lutzen (may 2, 1813)
INTRODUCTION
The battle of Lutzen is the first battle of the May phase of the 1813
campaign.
HOUSE RULES
This scenario is a modified and reduced version of the shown in the
Blue Book of Napoleon's Battles (I don't own sufficient figures!) with
some personal modifications sased upon the Nazfiger book (Lutzen and
Bautzen, The spring campaign of 1813. The Emperor Press). The french
troops are the Ney's III Corps, the Guard, the MacDonald's XI Corps and
the Latour-Mauburg's first Cavalry Corps. The allied troops are the I
and II prussian corps (modified) and the russian Reserve Army (hordes
of grenadiers and guards!). The allied are deployed whereas the french
no. Napoleon is not initially at the table, and the allied C-i-C varies
according 1D10 (as in Blue Book): 1-4 is the Czar Alexander, and 5-10
is Wittgenstein. An aditional problem is that Tormasov (commanding the
russian Reserve Army) only will take orders from the Czar, so if this
last is not in control, Tormasov will always dice for control altough
he is inside the command radius of the russian C-i-C (...and he is a
5!)
TABLE-TOP ADAPTATION
| Lutzen pdf file |
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| Old map | Game map | |
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| The battlefield | ||
THE BATTLE IN PICTURES
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| III Corps is deploying | Near picture of 9/III arriving | ||
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| The Prussians and Russians attacking the cuadrilateral of villages at the center of the battlefield | |||
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| The French Guard arrives to battlefield and start deploying on the French right | But the Russian left is routed by the Old Guard | ||
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Massive Russian reinforcements arrive to battlefield. Napoleon concedes the day and retires His army | ||
| The battle can be considered as a very adjusted drawn or a minor French defeat because Napoleon was present | |||
| DRAW OR MINOR FRENCH DEFEAT | |||