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 | |||