| MichaelCollinsHimself | 05 Mar 2014 12:48 a.m. PST |
If Ney and Mack had swapped jobs in about August 1805, how do you think either of them would have fared? |
| CamelCase | 05 Mar 2014 10:45 a.m. PST |
Don't see Ney waiting nervously for the enemy around a river bank. |
| M C MonkeyDew | 05 Mar 2014 12:09 p.m. PST |
Ney and Mack had very different flaws. The switch may well have evened things up, or even skewed them in the other direction, |
| The Traveling Turk | 05 Mar 2014 12:27 p.m. PST |
This game has potential. Next up: switch Pauline Bonaparte with the Freiherr vom Stein. Prussian reformers in the nude! Chubby, large-nosed middle-aged men playing footsie under a banquet table! |
| M C MonkeyDew | 05 Mar 2014 12:29 p.m. PST |
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| vtsaogames | 05 Mar 2014 12:30 p.m. PST |
Mack would have held the French advance guard back while he ensured that strategic points were occupied. Ney would either have attacked him or fallen back, deploying rearguard ambushes as he went, maybe both. The more or less intact Austrian army would meet up with the Russians. That's hysterical, Sam. |
| The Traveling Turk | 05 Mar 2014 12:31 p.m. PST |
Some of the characters of this period are so multi-faceted that they could switch with themselves: Talleyrand version 2.3 switches with Talleyrand version 3.11. Jérôme Bonaparte switches with Fouché: "Your name is probably on this arrest list, but the list is much too long for me to bother reading, and I sort of enjoy your company in any event, so let's just get wasted instead!" "Did you see the  on that girl?" — Yes, she's using it to conceal something, I'm sure. I've already filed a report. |
| Musketier | 06 Mar 2014 9:21 a.m. PST |
Yes, "switch Pauline Bonaparte with the Freiherr vom Stein." Greatly improving the scenery of 19th C Prussian parks and buildings featuring busts of v.Stein… Who knows, that sort of environment might even have redirected the energies of the Kaiser and some of his advisers? |
| MichaelCollinsHimself | 06 Mar 2014 11:14 a.m. PST |
the OP came from here: TMP link and in particular these remarks…. "I can say I think Davout was "awesome" and Mack was "pinhead" but when we play the game what is the difference between Ney and Mack and what historical basis for those mechanics is there?" and
"We can apply this logic to commanders. I suspect even poor Mack was a better battlefield commander than I, as I lack even the fundamentals of commanding an army.
So does that make Mack the baseline?" |
| M C MonkeyDew | 12 Mar 2014 10:37 a.m. PST |
Yes. No negatives, only plusses : ) |
| MarescialloDiCampo | 20 Mar 2014 10:30 a.m. PST |
What about the Neapolitan Army commanders? and Murat? |
| MarescialloDiCampo | 20 Mar 2014 10:30 a.m. PST |
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| SHaT1984 | 06 Jun 2021 4:49 p.m. PST |
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====== This game has potential. Blast from the past, mildly amusing, I'm sure we can do better now… |
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