"Featherstone's FPW campaign, Help needed!" Topic

I just started buying, reading and appreciating the old Featherstone books, republished by John Curry.

Unfortunately I need some help in understanding the FPW-campaign in Featherstones Wargaming Campaigns (pp. 83-84).
I don't understand the arrangement of the battles in conjunction with the terms "centre battles" and "middle battles of the war" – the pictured arrangement doesn't make it clear to me.

The three armies and their area of operations – how are they defined? Along the columns of the shown battlefield-arrangements? What happens, if a loosing army retreats "sideways" into an other column/other armies AOO?

And last but not least, how does the "fighting through an interrupting force" work? Would somebody be so kind and send me one or two examples?!

Maybe the answers are clear to you, and I just lack either the knowledge of special mechanics that are considered to be known or it's just the language barrier – stopping me as a German to fully understand the details.

Regards,
brisko

Brisko,

I don't think people are ignoring your post, just that they have not got any better answers than you.

I have looked at the chapter without coming up with an answer.

All I can say is that Donald Featherstones rules were always changing and evolving and it can be confusing. His writing offers a 'snapshot' of the game it doesn't include all the details off camera or what happened before or after.

I would suggest just taking your best guess at what makes sense at the time. At least no one can say you are wrong.

Thank you, John.
:-D

I will follow your suggestion and try things out when I am back from my businesstrip.

Maybe somebody still comes up with a suggestion or two?!