"First Battle of Komarom (1849)" Topic

I have researched the first battle of Komarom (1849), from the Hungarian War of Independence, and written a "Bloody Big Battles!" scenario for it. This was a lot of fun to research and should make for a great tabletop wargame with loads of manoeuvre. The scenario is in the files of the BBB Yahoo group:
link
and also posted in Flickr:
flic.kr/p/WymNfW

Chris

Bloody Big BATTLES!
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Its a very interesting war and campaign, and it is very positive that you highligth it. I know that it is at a very high scale that you game, but have you any thougths on whether it is a bare plain or an area with grass in Hungary.
All pictures i have seen is open terrain, and i have a suspicion that it is so. Since Hungary, slovakia and austria around Wienna is open terrain now without hedges etc. But if you compare northern italy battlefields from the nap wars where it is very open to 1848 were silkproduction and rice made huge hedges and small woods. Any thougths?

Hornblaeser, thanks for the question. In his memoir, Gorgey describes the terrain on the Hungarian right as undulating ground covered only by vineyards (I need to add some by the Monostor) and isolated fruit trees; and the south as open ground. The Austrian military survey map 1806-1869 confirms this. Pusztas are open grazing. Gorgey and Banlaky both refer to the Austrians retreating to high(er) ground but these 'heights' are very gentle indeed and not significant at BBB scale.

Chris