Players of these other sets might also be attracted to a scenario book, so your potential market is broader than the customer base of your rules.
It would be interesting to see if a general selection was favoured or campaign specific i.e.
1806
1809
Russia
Peninsular
100 Days
etc
This is exactly what we have done with our ESR Campaign Guide Series. Our Campaign Guides are designed to be used with nearly any Napoleonic rule system. Time is given in time, not turns, our maps are in scale miles, not table feet scaled to any particular game system. The orders of battle provide detail down to the number of battalions of infantry, companies of specialists, squadron groups of cavalry, and artillery batteries; including number and type of guns.
To make life as easy as possible for wargamers, we host a Conversion page on our website which will let players convert the Commander the Unit ratings to any one of nearly two dozen different Napoleonic game systems – including Revolution to Empire. We routinely add support for additional systems to this Conversion guide to help ensure that no matter what game system you favor, you can benefit from our ESR Campaign Guides.
We currently offer ESR Campaign Guides for:
• 1805-1 covers from Wertingen through Austerlitz in Roll up that Map
• 1809-1 covers from Teugen-Hausen through Aspern-Essling in The First Battle Lost
• 1812-1 covers from Mir through Borodino in Master of the World
• 1813-1 covers from 1st Möckern through 1st Kulm in We shall meet in Vienna
• 1814-1 covers from Hoogstraten through Vauchamps in The most awful situation
• Iberia-1 covers from Medina de Rióseco through Coruña in To Assure My Dynasty
Each ESR Campaign Guide is built around a historical campaign. The scenarios are provided in sequence, with a campaign framework for those who wish to play them as linked battles that determine the outcome of a larger game.
Each scenario is presented in a clear and easy to use format:
• The Host Briefing: This gives a general historical context of what brought the two armies to this battle, a map that details the starting areas and arrival locations of all troops involved, an expectation for the scenario's duration and difficulty, the number of recommended players, and any special rules or conditions that apply.
• The French Briefing: This is designed to be shown only to the French player(s) and gives a brief historical context of what the French knew coming into the engagement, a map based only on the French intelligence, the French victory conditions for the scenario, and the terrain conditions. Capped off with the French order of battle.
• The Allied Briefing: This is designed to be shown only to the Allied player(s) and gives a brief historical context of what the Allies knew coming into the engagement, a map based only on the Allied intelligence, the Allied victory conditions for the scenario, and the terrain conditions. Ending with the Allied order of battle.
For battles where two portions of an Army are separated and have no communication or coordination; such as 1st Kulm, or Montmirail; we provide an additional briefing for the separated Army, so that it confronts the situation with only what the historical counterpart knew at the time.
Large engagements such as Austerlitz or Borodino are not broken into several different scenarios, but offered as single, large actions. We trust that players who wish to only fight a portion of such a big scenario are well capable of subdividing them and we try to ensure our maps, organizational tables, and the like do not get in the way of such efforts.
A unique feature of our ESR Campaign Guides is that each one includes between several hundred and over a thousand uniform plates. We aim to include every unit that is involved in any of the scenarios. Therefore, if you want to play the Battle of Dürenstein in 1805, but you need to paint up the Russian Vyatka Musketeer Regiment, you can simply open the included Uniform Guide to the appropriate page and fine them front and center:
-TWC
thewargamingcompany.com
