"Snappy Nappy Campaign: Sunday April 19, Manchester CT" Topic

We are pleased to announce that Snap Con VIII, the next Campaign in a Day event, using the Snappy Nappy rules by Russ Lockwood, will take place on Sunday April, 19th, 2020. This year's game will be based upon the "Crisis on the Danube", the famous 1809 campaign in Bavaria. The event will once again be held at the excellent gaming space and store, The Portal, in Manchester CT, from 10 AM – 5 PM. As in the past there is no charge for playing in this event, which will once again feature as many as 16 different tables, many hundreds of wargames figures, and as many as 20 or more players, each commanding an Army Corps or Division(s).

Situation as of April 20, 2009; we will be playing almost exactly 211 years later!

With Napoleon and the bulk of the French Army tied up in Spain during 1808, the Austrians planned to attack in Bavaria, one the French Allied states of the Confederation of the Rhine. Taking advantage of the absence of the Emperor and many of the veterans of the French Grande Armee, they hoped that the rest of Germany would rise in revolt against the French, and possibly to persuade Prussia to join the conflict.

Emperor Napoleon addressing the troops of his Bavarian ally at Abensburg.

Despite Napoleon being well aware of Austrian plans, he delayed his departure from Paris as long as possible to avoid accelerating events. Left to exercise greater judgement than he was accustomed to, Marechal Berthier, Napoleon's Chief of staff and nominal Army commander in the Emperor's absence, misunderstood the endless stream of instructions emanating from France, and wound up spreading his troop in a dangerously dispersed fashion. When the Austrians, led by Archduke Charles (Erzherzog Karl in German) attack came sooner than Napoleon had anticipated, they had a real opportunity to defeat the French in detail, setting the stage for one of the most fascinating campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars.

Erzherzog Karl, one of Napoleon's ablest opponents, who would later hand Napoleon his first unequivocal defeat at the later battle of Aspern – Essling in May of 1809.

Interested players should contact me as soon as possible regarding their participation and preferences as to Austrian or French/Allied. As always, we especially need one player each to be the Commander in Chief for each side… a Napoleon and a Karl! The players will be assigned their final commands in the week or so prior to the event, allowing them to collaborate to establish their plans for the campaign beforehand. There are sure to be a twist or two from the strictly historical to keep everyone a bit off balance… just as the historical generals were!

Planned Commands (some larger formations will likely be split among 2 or more players depending upon the number of participants, especially Davout)

FRENCH

Napoleon, Davout, Oudinot, Lefebvre, Massena, Lannes, Vandamme, Rouyer

AUSTRIAN

Archduke Charles, Belegarde, Kolowrath, Hohenzollern, Rosenberg, Ludwig, Hiller, Liechtenstein, Hofer

** Note that present plans call for running a different variation of the same event Thursday July 8 at Historicon in Lancaster, PA, later this year.

For more information, or if interested in participating: contact me – Gonsalvo AT aol DOT com

See my blog for this and previous Campaign in a Day events at:

link

Peter

We the Stipcitz (stippies) Huaars from flanders are fighting a very similar early 1809 campaign at this moment. The austrians seem to be wel organised and are about give Davout (me) a very hard time. We used our own rules called Refight that focussen on grand tactical level and uses stanard plates wit a 48 men ing unit that can represent any thing from a very strong reigment over the more usual brigade to a very weark division, point given indicate their fighting strenght. Rules are kept fairly simple and move quite fast. Now we do hope to defeat "autrechiens"

In Snappy Nappy, players are (usually) corp commanders, with each infantry and cavalry unit consisting of two stands and representing a brigade. One artillery stand represents about 24 guns. We've had 15 to 20 players per game across a dozen to 16 tables, so the scale is big so you can fight a 'Campaign in a Day.'

Peter runs the Blunders on the Danube blog, and all the Snappy Nappy Campaigns in a Day games are written up there (including OOBs, maps, and special scenario rules, etc). Worth a look. Includes copies of the Quick Reference Sheet for you to download. The link:

Snappy Nappy Campaigns in a Day

I umpired the 2019 Campaign in a Day -- 1814 Campaign. My After Action reports is here:

1814 Campaign

Would love to participate in this! Wrong side of the continent. :(

Some day I will attend one, it is on my bucket list.

If you have Snappy Nappy rule questions:

After Yahoo terminated their groups, the Snappy Nappy group moved to IO:

groups.io/g/SnappyNappy

Files were lost, but some were saved. I use the daily summary option to monitor this site to answer questions about Snappy Nappy.

@dathfozzywig – Why not plan a trip to Historicon in July?

@Greenknight4 (Chris) – we have several players who drive to Manchester from new Hampshire each year, and of course Historicon in Lancaster is well worth the drive, too!

Peter

Why not plan a trip to Historicon in July?

Would love to, but just can't swing it this year. :(

Can't wait to see pics and a full report!