From RCVaughan
Watermarked PDF – $2.99 USD
A scenario for my grand-tactical American Civil War ruleset, Borrowing the Army. Please note, you will need the base game and its Napoleonic expansion to play this.
The 1806 Jena campaign is one of the masterpieces straight out of Napoleon's textbook. A surprise march from an unexpected direction, a day of crucial fighting, and then a country almost brought to its knees. True, Prussia wasn't entirely knocked out of the Fourth Coalition on the 14th October, but the twin battles of Jena and Auerstadt had them on the ropes. The rusty Prussian machine crushed by the French juggernaut.
But was it always going to happen this way? While Napoleon's advance was rapid through uplands and a forest, the battles were not a foregone conclusion. While old fashioned, the Prussian military did not roll over the moment the French appeared. Had Davout not fought so ferociously at Auerstadt, then the main Prussian force would still have been intact after a defeat at Jena, and the Duke of Brunswick's replacement could have fought a second engagement nearer Leipzig. Or perhaps the Prussians could have reacted faster and opposed a crossing of the Saale? Or maybe even fallen back east and united with the Russians?
As always, we are not playing just to repeat history but to challenge it, so what will you choose to do differently?