One of our Grand Battles, storming the Great Redoubt…it’s a right ol’ duff up! Be there or regret it!
The might of the French Army and her allies engage the Goliath of the Russian Empire.
Month: December 2010
The most important engagement during the time of the Fifth Coalition, take the Grande Armee and their German and Italian allies , decide on the best strategy to defeat Archduke Charles Austrian army and bring the war to an end. One of the largest battles for the Austrians during the Napoleonic war, the attempted double envelopment nearly succeeding, until the French re-deployed. The amassed Grand Battery finally driving the Archdukes army into retreat. Will you succeed where the Archduke failed, change the deployment, re-invent the strategy and march to victory.
Or will you smash the Austrian army once and for all as one of the Marshals of France, Oudinot, Bernadotte, Soult, Davout or Massena to name a few!
Here is the second opportunity to take part in a firm favourite, defend the “Gross Garten” outside the city, or storm the Landsbach with the allied divisions! The supply depot must be taken!
Can you repeat the victory of the Duke of Marlborough over the Franco-Bavarian forces at Ramillies. In less than four hours, Villeroi’s army was utterly defeated. Marlborough’s subtle moves and changes in emphasis during the battle (something the French and Bavarian commanders failed to realise until it was too late) caught his foe in a tactical vice. Can you emulate the tactics of Marlborough, or escape the vice as one of Villerois divisional commanders?
The largest tank battle of World War II. Take control of the Liebstandarte Adolf Hitler or Totenkopf divisions and drive on to the rail head of Prokhorovka! You may see yourself as a commander in one of the many tank or motorised infantry formations defending the rail head.
For the Motherland!!!
Using the Island of Lobau as a spring board, can you take Lannes Corps and deliver the decisive blow to the Austrian army? Alternatively lead Massénas corps to glory, or succeed with the massed cuirassier divisions of Bessières against the infantry of Hohenzollern. The Austrians will need commanders with their wits about them, to assault and take the fortified Granary in Essling and defeat Massénas troops in Aspern. The game is afoot, can Napoleon win through, or can the Austrians complete the first defeat over the monster of Europe!