Campaign Austerlitz

HPS Simulations is proud to announce the release of Campaign Austerlitz, a John Tiller game.

Introduction:

Grab your musket and backpack and join Napoleon's legions as they march into Swabia to encircle the unfortunate General Mack. Continue on down the valley of the Danube as you pursue General Kutusov and his Russian hordes as they attempt to evade your mighty army. Capture Vienna and press on to meet up with destiny on the fields of Austerlitz where Napoleon won his greatest victory. The Sun of Austerlitz has never shone brighter than now as you embark on your conquest of the forces of the Third Coalition.
Campaign Austerlitz continues the fine tradition of excellence found in all of the titles in the Napoleonic Campaign series. The solo gamer will delight to find over fifty scenarios specifically designed to give them a tough battle.
In development for over three years there is a depth of design not found in any other game on this topic. Campaigns include Ulm, Danube, Moravia, Italy, Austerlitz and even a hypothetical invasion of England. One campaign allows the players to play each of the historical scenarios. From Wertingen in October to each portion of the battle of Austerlitz the historical gamer will be in his glory as he attempts to defeat his foe on the same fields that saw the French rise to dominance in Europe.

Ride with Murat as he advances boldly against Kutusov at Schöngrabern or join up with Davout as he marches to destiny at Austerlitz.
Included are over 60 maps allowing the players to fight over the famous battlefields of 1805 as well as many in England.

Campaign Austerlitz contains many new features. Here is a summary of each:

• Dragoon cavalry which may dismount during battles and fire while mounted

• Weather line feature which allows damp weather to affect all fire

• Indirect fire ability for howitzers and licornes

• Abatis terrain type

• Trench terrain type

• Command ranges for corps, wing and army commanders

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  Minimum PC System Requirements:

  1GHz Pentium 256 MB RAM
  300 MB Hard Drive Windows 2000/ME/XP/Vista

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Scenario designers, take note of the main campaign maps included with this title.

   
   

Further information can be sourced from this thread at the Napoleonics' Wargaming Club. Note that the above thumbnails are not to a relative scale.
I resized them to fit 2 abreast on this page.

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I imagine that I am like a lot of people, in that I want to get cracking when it comes to playing a game like this; however, sometimes products like this one can contain some real gems.

In Campaign Austerlitz's case, it is the file:
Armies of 1805.pdf.

More information can be found here; like the above, this is another thread at NWC. To the left is an example; fair warning, though there are 58 pages of material, or about on par with what you'd get with a uniform reference.

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The Ulm and Austerlitz campaigns.

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Where to go to order the game:

HPS Simulations:
www.hpssims.com/Pages/products/NapBat/Ausertlitz/austerlitz.html

The latest patch at the HPS site.

Read more about fighting in the Napoleonic Period:

Napoleonic Wargame Analysis

Game design's bibliography:

Napoleon and Austerlitz: The Glory Years 1805 - Scott Bowden

Austerlitz: Napoleon and the Eagles of Europe - Ian Castle

The Campaigns of Napoleon - David G. Chandler

Napoleon's Finest: Davout and His III Corps, Combat Journal of Operations 1805-1807 - Scott Bowden

1805: Austerlitz - Robert Goetz

The Ulm Campaign: 1805 - F.N.Maude

Austerlitz: 1805 - Christopher Duffy

Napoleon's Conquest of Europe: The War of the Third Coalition - Frederick C. Schneid

A Year at War 1805: The Army of the Tsar - C. A. Sapherson

A Year at War 1805: The Armies of Austria - C. A. Sapherson

A Year at War 1805: The Armies of Prussia and Saxony - C. A. Sapherson

Austerlitz: The Empire at its Zenith - F. G. Hourtoulle

Austerlitz 1805: Battle of the Three Emperors - David G. Chandler

A Military History and Atlas of the Napoleonic Wars - Esposito/Elting

The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book - Digby Smith

Napoleon's Great Adversary: Archduke Charles and the Austrian Army 1792-1814 - Gunther Rothenberg

For further reading:

Austerlitz - Claude Manceron

A History of Cavalry - Z. Grbasic and V. Vyksic

Napoleon's Cavalry and its Leaders - David Johnson

Swords Against a Throne - John Elting

Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon - Rory Muir

With Musket, Cannon and Sword - Brent Nosworthy

19th Century accounts:

A Detailed Account of the Battle of Austerlitz - General Stutterheim (An Austrian contemporary's account).

Memoirs du Baron Thiebault (3 vols) - P.C.F Thiebault (a French brigade commander at the battle - 4th Corps/1st Division/2nd Brigade (36th and 43rd Line Rgts)