Quickie Napoleonic Knockout

Now that I have a bunch of counter armies, I want to get them all into action. I've been pondering the problem and came up with a solution - a quick-play knockout campaign.

I got the idea for a knockout campaign from Kaptain Kobold.

The Map

I created a campaign map with 6 powers - Britain, France, Prussia, Austria, Russia, and Turkey.

The map itself came from https://www.euratlas.net/history/europe/1800/index.html. I just added circles representing the nations and pathways between them.

The Armies

Rather than generic armies, I decided to use army lists specific for each nation. I decided that each army would consist of 5 units, which I determined semi-randomly. 

Creating the Army Lists

Here is how I created the armies.

• I assigned 2 units of muskets to each army.
• I consulted the army lists from Chris Engle's Fusilier (now combined with Ritter) and subtracted 4 muskets from each list. This leaves 6 possible units.
• I created a random table using the 6 units.
• I rolled a D6 three times to randomly select 3 more units for each army.

For example, the Napoleonic French list is 1 skirmisher, 6 muskets, 1 artillery, 1 cavalry, and 1 knight (e.g. cuirassiers). This results in a random table of 1= skirmisher, 2-3 = musket, 4 = artillery, 5 = cavalry, and 6 = knight. If I rolled a 1, 3, and 6 I'd add 1 skirmisher, 1 musket, and 1 knight unit to the base 2 musket units.

I re-rolled if I got extreme results. For example, I initially rolled 3 cavalry for the Prussians. It just did not seem right so I rolled again and got the result shown below.

Army Compositions

Here are the armies. I will keep the same compositions for each battle.

• British - 3 infantry (i.e. musket), 1 cavalry, 1 light infantry (i.e. skirmishers)
• French - 3 infantry, 1 light infantry, 1 artillery
• Prussians - 4 infantry, 1 cavalry
• Russians - 3 infantry, 1 cavalry, 1 artillery
• Austrians - 3 infantry, 1 cavalry, 1 light infantry
• Turks - 2 infantry, 2 cavalry, 1 artillery

Army Stats

In addition, Ritter provides additional stats per army - Move, Killing Attacks, and Break Point. I used these to create additional nuances for each army.

• Move became a modifier to the activation role. The French (unsurprisingly) had a better than average Move so I gave them a +1 modifier. The Turks were below average so they get a -1.
• Similarly, the French had better than average Killing Attacks and Turks below average. To reflect these, I bumped a unit of French infantry to elite status and lowered a Turkish infantry unit to militia status.
• I used the Break Points as is. The French and British have a Break Point of 3 units while the remaining armies have a BP of 2.

So now the campaign is ready. Stay tuned for the first battle!