Blog note: Commands & Colors: Napoleonics – Eggmühl, 21-22 April, 1809 complete

 

Napoléon acclamé par les troupes bavaroises et wurtembergeoises
à Abensberg, le 20 avril 1809, by Jean-Baptiste Debret, a French
painter and student of David, who lived in Paris contemporaneously
to the event (Courtesy Wikimedia Commons).

The Eggmuhl Cycle* is the longest series of scenarios dedicated to a single battle in the Austrian Army expansion set (GMT Games, 2013)† for Commands & Colors: Napoleonics (GMT Games, 2010). It was only after we’d played the Eggmuhl, French Right scenario that I realised the battle was explored across five scenarios, and suggested we tackle all five (non-consecutively). This is why the scenarios appear out of sequence. 

Below is a table of links to the five scenario AARs in their proper order; that is, the order in which they appear in the C&C: Napoleonics - Austrian Army scenario book (pp. 18-22).

We’ve been enjoying playing through the Eggmühl scenarios so much, we’ve decided to look at other multi-scenario battles in other national army sets as well. Next off the rank will be a shorter Austrian scenario set, the Battle of Wagram. Wagram is a shorter sequence, so I’m going to take a different tack with that one, writing up the more manageable three scenarios in a single, extended post.

 

Eggmühl, Day 1, 21 April, 1809

Eggmühl, Day 2, Attack on Eggmühl, 22 April, 1809

Eggmühl, Day 2 (French Left), 22 April, 1809

Eggmühl, Day 2 (French Right), 22 April, 1809

Eggmühl, Day 2 (Alteglofsheim), 22 April, 1809

 

* The scenario sequence isn’t referred to this way, so far as I know, except here at A Fast Game. It’s just a shorthand tool for referencing the five-scenario sequence.

† I would be remiss of me not to mention that, while The Austrian Army is now out of print, An omnibus edition including this and two other national expansions, The Russian Army and The Prussian Army, is now available for preorder at the GMT P500 webpage.