NAP SCENARIO: LUTZEN 2nd MAY 1813

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Following the disaster of Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812, a new Coalition formed against him. In response to this, Napoleon hastily assembled an army of just over 200,000 consisting largely of inexperienced, barely trained recruits and severely short of horses.  He crossed the Rhine into Germany to link up with remnants of his old Grande Armée, and to quickly defeat this new alliance before it became too strong. On April 30 Napoleon crossed the river Saale, advancing on Leipzig in three columns led by an advanced guard. His intention was to work his way into the Coalition's interior lines, dividing their forces and defeating them in detail before they could combine. But due to inexperienced cavalrymen and faulty reconnaissance, he was unaware of 73,000 allied troops under Wittgenstein and Blücher concentrating on his right flank to the south. Marshal Ney's corps was surprised and attacked on the road from Lützen to Leipzig.

Napoleon was visiting the 1632 battlefield, playing tour guide with his staff by pointing to the sites and describing the events of 1632, when he heard the sound of cannons. He immediately cut the tour short and rode off towards the direction of the artillery fire. Arriving on the scene he ordered the Marshal to make a fighting withdrawal towards Lützen. Meanwhile he sent Ney reinforcements which would take up strong, defensive positions in and around the villages south of the town. Once these divisions had held the allied attack Napoleon, leading the reserves would come around the allied flank and counterattack.

Overall situation map - from wikipedia
Wittgenstein and Blücher continued to press Ney until they ran into the "hook" Napoleon had prepared. Once their advance had halted, with the perfect timing of old, he struck. While he had been reinforcing Ney, he had also concentrated a great mass of artillery (Grande Batterie) that unleashed a devastating barrage towards Wittgenstein's center. Then Napoleon himself, along with his Imperial Guard, led the massive counter assault into the allied flank. Wittgenstein and Blücher were in danger of suffering another defeat on the scale of Austerlitz, but the green and exhausted French troops, who had been marching and fighting all day long, could not follow through. In addition, darkness was closing in as night approached. This allowed the allied force to retreat in good order. The lack of French cavalry meant there would be no pursuit. Napoleon lost 19,655 men killed and wounded, while the Prussians lost 8,500 and the Russians 3,500 killed, wounded and missing.  But casualties aside, by nightfall Wittgenstein and Blücher were in retreat while Napoleon controlled Lützen and the field.

OUTLINE OF SCENARIO
For the design of this game each historical division becomes a Black Powder brigade.  I have changed the arrival points of some of the French reinforcements to spread the action further across the table so that it is easier for all the players.  Each side has 3 command levels - Brigade, Corps and the CinC. So some of the commanders of the small Russian Corps are not represented.  The allied Corps commanders are Blucher, Yorck, Wizingerode and Grand Duke Constantine.
The French have 2 brigades deployed on the table at the beginning of the game with a local reserve of 5 brigades marching onto the table.  They have a further 6 brigades distant reserve including the Guard and the Emperor himself.
The allied Prussians and Russians have an initial attack force of  12 brigades, 3 on table at the beginning with another 9 appearing over the first 3 to 4 turns,  and a further 11 in distant reserve.
Most of the French infantry were very poor quality often untrained and unfit and the troop ratings for the game have been modified to reflect this.

The game map
GAME NOTES

Troop Ratings
To simplify the game we used the normal Napoleonic troop ratings but with the following changes.
All infantry have “must form square” rule.
Russian, Prussian and Old Guard infantry have stamina of 4 and morale of 3+ but no other special rules.
Russian infantry are STOIC - so can re-roll first break test.  Russian line infantry are POOR SHOTS and get -1 to shooting.
French Guard infantry are RELIABLE when in attack column. 
French line infantry have morale of 5+.
French Marie Louises also have 5 hand to hand dice, are POOR SHOTS I.e. -1 to shooting and LEVY 3+ I.e. must score 3 or more to recover disorder at end of their turn.
French line infantry and artillery can never get a +1/+2 for march columns on roads.
To simplify this big game no mixed formations are allowed I.e. units with skirmishers thrown out.
All the units were counted as BP standard sized units.

Formations
The French reinforcements should arrive in march columns coming down the entry roads (battalion by battalion) so it will take a couple of moves for a complete command to come on.
The allies had taken hours forming up before they moved of - so can come on deployed across a front already in attack columns and/or lines.

Command Ratings
French command starts at 7 and then increases to 8 on arrival of  Ney.
Allied command is 8.
Napoleon is a level 9 commander and increases the rating of any French generals with 24” range to 9.
Blucher has the ‘Marschall Vorwats’ rule - automatically succeeds when he rallies a unit and recovers D3 hits except the last one of course.

Time
Each move is 30 minutes.  Game starts at 11:30 and ends at 20:00

House Rules
We used our usual House Rules but in addition changed the rules for built up areas as the villages changed hands repeatedly in this battle.
Built Up Areas
Provide cover
+1 Morale save
+2 Combat result modifier

We also tried a version of the Broken Brigade rule from Pike and Shot simplified on the day to the following:
Broken Brigades
A brigade is deemed broken if at the start of a turn more than half of its units (ignoring guns) are lost.
A unit is lost if:
a) it has been destroyed
b) it is shaken
Effect on units in broken brigades:
1) Units that have already left the table cannot return.
2) Shaken units within 12” of the enemy must retire except if occupying buildings, defences or in square.
3) Shaken units are allowed to make a free single retire move even if disordered. Guns that do so are abandoned.
4) Unshaken units in a broken brigade can be given normal orders.

ORDERS OF BATTLE AND DEPLOYMENT

ARMY OF THE MAIN - NAPOLEON      
III ARMY CORPS NEY       
8TH INF DIV SOUHAM*         6 BTN AND 1 FT GUN 
10TH INF DIV GIRARD*          6 BTN# AND 1 FT GUN 
CORPS CAV *                           LA, HU AND 1 HS GUN 
THESE ARE DEPLOYED ON TABLE AT BEGINNING*
9TH INF DIV  BRENIER            6 BTN AND 1 FT GUN 
11TH INF DIV RICARD            6 BTN AND 1 FT GUN 
39TH INF DIV MARCHAND    4 BTN# AND 1 FT GUN

VI ARMY CORPS MARMONT       
20th INF DIV COMPANS         4 BTN AND 1 FT GUN 
21st INF DIV BONET                4 BTN AND 1 FT GUN 
22nd INF DIV FRIEDERICHS   4 BTN# AND 1 FT GUN

ARMY RESERVE  MORTIER
OLD GUARD DIV                      4 BTN AND 2 HVY GUN  
YNG GUARD DIV                      6 BTN AND 2 HVY GUN 

GD CAV DIV   1                          HG, DRG AND 1 HS GUN 
 “   2                                              LA, CHaCH AND 1 HS GUN
IV ARMY CORPS BERTRAND !
12TH INF DIV MORAND          4 BTN# AND 1 FT GUN 

XI ARMY CORPS MCDONALD !
31ST INF DIV FRESSINET        4 BTN# AND 1 FT GUN 
1ST CAV CORPS  LATOUR MAUBOURG
1ST CAV DIV                             2 CUIR AND 1 HS GUN 
2ND CAV DIV                            DRG, HU
      
NOTES
# MARIE LOUISES
! CORPS COMMANDERS NOT PRESENT

FRENCH DEPLOYMENT
At commencement of hostilities (11:30 AM)
8th Division, III Corps near Gross Gorschen.
III Corps Cavalry northeast of Gross Gorschen.
10th Division, III Corps near Starsiedel.
9th Division, III Corps on the road near Eisdorf at table edge.
11th Division, III Corps stacked up behind 9th Division.
VI Corps (Marmont) at table edge on road from Lutzen stacked up division behind division.

FRENCH REINFORCEMENTS - EXPECTED ARRIVAL TIMES
12:30 Marechal Ney on the road from Lutzen
14:00 Napoleon with the Guard Cavalry on the road from Lutzen
15:00 IV Corps at table edge in rear of Starsiedel
16:00 Guard Infantry and Artillery on the road from Lutzen
16:00 XI Corps at Meyhen.
16:30 39th Division, III Corps on road in rear of Eisdorf.
17:00 I Cavalry Corps on table edge 

ALLIED ARMY WITTGENSTEIN
AVANT GARD KARPOV*                  4 COSSACK REGTS AND 1 HS GUN
 
PRUSSIAN I CORPS BLUCHER
1st PR INF BRIG Von Klux*                4 BTN AND HVY, FT GUN
2nd PR INF BRIG Von Ziethen*           4 BTN AND HVY, FT GUN
 *THESE ARE DEPLOYED ON TABLE AT BEGINNING

3rd PR INF BRIG Von Roder              4 GD BTN AND HVY, FT GUN
I Pr Cps CAV  Von Mutius                  HU, LA AND 1 HS GUN 
Pr CAV Division Von Dolffs                 2 DR AND 1 HS GUN 

PRUSSIAN II CORPS YORK
4th INF BRIG  Hunerbein                    4 BTN AND HVY, FT GUN
5th INF BRIG  Horn                            4 BTN AND HVY, FT GUN
II Cps CAV  Von Steinmetz                 2 HU AND 1 HS GUN 

RUSSIAN 1ST ARMY  CORPS WINZINGERODE
1st INF CORPS BERG  
 “  1        Luknov                                3 BTN AND HVY GUN 
 “   2       Kasachovski                        3 BTN AND FT GUN 
2ND INF CORPS EUGEN  
 “  1        Shachavskoi                        3 BTN AND HVY GUN 
 “   2       Pychnitski                            3 BTN AND FT GUN 
RU CAV CPS  TRUVELTSKOI
       “               1 Lanskoi                   2 HU AND 1 HS GUN 
       “               2 Panchou                  DR, LA AND 1 HS GUN 
       “               3 Obolenski               2 COSS AND 1 HS GUN 

RUSSIAN RESERVE ARMY CORPS GD CONSTANTINE PAVLOVICH
GREN DIV  KONOVNITZIN
 “  1        Sulima                               3 BTN AND HVY GUN 
 “  2        Zwileniev                           3 BTN AND FT GUN 
GUARD DIV  LAVROV
 “  1        Rosen                               3 BTN AND HVY GUN 
 “  2        Udom                               3 BTN AND FT GUN 
GD CAV Div  Schewitch                DR, HU, GD COSS AND 1 HS GUN
CUIRASSIER CORPS  GALITZIN
1ST    Depradov                             2 CU REGTS AND 1 HS GUN
2ND    Duka                                   2 CU REGTS AND 1 HS GUN

ALLIED DEPLOYMENT NOTES
At commencement of hostilities (11:30 AM)

Davidov's Advanced Guard on table anywhere on south table edge.
Blucher’s Corps
Von Ziethen and Von Klux’s brigades on table on the Monarchenhugel. 
Attempting to march onto the table at the Monarchenhugel Von Roder and Von Mutius’ brigades.

ALLIED REINFORCEMENTS
Dolff’s Cavalry arrives turn after Von Mutius has got onto the table
Yorck’s Corps deployed behind Blucher. (Historical)   No element of this command can enter until the turn after all of Bluchers troops are on table. 
Truveltskoi’s Division arrives turn after Dolffs has got onto the table.
14:00  Eugen Corps
14:30   Berg Corps
15:00  Grenadier Division & 1st Cuirassier Division
15:30  Guard Division & 2nd Cuirassier Division
17:30  Guard Cavalry

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