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A complete introductory battle based on V11.1 Beta: ready-made armies, battlefield map, worked examples, and an eight-turn teaching scenario. Updated 19 October 2026: fire at Mo…
Companion reference for the V11.1 starter battle, updated 19 October 2026 with the revised fire results. Covers orders, movement, fire, reactions, shock, morale, Rally, and vict…
The complete V11.1 Beta starter package: 17-page Starter Rules and three-page Starter Quick Reference. The ZIP contains PDF files only. Updated 19 October 2026; the teaching sce…
Updated 19 October 2026 with the revised fire results; Shock Combat is unchanged. Full V11.1 Beta reference tables covering command, movement, fire, charges, skirmishers, morale…
The complete brigade- and division-scale Napoleonic rules. Fire revision dated 19 October 2026: MoS +5 or more causes a half-move retreat and two Disorder Markers, with normal t…
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1740 · October 20
France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction, and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.
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2 December 1805 · Moravia
Napoleon’s most celebrated victory was not magic. It was a calculated risk, an Allied command failure, and a violent contest whose outcome remained uncertain longer than the legend suggests.
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