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Offline Jemima Fawr

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The Combat of Pretzsch 1759 Scenario
« on: January 08, 2023, 11:01:13 AM »
I've got a modestly-sized Austrian v Prussian scenario (the Combat of Pretzsch, 29th October 1759) on my blog.  As well as the full scenario there's a small 'vignette' scenario, concentrating on the main action between Wunsch's Prussians and Arenberg's Austrians.

http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/2023/01/06/the-combat-of-pretzsch-29th-october-1759-a-scenario-for-tricorn/





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Offline wkeyser

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Re: The Combat of Pretzsch 1759 Scenario
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2023, 05:23:34 AM »
Love your scenarios. I think the historical notes are what make these scenarios stand out. A couple of questions about your maps what program do you us to create them and what is the grid size.  Would love to see a ground scale on the maps, it would make it really easy to use with other scales of figues and other rules.

But again great job.

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Re: The Combat of Pretzsch 1759 Scenario
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2023, 01:55:01 PM »
Thanks mate.  That's very kind of you.  I use MS Powerpoint to create the maps.  I find it very easy to manipulate lines, shapes, groups of objects, etc, using that program and I'm confident that a version of it will always be available for the foreseeable future, so the files will hopefully never become obsolete and uneditable. 

Sorry, I keep forgetting to say that the grids represent 1 foot of table space when using 60-80mm frontage per battalion.  The original 'Shako' rules never actually said what the ground-scale was, so I base it on four battalions' frontage per foot.  I've played a lot of historical scenarios where it's impossible to fit the historical deployment for formations into the allocated space, so I find that basing scenarios on the historical formation frontage works better than working from an exact ground-scale (which is a good job, as so many maps come without a printed scale).

 

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