Waterloo: "I have never felt so emotionally immersed in a game!"

[ChrisBBB]

Back at Waterloo again! How many times could we all refight this battle? Here's how it went for us this time:
https://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.com/2023/07/waterloo-i-have-never-felt-so.html

(Maybe this helps to answer Bellerophon's question in this previous thread?)
https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=141987.0

[jon_1066]

Nice report, looks like a fun battle.  It wasn't entirely clear in the report with the reference to the grand battery and La Haye Saint but in the actual battle it is located in a depression so could not be targeted by the French artillery.  This is partly what made it so hard to capture.  Did your scenario reflect this or did the artillery batter the defenders of it into submission?  I guess at this kind of scale you could justify it in terms of driving away supporting troops and ammunition resupply (which did for them in the actual battle) as opposed to directly smashing the buildings and troops therein.

[ChrisBBB]

Thanks for your kind words, Jon.

LHS wasn't invisible to guns but it did depend where they were deployed. As the map here shows
https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/battle-waterloo
there's a small ridge right in front of it where the French actually posted a couple of batteries, but most were on the larger ridges behind that and no doubt couldn't see LHS.

At this scale of game there is necessarily some abstraction both of units and locations, as you suggest, and of terrain. Our game portrays both ridges. We had some on the southern one that couldn't see LHS but most were well forward (where they suffered from vigorous Allied counterbattery fire) and some did soften up LHS. But they were primarily concerned about driving off the enemy guns anyway.