JH01 Las Eras (15 June 1808)

JH01 Las Eras (15 June 1808)

A new scenario and designer
great!

Where is the Vassal savefile?

Here it is!

Fixed the Vassal setup, because it was not done as "observer" and it was only playable as French online

To all Vassal Scenario Desgingers:
Setup the game as "Observer" and rejoin 3-4 times from observer to observer again, before you save the setup final.
So the file can be used correct to play online

Well, we tried it today, but canceled it.
We don´t see any usefull tactical movements of French side.

The French are nearly outnumbered 100% of Units. Sure, the spanish have most weak MI, but this weakness is more than balanced because of the numbers of towns and other cover Terrain.

And if the French loose their only one ART, they can only Charge and loose

Maybe 5-6 less spanish Units and 7-8 less spanish cover terrain would help.
Or Keep the spanish number of Units and remove about 50% of the spanish cover Terrain.

Agreed.

The thing is, in this battle the militia ase supposed to represent massed volunteers, more than 10000 versus de 5000 strong French army. This does make it kind of un-winnable for the French (and maybe more historical because of that).

I have playtested vs myself a few times, and the French do run out of options as soon as they take significant losses. I think the answer would be to remove about seven of the Spanish MI, but what I wanted was for the town hexes to feel terribly inhospitable for the French player (in reality there was vicious combat in the streets, with people attacking and throwing all kinds of objects at the French from windows etc). This effect could be represented by making the French roll one die to see if they take a hit (XSW wouldn't count, but flags maybe should). I guess what I'm getting at is, in a nutshell, trying to reproduce urban (assymetrical) warfare in CCN.

As for the composition of the French force, it is intendedly not ideal for a city fight (only one ART but many CAV) because of historical circumstances.

If you think the above idea could fix the issues and the scenario is worth it, I will gladly patch it up and upload it here

Thanks for the input!

Any revise of the setup might be good, and the French CAV is useless in "City Fights", because of -3 dice

If you want, we can test any other setup also online on Vassal, an i am playing Spanish, maybe then you see what i meant, that the spanish setup is a big advantage

if anyone is still considering this scenario, my recommendations are;
1. Remove 15 militia units and 1 artillery from the Spanish
2. Add 6 Spanish Line units
3. All Spanish line unit start with 3 blocks
4. Add 6 Spanish garrison markers to Spanish setup
5. Remove 2 Spanish leaders
6. Reduce Victory banners to 6