"It's the start-up strength of the French I Cav Corps (Latour-Maubourg) in Leipzig Scenario that I don't agree with. They should be higher. "On the French Organization Display, I Cav Corps starts with 3 strength points (3,000 men) in Leipzig Scenario (beginning at 26-27 September). In Appendix of the Scenario Folder, page 40, there is a table--Strength of French Army at the End of September,1813, showing 1st Cav Corps strength at 6,000 men; all other cavalry units start-up strength is roughly the same as those in the above table." - David Chiu Working out the Orders of Battle for the French and other armies was a massive undertaking; it literally took months of research. Unlike the brief and decisive campaigns of earlier years, this one had huge armies made up of detachments from here and there. Since I no longer have my research files for Struggle of Nations, I refer you to, "Napoleon's Grande Armee of 1813," by Scott Bowden. (This book was not yet published in 1980 when the game was designed.) I thought it would be easy to look up the I Reserve Cavalry Corps and find the strength. However, this very exhaustive book doesn't give a strength for that date. This means that the strength must be calculated. But I simply can't devote the time to this at the moment. Anyone with a copy of the book will see that some brigades and regiments were detached from the main body of the corps. My guess is that the discrepancy in the strength (3,000 vs 6,000) is because part of the corps was detached at the end of September. The Corps had 6,480 men at Leipzig, so other troops had rejoined. I would be fascinated to see what sort of history of this corps could be worked out, given the numbers in the Struggle of Nations Study Folder, Napoleon at Leipzig, and the Bowden book. Back to OSG News June 1999 Table of Contents Back to OSG News List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 1999 by Operational Studies Group. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com