Castiglione 1796
History of the battle from the Castiglione Wikipedia Page.
This battle is played using V&B rules and 2mm armies from Stefano.
Battle Roster follows:
The initial troop dispositions must follow the historical settings, but battle plan is left to the generals, and reinforcements may arrive at different times.
Tutte le truppe sono di morale 4, salvo i granatieri che sono di 5, e le truppe di Mitrowsky che sono di seconda linea, morale 3.
Unit Labels
I have also made labels for playing using the VLB computer program.
Battle Maps
Scale on table is 25cm = 1km. One battalion in line of 500-600 men occupies about 200m. Troops move about 1m per hour on table.
Orders travel at a faster speed, but can be changed only by troops which have an active “Change of Situation”, new enemy threat or messages from other officers in their command chain.
Historical map
The French Army
- Army wagons and HQ in Castiglione. 25 cm long in march column.
- Despinois arriving from Brescia, from west during morning.
- Rest of french divisions move from Castiglione early morning.
- Line of communication is from Castiglione going west, towards Brescia.
- All divisions may put light troops out of the main battle line.
These are the units organized for VLB.
The Austrian Army
- HQ in Guidizzolo
- Wagons can be positioned anywhere close to troops. They are a 50 cm long column in march and travel all together (2 km for about 200 wagons). They can be split.
- Weidenfelt arriving from Peschiera, from north-east, during morning.
- Two redoubts battery-size, one in “monte” Medolano (5 metres high!), the other near Solferino.
- Meszaros will arrive in the afternoon from south-east.
- Bajalich and Vukassevich sieging Peschiera, 20km away, north-east.
- The rest of the austrian divisions can be between Solferino, Medola and Guidizzolo.
- Line of communications is the road toward the Mincio, leading east.
- Ligth troops present with Schubirz, Meszaros, Bajalich, Vukassevich.
These are the units organized for VLB.
