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From: military@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker)
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Subject: submission: sci.military
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Date: 5 Jun 89 02:43:23 GMT
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From: homxc!11366ns (Nicholas J Sauer +1 201 949 7076)



     I recently purchased a copy of GDW's old System 7 Napoleonics and
the associated sets of counters.  I like the game very much and would 
like to play it, but need some help.  The game doesn't give you any 
maps or senarios to set up battles with.  So, I need a source that would
be able to give me the following: 
     1) I need to build my own maps so I need moderately detailed maps of
one or more battlefields of the Napoleonic wars.  The game scale is one 
inch equals 40 yards, and one contour line is 10 feet in height, so the 
maps have to be pretty detailed.  Perhaps there is another game with a 
similar scale?
     2) I need to set up my own battle senarios.  One counter is 
approximately one company.  I would assume that this means I will only 
be setting up small parts of larger battles.  So, I guess I'm looking 
for something that gives company level orders of battle for one or more 
of the battles.  
     3) Some details on the actual units provided is a little sketchy.  
I need information on which companies are organized into two rank and 
three rank lines.  I also need to know which artillery batteries are 
light or heavy artillery batteries (I imagine this probably changed 
throughout the wars).  
     Well, that's it.  I guess I should mention that I am new to the 
Napoleonic Wars as well, so a book detailing the history would be nice 
also.  I hope there are some Napoleonics experts out there who could 
help me.  Thanks in advance.  

Nick Sauer