Saturday, July 19, 2025

La manoeuver sur les derrieres - active map

 

map from Dr D. Chandler

This strategy, implemented dozens of times by Napoleonic armies, forms the basis for many 'operational depth' attack plans.  From the WWI original German attack to the 'cauldron' that was the focus point of bewegungskrieg plans used in WWII and the Operation Desert Storm used in Iraq in 1991.

I have taken a bit of time to generate a little video exploring the basic aspects of this stratagem.


How have you incorporated such a strategy into your games?

4 comments:

Phil Dutré said...

Nice video. Did you use some AI tool to turn the map in a cartoonish style?

Phil Dutré said...

As for the strategy ... it seems abit puzzling why Red didn;t also defend the southern banks of the river.

MurdocK said...

I have used an app called clip 2 comic to render some photos in an animated style.

MurdocK said...

this is an 'ideal' situation, likely only happening in the first 6-8 times Bonaparte used it

you can see it attempted clearly at Wagram, where yes, the 'red' Austrians did have the river covered, yet the observation force was not large enough to do anything about the crossing in force, and again it was a defeat (though closely contested) by 'red' Austria.