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Summon Yukari and ask for her aid.

It's a gamble, but it might just work.

Summon Demonbane

Stay on his feet.

I'd do this.

Have at least as much men as the enemy.

Am I playing blue?
Feign retreat, cannons hidden in woods.

>>9088861

you're forgetting about the Prussian cavalry.

>>9088879
My point was to run over them as they tried to stop all my army from advancing over that arrow I drew there

https://www.google.com/search?q=real+life+battle+cheats

Call in my Gensokyojin reinforcements.

>>9088861
Would Reille obey?

what the fuck does each symbol on the map mean

>>9088911
Solid boxes are infantry, diagonally-bisected ones are cavalry, cannon should be obvious.

>>9088888
So the plan is for the men to just pack up and leave and then 'run over' 7,000 Prussian cavalrymen like its some fucking rugby match?

full-blown retard

Save game and auto-resolve.

>>9088921
You don't get it, Bülow is going down a mountain and the other guy is stupid. Besides, I thought the numbers under the names made a total of something like three thousand horses? Totally doable, though.

If Steiner attacks everything will be alright.

I wouldn't be able to start considering this, or any kind of military maneuver.
At least half of those infantrymen would have to die. I would be ordering them to go and die. No, I would be ordering to go and die while killing as many enemies as possible.
How did generals cope with that shit?

>>9088946
Because you get to save yourself if you send the men to die correctly.

>>9088946
No man goes into battle expecting himself to die, just the man next to him.

Secondly, they're fighting for their country and families.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCsXLCRR3NQ

Just form a bunch squares, it seems to work pretty well.

>>9088818

that battle was impossible to win from every scenario. the moment Napoleon decided to go too far into Russia everything was lost.

Wear a different cravat.

Flank with artillery
But then again this is the old style war were everyone marched single file to die.

>>9088955
It's not about the soldier's morale. It's about the general's morals.
When you order a batallion to advance, you are basically telling a bunch of angry men to go die.
You have to be a tough son of a bitch to do that a few dozen times in a day.

>>9088934
And what about the English on the right flank?
They'd turn on your ass and you would be squashed between two armies.
The only way a plan like yours would work is if the English were completely frozen in place with nothing but toy guns.

You're a retard, case closed.

"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat" NOW MARCH MY MEN AND FOLLOW ME TO GLORY!!

tell my men to stop doing that "rules of war" bullshit.

seriously, how did europe manage to get men to follow proper rules for the annihilation of each other for several centuries?

>>9089053
"I'll put down my weapon if you put down your weapon first."
"No, you go first, then I'll drop my weapon, I promise."
Etc.

>Imagine you are in Napoleon's boots.
How am I going to change the events of the battle if I'm inside his boots?

>>9089053
When something happens often enough, some douchebags will decide it needs to be quantified and formalized and described and guidelined.

Look at ISO.

>What would you do to ensure victory in the battle of Waterloo /jp/?

I would have given command of the detachment sent after the Prussians to Marshal Davout rather than Grouchy. Davout would have been smart enough to rejoin the main body at Waterloo while preventing the Prussians from reinforcing Wellington, and Napoleon would have won.

>>9089061

uh, what?

>>9089087
I think his argument is that we need honourable agreements even between enemies otherwise neither side will get anywhere.

For example what would be the point in a ceasefire if one side then just shot the other?

>>9088986
Pretty much what this anon said. No matter how much I look at it, this battle set is absolutely awful for Blue.

You could try by weakening the enemy with the artillery, but the enemy has artillery to and has the higher ground, which means any attack he will make will be a lot more effective.

Overal I say it was pretty stupid to reach this position and going an a direct confrontation at this unfavorable odds.

The left flank seems to be the only weak and feasible way to push an assault, but it's already to late. Napoleon should have just retreated his main force from a position where they are just sitting ducks.

>>9089085
Davoust is in Paree.

pull back and wait for the other half of my army to finally meet up with me.

>>9089244
Yeah, I know Davout wasn't there, but was instead in the capital doing administrative crap that somebody else could've done. If Napoleon was going to roll the dice like that, he should have had his best man there.

>>9089365
He was there so the capital wouldn't revolt.

>>9089105
You seem to know what you're talking about so I'll ask, what drew Napoleon into that situation in the first place? After a certain point of advancing he must have recognized the shit position he was trenching himself in.

Pull back the right flank, maintain a front against a Prussian advance. Send a large wave of cavalry to bust through the Dutch and isolate them, circling around Merbraine to block off the cavalry group and menace that artillery formation. Have a second wave of cavalry bust the now mispositioned Dutch and continue crossways to attack Clinton's artillery group, while Reille advances forward towards them. Have the centre group along with the Imperial Guard advance as depicted, and break through and assist the cavalry. Have the right flank assemble along that centre road and cover the centre's advance from Picton's group and the Prussians.

How did I do?

>>9089444

Power hungry short man.

>>9088936
Mein Fuhrer... Steiner...

>>9088818
Outnumbered, outmaneuvered and outgunned? Fuck this shit. Pull the forces back and reform in a more strategic position, preferably in a tight, well covered area.

>What would you do

Not be French.

cool thread

>>9090874
My god dude I think I know what you are up too.

>>9090188
somehow I can't find the webcomic this image or similar ones originate from. Care to give me a link?

>>9090907
I don't know which, but it's a KC Green comic.

>>9088936
Steiner....Steiner's assault failed.

>>9088818
1)Retreat and cross the river.
2)Put spikes on both sides.
3)Shoot their artillery with my own.
4)Camp.

This is the best plan ever.

Empire:Total War multiplayer game, anyone?

>>9090936
- tfw I actually imagined the pieces in the images move ala Total War.
- and I lose every time.

WHERE IS GROUCHY?

>>9090942
I dived into Empire right after straight-as-fuck Rome and Medieval
boy was I surprised!

Anyway, it's my favorite TW game, sure the strategy is fucked up but tactical-wise it's the best TW game out there
even shitty AI isn't able to spoil it for me

>>9090942
The only way to win this in a Total War game would be to camphill and put your units on different heights so that you can have multiple units firing at the same time.
Also, it would neutralize the charge power of the cavalry.

Another way would be to put two units on the left flank to reinforce it, and use 3-4 units to gain advantage on the right flank, then win by surrounding the over units.

>>9090960
that's if you go defensive all the time

I often do battle setups that force me to attack, like giving myself no artillery etc

Also, Maratha Confederacy master race
swordsmen are actually useful on 18-century battlefield

>>9090974
My second solution would be the offensive one since it actually involve advancing and flanking.
Now, it's quite hard to go offensive against a superior force. Unless their weapons, training and moral is worse than yours, all your attempt at moving forward will be countered.
Not to mention that the enemy has a lot of cavalry, and you don't.

I never really got into the Total War games. Sure, it's how it played in history, but something about massed formations of dead men walking just didn't click with me, when I've always enjoyed fragmenting my units here there and everywhere...

>>9091011
wat

>>9091001
bitch please
if you only use the same generic basic tactic then no shit you can't defeat a stronger enemy

>>9089518
No one gives a shit about your essay unless you're some kind of genius tactician sent from the heavens. Draw on the fucking diagram in proper military notation.

>>9091011
u wot m8