Reply To: Gaming Quatre Bras

[Norm S]

It may be fair to say that the game in effects starts and concludes as an automatic draw, as both sides wanted to support the Ligny battlefield and both found themselves pinned on a different battlefield, in effect cancelling out each others numbers. So what does that leave?

The situation did cause d’ Erlon to counter-march back and forth each day between the two battlefields, essentially denying both battlefields of his 20,000 troops, perhaps that could be factored in as a strategic consideration.

I would make the crossroads an objective, simply to give a focus to the battle, but perhaps having regard for the above, casualties matter as much as anything else.

If either side can get any units off board via the lateral road, perhaps that should be worth victory points, plus making this conditional to also controlling the crossroads at the moment of exit for bonus / bigger VP’s  might help drive the story and raise the significance of both crossroads and lateral road.