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- 9/22/2003 3:09:06 PM

Forward_March

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The original FOW was fine. There can be no "complete FOW". That would call for every boarder to be lined with men, something which armies weren't able to do back then. Will there be garrison towns in every land area?
Napoleon, in 1812, had a general, and pretty good ideas about where (and how powerful) Ivan was. He knew pretty well where Wellington and Blucher were, too. He knew where Bennigsen was, as well...but nobody expected an attack in winter quarters. Even in 1809, he knew how many columns the Austrians were coming in. Let's not get too much of later wars in our heads.
Everybody had their spies. Knowing a corps is in an area and not knowing how much is in it is plenty FOW. I can remember a case where the Brits were invading Sweden in a EIA game I was playing as Ivan. I sent a huge number of corps across. They were weak, but looked impressive enough to send him back to his ships.

(in reply to denisonh)