OT--- Marshal Michel Ney defends himself after the battle of Waterloo.
He was the one with the suicide cavalty attack which cost Napoleon the victory.
Experts believe that Ney had a total blackout during the last stage of the battle!!
OT- Napoleon had no chance in the first place. Even if he defeated the British, he simply would have been playing for time. Ney was just a premature nail in the coffin. He should have defeated the British at Quatre Bras. By not doing so, this allowed Wellington to retreat in good order to ground of his choosing. Here the weather played a part as well. The skies opened up making pursuit impossible for the French.
Of all I have read, I also, put part blame on Marshal Grouchy, who should have marched to the sound of the guns. He was duped into a holding position by one Prussian corps. However, Napoleon should never have split his force in the face of the enemy. His doctrine was always to defeat one army and then turn on the other, which was known as the 'Strategy of the central position'. Also, Murat should have been in command of the French cavalry at Waterloo. Napoleon denied Murat this opportunity, because he felt Murat was a traitor. Actually, he was, but he certainly would have proved quite useful.
The Armée du Nord of 1815, was the best army Napoleon commanded since 1813, but it simply was not large enough to defeat the whole of Europe, now arrayed against him. Fate has a way of shortening such oversight on the part of the French. Mistakes were made which simply led to defeat.
Ney did make many mistakes, but it really is his bravery that goes down in legend, not his errors in battle. At least in my eyes. He certainly fought those cossacks from Moscow all the way to the Niemen. If it was not for Ney commanding the rearguard of the French army, many more men would have perished. As it was only 35,000 French soldiers survived. Along with 50,000 Prussian and Austrian troops. Ney saved these too, who turn against Napoleon in 1813.
Anyway way OT.
Back OT...
So, we will see how the AI uses it's bombers very soon. I have an LP story coming up, which I plan to post part by part while I mod some units for future game.
In this game I am Ethiopia. Emperor, large map 11 civs, 14 or 15 CSs, if I remember right. Domination victory, play until 1918. It should be quite interesting. Posting will begin as soon as I am more advanced in tech, closer to WWI tech.
I don't think the developers play there own game atleast with the animations on. Once the AI get planes i turn off the animations in the options and i use strategic mode for my own planes. I'd like to see all the battles but they take far to long, unfortunately firaxis don't care to speed them up.
