La Bataille de Aspern-Essling 1809

La Bataille d’Aspern-Essling 1809

Austrian Artillery Organization

Austrian Artillery is not centralized as with other armies of the day.

Austrian brigade may only stack with infantry or other brigade batteries of the same korps. Kavallerie Batteries may only stack with other Kavallerie batteries. Batteries of position may only stack with infantry or batteries of position from the same korps.

Generaladjutanten Grunne may combine any type of artillery, of the same Korps, in the hex he is in. He must remain in the hex or for the combination to continue. If he leaves, limber and reorder as required.

Austrians in Towns and Villages

The Austrian Army was effective at digging into and fortifying strong points  Austrian or Hungarian linie infantrie (not Grenz or Jägers ) subtract two from their printed morale value when in a town or village hex.  Austrian or Hungarian grenadier and linie printed fire values are multiplied by 1.5 during defensive fire when in towns and villages (not Church or Granary)  Austrian Freiwilliger and KL add two to their printed morale value when in a town. They are much easier to control in the open rather than dispersed in a town. No change for village or hamlet. Austrian Carneville Freikorps (FK) This is a special units which have been locally raised and contains both Infantrie and Kavallerie in their battalion sized formation. Fire combat, Melee combat and all morale checks are as a normal infantry unit. They function and move as infantry for all purposes, with the following minor exceptions. Their formation is a carryover from the Seven Years War.

The Freikorps may not Charge or Reaction Charge or Opportunity Charge enemy units

They may freely retreat before melee from all infantry types including skirmishers.

They may not attempt a voluntary formation change in an enemy phase. They do not form any type of Masse

They may not enter towns because of concerns due to their history of looting.

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