En pause — press Space

Instructions to the General Staff

Command

Left-click a formation to select it. Shift adds to the selection.
Drag a box to select several formations.
Double-click a formation, or click a marshal's pennant, to select the whole corps.
Right-click the ground to march there. Right-drag sets the facing of the line on arrival.
Right-click a visible enemy to attack. Infantry and cavalry charge; a battalion set to Line (with Auto off) stops at musket range and fires.

Formations

Z Column — fast and strong in the charge, but a target for guns.
X Line — full musketry, slow to move and wheel.
C Square — proof against cavalry, but murdered by artillery.
V Auto — officers choose the formation themselves (on by default).
E Engage / Hold stance (engaged troops stop to fight enemies who come close and pursue a short way; holding troops obey orders to the letter) · H Halt · F centre the view on the selection.

The map

W A S D / arrow keys, middle-drag, or right-drag with nothing selected to pan. Wheel to zoom. Click the minimap to jump.
Space pause · 1–4 game speed. At 1×, three seconds are one minute of battle.

Fighting the battle

Until about 10 o'clock thick fog lies over the whole plateau. Troops see only a few hundred metres, and neither side can see the other's guns.
Villages, the moated castle at Kapellendorf and woods give cover. The Saale and the Mühlbach slow movement; the slopes of the Landgrafenberg and the Mühltal are steep.
Morale falls under fire and in melee. A broken formation flees and may rally out of reach of the enemy. Your marshals and, above all, the Emperor restore morale nearby.
Cavalry in the flank or rear is decisive. Guns must stand still to fire.
Objectives (medallions, numbered by their value) are held by whoever alone occupies them. If the enemy holds the Landgrafenberg in strength for fifteen minutes, the battle is lost.

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Grande Armée · Thuringe

IÉNA

La Bataille d’Iéna

14 octobre 1806

Choose your command

The situation

Prussia has gone to war. On the evening of the 13th the Emperor seized the Landgrafenberg above Jena; through the night Lannes's corps and the Guard were crammed onto its narrow summit, and guns were hauled up the Steiger by torchlight.

On the plateau to the west, Prince Hohenlohe's 38,000 Prussians and Saxons believe they face only a flank guard. Rüchel's 15,000 are at Weimar; the King and Brunswick are marching north with the main army. At dawn the plateau lies under thick fog.

Your objectives

Press ? in battle for instructions · the battle runs from 6 h to 17 h