Welcome to Part 1 of what will ultimately be a twelve-part series, following each turn in our club's latest Napoleonic campaign. Feel free to refer back to the introductory post for a quick overview of the rules and set-up for this map-based campaign.

In this first part of the series, we'll briefly review the context of the situation in April 1809 and the objectives Napoleon and Charles sought to achieve. Then, it's time to see the deployments our players chose and their opening marching orders for Turn 1!

Following our long-running and highly enjoyable 1815 Campaign, the club is about to embark on a very different Napoleonic operation. Instead of a linear sequence of pre-determined scenarios, our newest campaign will be a more exciting, map-based, free movement system.

Using the new Blucher rules with 6mm miniatures, we will be covering twelve days of critical action along the Danube, where Napoleon and Archduke Charles fought a series of major battles in April 1809. Our own version of this campaign is based largely on the research, maps, and OOBs presented in John Gill's fantastic study, Thunder on the Danube.