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 9 o'clock fog fills the valleys. Troops in it see only a few hundred metres, and cannot be seen from the heights.
Villages, the Sokolnitz château and woods give cover. Streams slow movement; frozen ponds can be crossed slowly, but cannon fire breaks the ice.
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 Zuran in strength for fifteen minutes, the battle is lost.

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Grande Armée · Moravie

AUSTERLITZ

La Bataille des Trois Empereurs

2 décembre 1805

The situation

Seventy-three thousand Frenchmen face eighty-five thousand Russians and Austrians before Brünn, in Moravia. The Tsar Alexander and the Emperor Francis are with their army on the Pratzen plateau.

The Emperor has deliberately weakened his right. Following Weyrother's plan, the Allied columns will march down from the heights to turn it at Telnitz and Sokolnitz — and so empty their own centre.

The plan of battle

Hold Telnitz and Sokolnitz with Legrand until Davout's III Corps arrives from Raigern.
Keep Soult hidden in the fog. When the Allied columns have left, storm the Pratzen: Pratze, the Pratzeberg and Staré Vinohrady.
Hold the Santon and the Olmütz road against Bagration with Lannes and Murat.
Never lose the Zuran, your command post.

Press ? in battle for instructions · the battle runs from 7 h to 17 h