Wörth - The Battlefield

MAPS of the battlefield show a veritable jumble of terrain.

But it is important not to get bogged down with too much scenery, especially at 54mm scale, and even more so when a small number of figures is being used.

The Prusso-Bavarian force for our refight has 32 infantrymen, two cavalrymen, and two guns, with eight crewmen - 42 men in all.

The French army is smaller: 16 infantrymen, two cavalrymen, and one gun, with four crewmen - 22 men in all.

The salient features of the battlefield, over which they will be fighting, are the River Sauer, the villages of Wörth and Frœschwiller, and two dense woods - Niederwald and Hochwald.

Looking from the south, we can see the Sauer running through Wörth, with Frœschwiller to the northwest - on the west bank of the river is Niederwald, and in the northeast corner of the battlefield is Hochwald 

Infantry and cavalry take a turn to cross the Sauer (it is impassable to artillery).

The mechanics are that a brigade enters the river hex on turn one, spends a turn there, during which it cannot shoot, and leaves on the following turn.

Both woods are impassable to all troops (in reality, small numbers of infantrymen could operate in the woods, but they would be insignificant at our scale).