VAE VICTIS # 165: Trautenau and Soor 1866 (Wargame)

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Magazine includes wargame of June 27-28 1866 Battle of Trautenau-Soor, second in the Battles in the time of Napoleon III series.

One turn: one hour
Counters: regiments and battalion
Map: one hex = 750m
Complexity: 5/10
Solo play: 7/10
Duration of a game: 2 to 4 hours depending on the scenario

After several months of growing tensions, war broke out between Austria and Prussia for control of the primacy in Germany. Prussia plans to take its troops through the Sudetenland and into Bohemia through four different passes, with the goal of facing the Austrian main army in a decisive Napoleonic battle.

The end of one of these passages is located here, near the town of Trautenau. On June 27, the 10th Austrian corps pushed back the 1st Prussian corps there. But this tactical victory, the only one for Austria in Bohemia, obtained at the cost of heavy losses will have no strategic consequences: the next day, the 10th Corps is swept away by the Prussian Guard during the Battle of Soor.