So I have a question for you all and it's really important. The last time we did a BoP, BoP 1914, I told you all to research your own countries to see what you could find about armies, navies etc & use that to guide you all regarding how you did war. I did that then because the armies were so large, the countries so innumerable, and the information so vague or non-existent for certain countries or groups that it was hard for me to tell you confidently "you can raise this many men".
However, we are in the weird situation where all of us (except for a few *Cough Cough* Baby J) have studied, learned, read about and explored the Napoleonic Wars. I myself have an entire mini library of Napoleonic Wars books (my favorite rn being "The Napoleonic Wars: 1803-1815" by David Gates) not including the many many books & resources I can find in libraries and in Google Books as well as online. Theoretically, I could do research all of your nations and give you all a decent amount of detail in how big your armies were (peak and depending on the nation, by year & who composed it), the number of cavalry and guns you had at a certain point in history, etc etc. That's actually what I've started doing in the main BoP thread. However I must admit it is a lot of work having to comb through books and books and pages of stuff trying to find "The King of Bavaria left with all 22 thousand of his troops" & "By the time of the start of the war of the Third Coalition, Napoleon's Grande Armee comprised 194 thousand peronnel, with 396 guns, and of which 29 thousand were horsemen."
What do you guys think we should do? Should I continue to look for information and put it on the page for everyone to see to help you all figure out how big your armies are or should I let you all research your armies? Or should we work together and compile a mini database so that we all have a general idea of men to nation?
Work on the game is going well. I'm enjoying reading through my books again. I still need help with the map (HRE, Hesse-Kassel why are the borders so bad). The only system I would want is a system for battles. Everything else I'd like to have more Caz-Duuring style GM discretion instead of purely relying on abstract equations and number crunching for every little tiny thing. Then again, idk. I don't know what you guys want until you tell me. So please do. Thanks in advance.
