Rev Wars / Napoleonic general

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>>2807849
>>fav marshals and generals
I like a lot of historical figures in that time but some of my favourite are probably Gen. Ostermann Tolstoy for his A E S T H E T I C and Archeduke Charles for being perhaps the most defiant opponent to Napoleon
>>fav battles
Battles like Wagram, Borodino and Aspern-Essling seems like interesting ones
>>fav military innovations
Jars french soldiers had to keep their food in, srs smart move
>>fav maneuvers
Attack column like cmon
>>fav republic
Is it normal that i love the small german states? Sometimes i wish Bohemia and Moravia were made into small republics after the defeat of the Habsburgs
>>fav facts 'n' shit
all of them

>>2807849
I'm interested in the period but it has so much stuff going on that it's kind of hard to keep track of it all.
Any good books about this, that wouldn't overwhelm me too much, but still give a decent overview?

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>>2807849
Btw know any documentaries, books, or games that have realistic Napoleonic formations that go beyond the battalion or regiment? I wish i ould see hundreds of thousands of men in the smoke and battle fighting but few films represent it well imo. One of the only good examples is those old russian films "War and Peace" and "Waterloo" that used a fuck ton of soviet army men for the shots.

>>2809158
same here anon

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>>2809158
About Napoleon himself, the wars in general or the french revolution?

>>2807849
>fav republic
So my options here are basically either France or one of the many french puppet states right?

>>2809167
The Wars in general, starting from French Revolution till Waterloo.

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>>2809158
if you'd like to read about specific battles, campaigns, nations or tactics i strongly recommend this website
http://napoleonistyka.atspace.com/
I've read/am reading a couple books that highly interested me being:
"Independence: The Struggle To Set America Free" by John Ferling
"The French Revolution" by Ian Davidson (personnal favourite)
"For God and Kaiser: The Imperial Austrian Army" by Richard Bassett (very informative on the entire history of the Habsburg army)

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>>2807849

>>2809898
>not liking based Murat

He was the Marc Antony of his day

>>2809898
Lannes was too good, too pure

>>2807849
bump

>>2809898

Davout would be higher if Napoleon had utilised him better.

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that era is my favourite so bumping for interest. I'm a huge fan of the french revolution any thoughs on it?

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>>2807849
>fav marshals and generals
Arthur Wellesly
>fav battles
Waterloo
>fav military innovations
Rockets
>fav maneuvers
The routing of the french
>fav republic
n/a

>His favourite marshall isn't Michel "wherever I am I must also charge" Ney

>>2815898
>damn, the armies are growing ever larger so that not even I can handle them anymore
>lets put some division general with no strategic insight whatsoever in charge, what could POSSIBLY go wrong here

Damn Nappy, you had freakin Davout at hand, you could bring Massena out of retirement, hell if everything fails promote some of your generals from the Peninsular shitshow, at least they could handle a campaign theatre.

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>>2807849
>fav marshals and generals
Massena, Lannes, Moreau, Suvorov,

>fav battles
Probably Napoleons early Italy battles: The various Mantua campaigns are pretty great in so far, that the french army was qualitative and number wise inferior but raped their opponents through glorious maneuvre warfare.- Its also is interesting how some of these battles were won through sheer luck and how Napoleon spun the narrative around to make it into something JUST AS PLANNED

>fav facts 'n' shit
That just because Britain was mad at France, a combined anglo-russian army invaded the Neitherlands and noone thought it was anything out of the usual.
There was also a planned anglo-russian invasion of Southern Italy