After reading Goetz's Austerlitz, I modified my OBs to reflect his revised orders of battle for the combatants. Having enough figures to fight the engagement, a map was created, terrain laid out, and troops deployed.
My Austerlitz map was built in Campaign Cartographer (I don't recall which version; perhaps, v2 or v3). Campaign Cartographer is a very powerful CAD program with a steep learning curve. In fact, it takes considerable time to relearn the mechanisms for manipulating objects every time I use the program.
First, Austerlitz is a big game. The table below is 12 feet by 6 feet and the battlefield spreads over the entire surface. A larger area would have allowed the Allies more flexibility in initial deployments and maneuver plus removing the constraint of defending the edge of the earth. Adding an extra two feet to the eastern board edge would relieve this constraint but make the game unplayable. I cannot reach midway across an eight foot table. Translating game map to the tabletop produced this result:
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| Austerlitz Overview from South |
The stacks of paperwork should have been removed from the table before shooting the picture but c'est la guerre.
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| French deployments on northern battlefield |
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| French positions looking from Zuran Hill |
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| French positions around Girzikowitz looking east |
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| Allied positions on the Pratzen |
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| Pratzen Heights as seen from Puntowitz |
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Allied positions on Pratzen Heights
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| Sokolnitz-Telnitz showing Davout's reinforcements |
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| Southern portion of battlefield showing Pheasantry to Telnitz |
