Roads

[AJ]

And here's another 

http://www.histwar.com/forum/index.php/topic,3169.0.html

[Count von Csollich]

thanks, for not being as lazy as I was,, aj  !

CvC

[AJ]

Trying to help mate
How do ya like dem smileys. Off to watch a movie with the wife, there is life outside of HLG, well barely!!!!!!

[amrcg]

FOUND IT!!!!!!!!!

http://www.histwar.org/forum/index.php/topic,3626.0.html

For some reason I have no access to it.

António

[Count von Csollich]

For some reason I have no access to it.

António

oh yeah, sorry - that's a restricted forum for the guys that pre-ordered only...  

CvC

[Count von Csollich]

it's basically the same topic you asked here...only a few months earlier 

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[Franciscus]

Nevertheless, returning to the roads...
ACW is not the same as Napoleonic wars, but in several battles of the ACW roads did play a significant role. Chancelorsville jumps to mind, as Jakson's corps used Brock Road and then Orange Plank Road to turn the right flank of the USA Army. In Gettysburg I also seem to recall roads playing an important part, and I am sure other examples exist.
I also think that the idea that in a tactical scale roads were not important, only at strategical level is not completely right. If an entire Napoleonic Corps in a road would be miles long, in a tactical level we are talking of single brigades, even regiments, in road column quickly traversing woods, or going from one flank to the other, etc.
SoW Gettysburg models this right, IMHO. Maybe in the Napoleonic times forces were not so mobile as in the ACW ?

Just some thoughts

Regards