From: Blucher
To: Brunswick
Sorry for the radio silence. Been on vacation this week and had a few things unexpectedly shake loose. Read all of your e-mails. A concentration of our forces after determining the French line of advance would be key to our winning this thing. From what I see, there are four ways in, Eisenach, Ohrdruf, Saalfeld, Hof and Zwickau via Eger. Knowing the enemies movements will give us a better idea of what he is going to do.
To that end, can we set up our Inf. Divisions in say, Eisenach, Ohrdruf, Saalfeld, Lohenstein and Hof and send Cav Divisions south on the roads leading to our Infantry? Recon with the Cav with orders to fall back to your Infantry upon contact with the enemy? Possibly set a drop dead date for each of us to move North, drawing the French after us and choose a place to combine our forces and make a stand? Not really sure how all this works.
Or maybe, looking at the map, converge on Bamberg and hit the Sicilian ogre where he hurts? They have a much easier setup than we do. They can only be in so many places. Still looking at the map, the Bamberg and Bayreuth roads cross south of Hof. There is a town south of Lohenstein, Kronach(?), then further west at Cobourg and Morningen. Four towns that expect to have troops advancing through them. Do we set up there and contest the movements? And I forgot Eger. Damn.
I am for setting Sharnhorst's 3rd Division Infantry in Hof and his Cav at the crossroads south and west of there on the Saale. Blucher's Infantry at Lohenstein and Cav ranging towards Kronach and Arnim's 2nd Division Infantry and Cavalry at Schleitz. Although I seem to think I saw someone already set up there.
Anyways, somebody let me know
