Mark,
My compliments for the sentiments expressed in your previous post.
It is also worth bearing in mind that, quite apart from the issue of newcomers, questions which are obvious to some will be far less so to others. Indeed, this is one of the wonderful things about this hobby - there are, literally, thousand of avenues of research and enquiry that one could pursue depending on one's particular interest. Whilst I am by no means an experienced wargamer or a Napoleonic expert, I have had a interest in the period for some 20 years - yet, it never ceases to amaze me how much there is out there that I know nothing about and indeed, have never even thought about - Sabertache's query on allocation of replacements being a case in point.
Orange