Pfaffenhofen 1745

You're right.

I would rate one battery medium and one light on both sides.

Ségur lost on his retreat 7 guns (more than half of his artillery - or perhaps half of his art. at least), the war chest of his ally and all his correspondence to the enemy.

There were two french foreign infantryunits at least at Pfaffenhofen. One was Royal Suédois and the other Royal Bavière. The later had the honour to save the french war chest. So perhaps you would like to give the french one superior foreign bn..

There are some good facts in the french favor - like they were in the real battle.
1st: the austrians had a very deep formation, 3 lines of infantry deep. Reason was the narrow terrain between the Ilm-river and the wood on the top of the hills on the western side of Pfaffenhofen.
2nd: Ségur maybe was not a very clever general but his defensive positions were all well chosen. If there would not were these light troops under Trips the outflanking of these positions would have been inpossible.
3rd: M.d.C. Rupelmonde saved at least for one time the army from total destruction by rallying the troops in a very critical moment. Rupelmonde himself was killed in this event.

I would think that there is a good chance to save at least the second line by defending the crest of the hill with the first line.

I'm not sure where the german troops were. Historicaly there were 13 french and 4 allied bn.s. In the beginning the 4bn.s under Zastrow and the palatine cavalry formed the avantgarde with 2 guns. Behind these troops came the other 12 guns, the war chest and the french infantry and cavalry. Nevertheless later in the battle the palatine infantry fled throu the french lines, which happened in one of the most critical moments of the battle when the running soldiers throwed even their weapons and havresacks away!

The Palatine army of this time was a very small one.

There were 6 regiments with 13 bn.s only. So the 4 bn.s at Pfaffenhofen were a significant part of this army.

Although I don't know if there were palatine-cavalryunits on the battlefield, it's interesting to know, that the elector Carl Theodor changed the cavalry extremely in this time (autumn 1744). 3 regiments of dargoons and 1 unit of horse (Leib-Reiter, Hatzfeld, Elliot and Blankenheim) were converted to 1 regiment: "Der Frau Churfürstin Dragoner Leibregiment" (the dragoon lifeguard of the electress). 2 carabiniers-Units and the sqn. of the cercle were converted to a regiment of horse: Graf Elliot de Morhange Reiter-Regiment (the count Elliot of Morhange regiment of horse). There were 1 company of hussars (53 men) not included in these regiments. These hussars were typical for german minor states and not used for war but as couriers or for representation.

Please note that I changed the Scenario a bit.

Reason is that I hope to play the Scenario in autumn or winter 2016/17.

As I halved the number of batallions I decided now to halve the number of grenadiercompanies and artillery too. I thought that a small unit could stand for a Company but now I'm convinced that a ad hoc bn. would be better. So all Grenadiers are represented in 2 ad hoc bn.s perhaps of 2 coy.s each. In this way I will have half of the grenadier units on the table.

I'm researching now the austrian troops at Pfaffenhofen. Partly to give others the chance to refight with the right troops as they wish.

kronoskaf mentions that the Dragoons of the Regiment Batthyányi Dragoons was present at Pfaffenhofen.