French Order of Battle for Aspern-Essling
May 22, 1809

This order of battle has been optimized for grand tactical game play. Some historical formations at brigade or divisional level have been merged or re-arranged in order to match the recommended tactical unit sizes. Some of these formations represent only those units which managed to cross the Danube, and so the list does not represent a general order of battle for the entire French Army in the area at the time. Most French troops will be average quality, with some rated as green, notably the provisional formations such as divisions Demont.

Mixed infantry brigades which are composed of both line and light units will gain somewhat in their skirmish marker ability, being able to send out one extra skirmish base for each light infantry base in the brigade (in addition to the one skirmish marker already available to the line regiment). Players must remove line and light bases alternately from such units (they may not remove all line bases first). Some French cavalry divisions are so weak at this battle that they must be merged with other cavalry formations in order to create viable fighting formations (otherwise you are playing the game with numerous one-base units, which does not work well).