The guide breaks the battle down into sector scenarios which can be linked into a mini-campaign. It includes an account of historical events, detailed orders of battle, scaled down army lists for game purposes, maps of the historical events, and stylized maps for laying out wargames tables.

Rohan Saravanamuttu has wargamed for over 40 years and was one of the co-organisers of the Big Battalions wargames group and has designed and arranged many wargames scenarios. After retiring from his career in financial services he acquired an MA (with distinction) in The History of War from the Department of War Studies, King's College London, which included taking Professor Phil Sabin's Conflict Simulation module (wargame design). Rohan was a contributor to the Encyclopedia of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (Fremont-Barnes, G. (ed), ABC Clio, Santa Barbara, 2006).