It’s such a shame that there’s not even a single historical battle with Napoleon. I’d buy some historical battle packs based on his campaigns in a heartbeat.
The Egyptian campaign alone would be a fantastic set of historical battles. It could go something like this:
1) Invasion of Malta
Play as French against British and Maltese
(Co-op could have Maltese collaborators as a faction)
- Get your fleet to Malta while avoiding a vastly superior British fleet
- Land and conquer the island
- Flip sympathetic French Hospitallers to your side to make the conquest easier
2) Invasion of Egypt
Play as French against Mamelukes and Bedouins
(Co-op could have one player take the coastal route and another take the desert route)
- Land and conquer Alexandria
- March inland to the Nile flotilla at Rahmaniya while withstanding desert attrition and Bedouin harrassment
- March along the coast to Rosetta
- Use your savants to complete secondary objectives of collecting scientific and archeological data like the Rosetta Stone
3) Battle of the Pyramids
Play as French against the Mamelukes and Ottomans
- Defend from an Ottoman flotilla on the Nile in the Battle of Shubra Khit
- Use infantry squares to protect your artillery and baggage from Mameluke cavalry charges
- Use artillery and infantry squares to defeat and drive off the Mamluks cavalry and Fellahin militias
4) Battle of the Nile
Play as British against the French
(Co-op could have one player as British and one as Bedouins harassing the French on the shore)
- Outmaneuver the French fleet at Aboukir bay and defeat them
- French ships were roped together with all their guns facing the entrance to the bay and Nelson slipped through a channel behind them and attacked the vulnerable rear
- The shoals you need to navigate through could be semi-random for replayability
- The French may redeploy if they detect your movements too early
- Explode the flagship Orient and prevent retreat
5) Siege of Acre
Play as Ottomans and British against the French (Co-op could have one Ottoman player, and another as the British navy and artillery)
- Use your well trained Nizam Fusiliers and Albanian Stradiots to repel repeated French infantry assaults on the city
- British artillerymen support the defense
- Use the British fleet to intercept French artillery transports
- Help secure the retreat of troops defeated at the battle of Mount Tabor
- Lure the French into plague infected areas to further weaken their army
- Regroup and hold off the final French assault after they’ve broken into the city
- Harass the retreating French army
The Revolt of Cairo and Canal Expedition/Siege of Jaffa could also add a couple more battles, but they were quite brutal to civilians and not really turning points in the campaign so I left them out.