The title wants to be a reward for who probably was the best  general during the first years of Bonaparte’s campaigns.Loano  battlefield presented some features which the wargaming world  did never explore or did  partially: mountain warfare in the age  of French Revolutionary Wars. The battle itself was not a decisive  one. It allowed the French to maintain a bridgehead in Italy with  more chances of supply than the naval option, very dangerous  due to cruising British ships. Maybe it revealed a modest and  good (not a genius) French commander, Schérer, but, above all,  saw the birth of the republican military star, general André  Masséna, who will put Napoléon out of troubles in many future  battles (i.e. Rivoli 1797). The Austrian counterpart was, as usual,  the common mix between ridiculous chiefs and heroic lower  officers. So no news here.