1805 Osteriches V the Corsican Mountebank

[grizzlymc]

Our club's 1805 campaign is entering the operational phase.

The whole thing is a sort of magnum opus of Andrew Brew, another who took much time off wargaming and has recently com e back.

We start of with a 20X10 hex map of Bavaria, bits of the Rhineland, bits of southern Prussia and Central/western Austria moving corps around Hungary. When troops get within a few hexes of each other, we drop down to an operational map moving divisions. Then, we fight on a table which looks like a dolled up topo map with each brigade being represented by a 60X30mm rectangle with COTOTS troops on it.

We have just entered the first operational phase and my Russian corps is on the North of the main concentration, with the osteriches to the enemy's south and east.

Very exciting.

[Essex Boy]

I look forward to your next report.

[World2dave]

Sounds very interesting!
I'd love to be able to say, 'great pictures, and the maps look good' but of course I can't. As you haven't posted any.
Come on Grizz, share the goodness!

[Shahbahraz]

Andrew Brew? The name is familiar, I think I may have played DBM with him back in the 90's.

And yes, pictures please.

[grizzlymc]

I'll see what I can do, I always have difficulty getting photos into LAW. Andy took me through it 18 months asgo, but I have forgotten how to edit the link.

[ochoin]

What hosting site do you use?

Postimage.org works easily enough for me.

donald

[grizzlymc]

If flickr won't sort my problems pronto, I'll open an account with postimage.

What these sorry arsed geeks don't understand is that I don't want changes of my bloody service or login just to keep them employed, I want the same old, same old. My supermarket does the same thing to make me walk further to get my stuff. It causes trolley rage.

[grizzlymc]

First a photo of the tabletop. This was last month's Aspern Essling, a chance for Andrew to fine tune the minis rules. Earlier games had used paper counters, the toys looked majic. You can see the Osterich Grenadiers seeing off one of a number of the Emperor's curassier charges.



We use some rules Andrew has modified from a set of civil war rules. He calls them Crown and Altar, which I have irrevocably remembered as Crown and Anchor

[grizzlymc]

Yay! Flickr can shove it.

Next, the campaign map. Of important are red hex boundaries (1,2 and possibly 3 you don't get to cross), and the political boundaries. Bavaria is neutral but both sides may enter Bavaria. Bavaria get points for being neutral each turn, or they may sell their allegiance for VPs.



Sitrep Oct 15



Sitrep Oct 17, I think. I am headed for the Austrian flank. The small counters are the corps cavalry screen, they let you see further in certain directions.




And that, is all I know.

[ochoin]

Well done, you. That looks like a 'proper wargame' & the campaign just sounds great. I look forward to updates.

donald