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The first of our Waterloo Campaign battles was fought to a conclusion today, using the ‘General d’Armee’ rules. The Battle of Gilly involved a larger French Corps (overseen by Napoleon himself), trying to thrust a blocking Prussian corps aside.
We'd gamed three battles using the new rules last year so it was good to get back into Naps.

A brief report:

The Prussians unexpectedly launched a spoiling attack on the French right flank, using their cavalry brigade.
Simultaneously, they seized the central village of Gilly with a Landwehr brigade.

The ferocity and unexpected nature of their moves put the French on the back foot. A battery of Imperial Guard Horse artillery was destroyed, much to the Emperor’s chagrin
And artillery & skirmisher fire pinned down much of the French force.

The French counter-attacked & their superior cavalry first stopped, then in subsequent turns destroyed or routed both Prussian cavalry regiments & their supporting artillery.
This left them behind the Prussians. In the centre, after changing hands a number of times, Gilly was occupied by the Prussians but having been encircled was more prison than fortress.

On the French left flank, their artillery brigade softened up the Prussians, while a strong brigade advanced & the redoubtable Empress Dragoons sought out the Prussian left flank, virtually unopposed.

At the stage (end of Turn 6) the game was called as a French victory.

I think it may be a good idea to re-fight this battle before moving on to Qatre Bras.

No photos were taken as I forgot to organise it...next time.

I'll post a photo of our first game using Rheinbund & Russian troops: yesterday's game looked a lot like this but with French & Prussian figures:



donald

Blucheronics at its best.

Bit stingy with the piccies, Donald.

Very nice looking game though.

E

Essex Boy wrote: ↑Mon Dec 09, 2019 12:34 pm Bit stingy with the piccies, Donald.

Very nice looking game though.

E

Yeah I agree, bloody tight Scotsman must be trying to save camera battery power

How are your figures based Donald or what figure ratio are you using? Is that a 40 figure Russian battalion?

VB,

we're just using our old ELAN (which is a modification of WRG) basing.
Infantry (4 figs.) usually on a strip 60x20, cavalry (3 figs) 60x30 etc.

Re-basing is out of the question but if I was to do it, I'd prefer the 40x40 (with 4 figs in 2 lines) that we use in our SYW games.
The figure ratio is 1:33 so Infantry small is <12, Standard is 12-17 & large is 18-+ etc. The Opolchenie have batts of 20+ figs but the line is often in the 10 fig. range.

donald

BTW Combat.

The FoG rules have combat in 2 phases: Impact & Melee.

And so does Gd'A.......Charge & Melee. Minor point but if this fact was clearly stated (in an otherwise very lucid rule set), it would stop some confusion.

donald

What's good about GdeA is that actual figure numbers don't matter as there's the battalion or regiment designated sizes of large, standard and small that gets around the issue.
I agree re basing is an awful thing to contemplate but i suppose I'm surprised by the single rank basing which must be a pain when moving troops
Even though mine are based in two ranks I still find this an issue so made a load of sabot bases that I find a godsend in larger games

I'll try and post a photo later but post image is currently down

valleyboy wrote: ↑Mon Dec 09, 2019 11:54 pm so made a load of sabot bases that I find a godsend in larger games
I'll try and post a photo later but post image is currently down

That might well be a neat solution: I look forward to seeing a photo or two.

Being a man of strong passions, I can confidently state that even after only 4 games of Gd'A, I love them.

donald