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| The French having a quick reconnaissance of the field |
Peter D at the club has a wonderful eye for table and scenario design when it comes to Napoleonic Wargames. Wednesday night at the club was no different with another play testing opportunity for General D’Armee.
The 1809 campaign is certainly extremely popular at the club with the Napoleonic aficionados and especially with myself. The first army of ever painted was the Viceroy Eugene De Beauharnais and his Army of Northern Italy for this very campaign. Richard has a nice army of Italians himself sPeter put the scenario together with Richard and Cookie taking on Peter and myself.
Lots of varied troop types, training levels and morale classes.we .
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| Our order of battle |
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| The nasty French and Italians…they was hard to type |
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| Austrian Landwehr units |
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| Grenadiers and Grenzer regiments |
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| The view across to the French looking to cross the stream |
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| My command on the extreme right flank of the Austrian position |
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| The French have already sent some Legere battalions into skirmish as they look to cross in force on the Austrian right |
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| A brigade of Insurrection Hussars look more menacing they they actually are |
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| More a French, Italian line and Royal Italian Guard. |
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| Grouchy and his Dragoon Division |
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| A picture out of sequence. The Austrian guns has been blown asunder by fortunate French fire |
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| That does look impressive |
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| The Archduke himself - John that is, not Charles. |
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| Austrian light cavalry in Peters command. They would fight very well on the night |
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| A forwards order for the Grenadier Brigade to hit the Italians as they cross |
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| An Austrian counter- attack across the stream surprised my French opponent. He never regained his momentum on this flank again for the duration of the battle |
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| Action on the left. Cavalry encounter that ebbed and flowed but weight of numbers eventually saw the French cavalry take the honours and leave the Austrians exposed |
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| Remember that Austrian battery. This is just a shot in memorium |
Once again the battle was so intoxicating that the camera was put away and the game enjoyed. In the end the French and Italian forces from the centre to the Austrian left forced the crossing and took the field. The Austrian Grenadier repulse which offered so much promise hitting an unformed enemy was repulsed and thrown back in disarray.
Another great scenario from Peter and lots of fun once again.
Very cool looking set up. All the best games are the ones not photographed (because they were so fun to play!). I'm even MORE impressed by someone having handwriting that can be read! 😀
ReplyDeleteI know Stew. That is pretty impressive however Peter is a very organised young man that’s for sure. The game was great fun and nothing beats being organised well before arrival at the club. I wish some more of my mates would pay attention to that as well😂
DeleteA great account and lovely photographs of a super looking game, thank you. Totally agree about pre-game organisation, not least for the extra amount of gaming time it gives. Cheers Chris G
ReplyDeleteSo true Chris. In terms of a well prepared game I’m sure that you’d take some topping my friend. Your attention to detail is amazing.
DeleteA cracking looking game Carlo…
ReplyDeleteIt’s nice when you get so lost in the game that you forget to let the press officer out of his tent….😁
All the best. Aly
Ha ha Aly and so well said. Yes the game and hobby certainly leads you up the path of enjoyment when everything comes together well.
DeleteGreat looking game; I think I have run Raab 4 times over 30 years; always a good game. I even have 4 units of Insurrectio infantry, and campaigns aside, this is about the only battle where you can use them!
ReplyDeleteIt’s so true Peter - the Insurrectio units, so incredibly colourful, fight Eugene and few others in this campaign. Raab is an excellent study as well in teens of what Eugene learnt from previous mistakes. Great game.
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