Franco-prussian battle

[Le Manchou]

Hello all, here is a picture of the battle of Gravelotte-St Privat we began to play on Sunday. The battle will continue on Saturday.

[Le Manchou]

And here is another one

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Looking great - any chance of a commentry about what is happening thus far (like whose holding where and which corp is positioned where).
Ta
ML

[Le Manchou]

Yes of course: so the battle begins with the French line already deployed, from South to North, the IInd, IIIrd, IVth and VIth corps. The French also has the possibility to use the IInd corps cavalry division, one reserve cavalry division, the grand reserve of artillery and the imperial guard but if they do so, they lose victory points. The first Prussian army of Steinmetz (VIIth and VIIIth corps) is also present and already installed two big batteries which combined represent around 150 guns. During the Sunday game, they destroyed a lot of French batteries but didn't touched the infantry and the French line is still very strong in the South. In the centre the IXth corps (IInd Prussian army) arrived and began to deploy very carefully, on its left, the Prussian guard arrived but the player failed a lot its activations and this corps is still deploying. On its left, the XIIth Saxon corps just arrived and is marching to help the Prussian guard. The reserve artillery of the Prussian guard (6 batteries) deployed too soon and unprotected and was charged very successfully by the 3 cavalry regiments of the VIth corps. But the cavalry division was also destroyed in the action by infantry fire. Next Saturday we will continue the fight and the pressure of the Prussians will be more and more visible.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Very impressive

IanS

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Nice to see Canorobert being agressive! 
Thank you! Look forwards to the rest of the battle
Just noticed: is Von Stienmetz behaving himself and not attacking a wooded gully suicidally!

[Arsenus]

Holy ....!

Thaat's beautiful!

[wargamesbob]

Those are really good looking tables. I've heard about using maps as a table surface but this is the first time I've seen it  done. Very impressive indeed.
Bob

[Leman]

Stunning! Looks a great way to represent such a large battle.
DP

[fred.]

Those tables look amazing - it is a really different look.

It also shows what real terrain looks like at this scale, compared to the usually wargames terrain of a couple of houses, a hill and a few trees.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

If they were doing Mars-La-Tours, it would be mostly like that, not a 'Position Magnifique'! 

[jchaos79]

Really nice! which set of rules do you use?

Congrat!

[nikharwood]

That looks great - very impressive 

[Le Manchou]

Thanks! I use '1870'

[Maenoferren]

A great looking game, love the maps