Napoleonic Battle

[Rob]

A few shots of a wargame I had at home With nearly all of my Napoleonics on table.  

The shots are of random times in the battle as I didn't take them as the battle developed just when I thought about it.  

The battle was a bit of a frontal slog. My opponent the Austrian basicle sat down and didnt attack. As the battle developed every French attack was beaten back. The Austrians had some broken units and took alot of fire casualties but remained rock solid until we called time. I felt a bit disappointed I hadn't done better but afterwoods realised that the French were outnumbered.

For context the table is 6' by 4' which in the rules represents 3 miles by 2. There are nearly 800 Austrian figures and more than 575 Franch (and Bavarian).

We just got the troops out the boxes and set them up. There were some Austrian guns and French dragoons left. We didnt count them up and it did give a bit of an unbalance. But it was really good fun. In numbers of actual men represented by the figures there were 18,200 Austrain infantry with 36 guns and 1,800 cavalry. The French had 9,500 infantry, 54 guns and 2,000 cavalry.


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Note the rules allow troops to set up strong points within built up areas and the French have used the barricade models to represent that fact.

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[Techno]

That looks like great fun !
Cheers - Phil

[Leon026]

That looks like a lot of fun! What ruleset did you use?

[Womble67]

Looks excellent

Take care

Andy

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Good looking game

[jambo1]

Great looking figs and a great looking game!

[Leman]

That looks very impressive.

[Norm]

I like those rather natural looking sabots

[Subedai]

Impressive.

[Roy]

 

I only wish I had a couple of painted armies to play with 

[ronan]

 

(...) The shots are of random times in the battle as I didn't take them as the battle developed just when I thought about it.  

As we all do ! 

[Rob]

That looks like a lot of fun! What ruleset did you use?

They are my own, the idea is to be able to manage multi division size battles.

The Austrians had a full infantry div of 12 large battalions with 3 batteries, a light division of 2 brigades each with a light cavalry regiment and either jagers or Grenze, and a third brigade of 4 landwehr battalions. They also had a small reserve brigade of 2 grenadier battalions and a jager battalion and a 12pdr battery.

The French had 2 infantry divisions one of 9 and the other of 10 battalions, each with2 6pdr batteries, a light cavalry division of 4 regiments in 2 brigades and a horse battery, and a reserve of 2 12pdr batteries.

I thought they were about finished but I umpired a game between two chaps at the club last night and they came up with one situation the rules didn't cover very well and also made two excellent suggestions which I will incorporate. So they are still developing but are nearly there. 

Cheers,
Rob 

[Rob]

I like those rather natural looking sabots

I put a post in your single basing thread Norm. If you need any more info just let me know. 

[Rob]

Good looking game

Thanks. I'm just in the middle of painting two Austrian hussar regiments and then I'll stop. I'll start again in the future but Clib's latest figs and your steady drip drip of painted LoA units has cracked my resistance and I have ordered some LoA troops.