General d'Armee 2

A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to be able to play a game of the new Second Edition of General d'Armee umpired by no less than the author himself! 

The game was at the Herts Volunteers and was a 28mm outing in the Peninsular War.

As usual I was a commander on the French side of the engagement facing one of the two villages in the centre of the table (in my case made up of two sections one of which was fortified).  I did manage to successfully assault and take the unfortified section but couldn't hold on to it and took heavy casualties.

Here are some photos from the game:

Second edition GdA isn't a radical departure from the original, it's more of evolution rather than revolution with some streamlining of mechanisms.  Having played the first edition a couple of times I found the transition pretty straightforward and will be playing these again (using other people's figures as I don't have enough suitable ones of my own!)

General d'Armee - Waterloo

 The Herts Volunteers club has been generous enough to invite me to come along to their games.  I don't get up there as often as I would like (it's a hour and a half drive, M25 willing).  But when they offered me a chance to participate in their 28mm Waterloo game I wasn't going to miss it.

The game used the General d'Armee rules by Dave Brown published by Reisswitz Press (the TooFatLardies sister imprint). We were lucky enough to have the author himself come along and what a nice chap he is.

I was given command of the French 2nd Cavalry and 3rd Infantry Divisions which saw a lot of fighting over toward the right wing.  In the end, and despite some heavy pressure from the Allied forces I managed to hold out and in combination with a massive cavalry engagement on the actual right wing we allowed the left wing and centre to press home.

Here are a few photos - it's unfortunate that the identifying cards are so prominent but with so many people supplying figures they needed to be easily identifiable: