"The Battle of Fulda", the what if Napoleonic wargame after Leipzig part 2!

Everything was in place for the game to go either way............but the dice gods were watching!

Every turn you had to roll to see who moved first, fired first etc...., Richard charged his Legere into the Schutzen, they were lucky they were able to form before they were hit but the main issue here is his Corps commander is within 2 inches and any casualties caused on his unit will cause a D20 to be rolled and the amount of casualties caused is rolled could kill him, they were lucky.....

This is something that tickled me, these casualties on a Russian column are from his own rocket battery, fired 7 times and it only caused two friendly casualties....... 

Here they come again, Russian spirit, Lee's frustration............

All that cavalry and a big gap..........

Trying a little David Bailey, ruined by a Russian........

The Prussians crest the hill..........

The scene of battle at this time, the Prussians are steaming ahead.........

John throws caution to the wind and launches his cavalry forward against lines of infantry and squadrons of cavalry............

He slowly dismantles the entire Prussian left flank, wins round after round of melee, the only fly in the ointment was a drawn result which he won next round, we couldn't believe the Prussians run of luck on the dice, when he had to roll for pursuit checks he would pass them comfortably and retire in good order..........

We then felt a disturbance in the force and the mood changed, we had joked that we should wake Ray as he was on nights but we needn't have worried as Surjit had rang him earlier and woke him not realising he was not at the game, how we laughed...........

A morale check has gone badly and a hole has appeared in my weak lines, at this stage it was about exchanging volleys............

Lee steadies himself again for another assault, 3rd or 4th time is the charm?...........

Still waiting on a charge on a very weak point of my line, they never came.......

French cavalry rush forward to fill gaps.......

Ray sides with the Prussians, smug shit.........

The Legere after a Russian artillery barrage finally hits and morale causes them to fall back, is the way finally open for the Russians......

John has now caused routing and Brigade checks for the Prussians, entire brigades are falling back, Surjit has rolled nothing higher than a 3 on two dice 3 times........

I drop my Poles back to form a secure line..........

The Legere (disordered) rush forward and slam the door shut on the Russian columns.......

Ammunition on most artillery had run dry for me and the Russians by this stage (only cannister left) but what's this.......an ammunition wagon appears but too late......

A deflated, grim looking, couldn't roll well to save his life, blogging, sweating but in his natural environment blog whore......

Richard charges but is met by two Prussian squadrons.........

Lee and his Russians threw himself and them forward time and time again but to no avail, no luck again with the dice or in fairness his position, I actually started to feel pity for him near the end, this infuriated Lee no end........

Richard has routed both the Prussian squadrons and pursued and smashed into a trailing unit behind.........

A better view and the two routing Prussian cavalry.........

Richard routed the third cavalry squadron........

2 of these routing units would disperse after failing another brigade check which if the game continued would have brought on another divisional check............

John received man of the game (failing at not looking smug but I don't think he was trying not to), never lost a melee and caused brigade and divisional checks within the Prussian army.......

The game ended there with Postie adding up the victory points, 1 to 5 points difference is a minor victory, 6 to 10 points difference is a major victory, we got a 12 points difference (18-6) and Postie declaring a bloody thrashing victory!

In fairness the Prussians and their allies had no luck, never won a melee, failed so many morale rolls, failed brigade checks and got their asses handed to them and then we (the French) started to feel sorry for them, I think this hurt the most........

Good game, great result, well for the French anyway............poor Lee's dice luck continues, the only thing that could have made this better if Ray had been a Prussian.....hold on he was for a while!!!!!!!

15mm Napoleonic "The Battle of Uccle", 20th June 1815...the what if Napoleonic wargame heads into day 2!

This is the follow up game to 15mm "The Battle of Hal" Napoleonic wargame we had last November.......

This is one of those games that there wasn't much for me to do but when you're in a room with 7 other good wargamers and Ray having a laugh and enjoying the good atmosphere...it doesn't matter, it helps when you win as well!

Following the defeat yesterday at "The Battle of Hal" the French forces have withdrawn but Napoleon has reinforced them and drives forward again only to find Prince Frederick has withdrawn his army to the Belguim town of Uccle, he also has been reinforced but awaits more reinforcements from Wellington in Brussels.

Prince Jerome Bonaparte (Smithy) is in overall charge again and with the French 6th Division, the unlucky with cavalry Kellerman's 3rd Cavalry Corps (BigLee) but we have experience with Gen Baron Bachelu and his 5th Division (Ian) and I again (Comte Foy) with my 9th Division, the French forces are still heavily reduced with most regiments only at three quarter strength.

Reinforcements were decided by answering questions on the Napoleonic period which no one answered correctly, it explains the late arrival of said troops!!!!!! There were messages being handed out by our umpire which were real fog of war and very unhelpful and that was the obvious point of them.

My role was to pin the allies on their left flank (which had their best troops) and stop them from being used to strengthen their middle and the small town of Uccle, facing me was the L/General Colville (4th British Division). The battle for me and Brian (4th British Division) was a strange and quiet affair with mostly sniping at each other with artillery and manoeuvring for position and looking for a mistake to exploit, I tried to send 3 light regiments through the woods to flank him but by then we had won in the centre with the fall of Uccle to a barrage and the loss of of a brigade commander which caused an allied brigade (1st Dutch) to retire from the battlefield and another allied brigade through melee losses was required to test morale and looked to be failing as well, Prince Frederick (Ray) decided to concede defeat and wished to save the remnants of the allied army for a possible third battle outside of Brussels itself!

A good game again with a win for the French and with most of the army intact, maybe next time we'll see Napoleon himself and maybe the Prussians as well!

Initial set up......

Some new blood and fingers in the shed with Clint and Brian, fellow bloggers as well and Surjit and blog whore Ray.....

French goodness........

Allied resistance.......

More cavalry for Kellerman to lose, he did a lot better this game but emptied a lot of French saddles in the process....

The assault begins.......

A little pic of the figures that represent the Comte Foy and staff........

Some much Legere move through teddy bear fur fields (looked and felt great).....

Brian gets a bit emotional when I shoot at his troops..........

A good view until I spotted the fecking digestives in front of Ray......

One British artillery shot and I've got troops retreating and disordering everything in their path......

A contractual shot of our benevolent tyrant.......

You would think they had never eaten before........

Ray upsets Postie and brings the wrath on himself.......

Clint looks on with bewilderment at the wargamer equivalent of a smackdown continues.......

The Dutch come off the hill to buy time for Allied reinforcements arriving to their rear.......

I ended up with some of Kellerman's cavalry, waiting to be let loose........

The assault on the centre comes to a conclusion where French numbers and aggression count.....

My Legere regiments flanking through the woods......

The British are in for a nasty surprise.......

Most of the 9th division await the order to advance.......

British cavalry arrive too late to change the outcome of the encounter....

An allied view of the French assault on their centre.....

Brunswicker reinforcements arrive at the end........

The small town of Uccle received a barrage from some French heavy artillery and in the fire the brigade commander was killed by some falling masonry.......

....and caused this, the town of Uccle deserted and French troops ready to enter......

Clint and Brian discuss the disaster Ray led them in to......

....and two more honorary Rejects join the ranks!