A scenario based on the battle of Jemappes of 1792 between the revolting French & the Austrians. In the real battle the Austrians were outnumbered about 14,000 to 36,000. I tweeked the OOB to reduce the discrpancy so the French had a 50% advantage in points. The key issues being retained - that is a mob of half trained by zealous Frigs against a smaller professional army in a good defensive position. The figures are PeterC's 15mm on loan.
French: Mike & Mark.
Austrians: Jim & Chris.
Pic from the French side. Only the Austrians visible to the French are on the table. Austrian infnatry & artillery a manning defensive works on the ridge between two woods.
The French make a general advance with a weighted right flank & theri cavalry on their left.
The French attack the woods on the right & discover yegers in the woods on both flanks.
The yegers fall back in the far woods behind a line of grenadiers. The French charge the grenadiers in mass. In the centre the artillery exchange fire as the French infantry mostly stay just out of artillery range.
As a hot fight continues in the far woods, the French advance towards the near wood. On the ridge, the Austrians have retired some units shaken by artillery & replaced them with fresh troops.
In the far wood the Grenadiers saw off the first wave, but the second wave broke them. The Austrians have pulled back from the far end of the ridge to avoid being attacked in flank. Sustrain cavalry ahs been revealed covering both flanks. The French cavalry have begun to advance on teh Austrian right.
The Austrians have pulled back their left as the French move on thee angel in their line.
Austrian infantry are holding on in the near wood.
The Aistrians have sent some of their left flank cavary to supprt their right flank which is under attack by the French cavalry.
At 10pm we called nightfall.
The French have lost 5 inf & 2 art broken, 4 inf & 3 art shaken.
The Austrians have 3 inf broken, 3 inf, 1 cav & 2 art shaken.
The French still have 16 inf, 6 cav & 3 art fit to fight.
The Austrians only have 6 inf, 5 cav & 4 art fit to fight & have been driven out of their defensive position.
Clearly the Austrians will have to retreat overnight & the French will claim victory.
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