Sunday School: Mech War 15mm

 Chris' Soviets v. Renfrey's Germans

Deployment on maps.  Germans on far side.

Both sides divied their infantry between the bvillage & farm.  The Germans concentrated ther armour on their left & centre, the Russians spread theirs out over the whole front.  The T34/76's hwere initailly isolated & the Germans imitially had armour superiority on the far flank & centre as the T34/76's rushed forward onto the German's right flank. 

The Germans wiped out most of the T34/85's before the T34/76's could engage, but then redeployed to meet them.  But they lost 2 Mk IVs & the JS2's popped a Tiger.

The T34/76s closed the range on the MkIVs & though losing 2 to 1 they ahd twice as  many to lose.  The Germasn have moved their MK IVs on the their left towards the centre (just off shot) & popped a JS2.  Both detachments of German infantry attacked.  In the farm their assault was stopped by a voley of 6's.  In the village, they made some progress but pulled back as the Soviets soaked up the losses. 

The Germans pulled back onto the plateau to concentrate their remaining armour as the Soviets converged on them from two directions.

The Germasn tried to escape being flanked by charging down the hill at the T34/76's.  But they couldn't kill the Soviets fast enough & they were shot up from behind.

So a hard won Soviet victory.

15mm Napoleonic 6 players

With Chris & renfrey back from UK trip & Mike back on deck after his postate op, we ahd 6 players. Each was allotted a diviision of 6 innfatyr, 3 cavalry & 1 gun with random deploymenr zones.

French:  Jim centre left, Mike centre right, Chris near RH corner.
Prussians: Refrey in far RH corner.
Austrians: Mark near LH corner, SteveJ far LH corner.

At the far end Renfrey & Mike squared off against each other while SteveJ advanced on Jim.
At this end, Jim deployed par tof his force facing Steve & attacked Mark with the rest. as Chris marched off the hill to support him.
Jim's French lost every close combat & his detachment facing Mark was wiped out before Chris could intervene.

Chris eventually got to grips with Mark's force & defeated it, but SteveJ's first charge broke the LH end of Jim'a line & his artillery blew the next battalion outofo the house.  The VFrench had to withdraw to prevent being rolled up from the flank.

On the far flank Renrey & Mike were slyugging it out with neither getting a decisive advanatge. afra flanl   

On the far flank, Rrenrey gained a small advnatage, thought Mike was holled up in the woods & hard to finaih off. 
On the neara flank Jim's division was chewed up by Steve before Chris could rescue him & Chris' looked doomed as well.  The French conceded the battle..

15mm Napoleonic

 Prussians & Austrians (Renfrey) v. French (Jim).

The Allies were the defenders.  Their  mission was to deny the French access accross the table along the road.  They deployed first anywhere on the table.  The French came on in columns from the enar table edge.

The French deployed 2 of their 3 infnatry divisions in the centre, 1 on the right with half their cavalry on each flank.   Bothsides deployed at a safe disyance in the centre while all the action was on the far flank.  The French cavalry galloped down the far tabe eedge with infantry following behind. 
 

A forlorn hope of Austrians in the farm put up strong resistance & though eventually overcome, they significantly weakened the French attack & with some reinforcements from the centre the Austrians stoped the French attack.

A charge of the last of the Austrian Cuirassiers could have routed the French right, but the French infantry line managed to stop them. 
The Auistrians had lost 5 units shaken to the French 2, but the French flanking force had only 2 units left unshaken on the flank, so it was unable to advance further. 
The Fench saw no likely prospect of successfully forcing the river line frontally & nightfall was approaching, so they called off the attack, conceding victory to the Allies.

 

Napoleonic 15mm

French (Jim) on near side of table.
Austrians (Mark) on the left far side. 
Prussians (SteveJ) on the right far side.

The French stormed over the bridge & thru the village to occupy it.

The Austrians advanced to put pressure on the French left. 
The Prussians held back their left, but attacked the village with converging musket fire & artillery.
The French defence of the village was hampered by the hedgrows & house preventing their own artillrey to directly assist the defence.  

On the near flank the Austrian attack was looking dangerous until the French moved their right flank artillery to support their left.  The added firepower helped stop the Austrian attack. 
Meanwhile the allies gradully pushed the French back through the village.

The removal of the French artillery from their right flank has encouraged the Prussians to advance their whole as the French fell back through the village generally pulling their shaken troops out before they broke. 

On the left, the Austrians have pulled back to escape the fire of all 4 French guns.
In the centre, the Allies have taken all the village up to the river.
On the right, the French have been reinforced by the return of the artillery sent to the left.  This persuaded the Prussians to halt thei advance.  

As night fell the two armies faced each other across the creek, both happy to declare victory & cease fighting. 

The casualtes were about equal.  The Allies probbably missed thweir best chance by not attacking the French righ immediately they transferred their guns to the other flank.  The delay allowed the French to use them to help stop the Austrians & return in time to help stop the Prussians. 

Bolt Action

Jim's Germans v. Renfrey's Brits: 1260 pts, 10'x6' table.
Turn 0 deployment within 24" of own table edge. Germans on far side.
4 objectives: The 2 bridges & the  2 T junctions (one off shot on the left).

The Brits moved quickly to sieze the 2 bridges.
The Germans grabbed the 2 T junctions.

Aided by accurate mortar fire, the Germns destoyed the Brits holding the LH bridge & took that objective. On the fra flank the Germans were unable to stop the Brius taking the T juctiion from them. 

By tuirn 5 both sides had 2 objectives no real hoipe of gainiung more, but the body count favoured the Germans & they pulled back their left to ambush positions at the foot of the far hill & dug in around the objectives they had.
The Brits conceded that they ahd no hope of taking out enough German units tochange the balance, so a minor win to the Germans thru destroying 2  more units than they lost.  

Bolt Action

 Mike's Brits v. Mark's Germans. 1250 pts.

The battlefield was recycled from last week.  Germans on the left.  Objectives on the two bridges & the two T-junctions.  

The Germans held 2 objective to 1 with one in dispute until the 6th turn when the Brits assaulted & destroyed 2 german infantry units & rushed 2 objectives.

This will be the last Camp Cromwell battle for a few weeks as I am setting off on mainland road trip tomorrow. 

Napoleonic: French v. Austrians

Same armies as last time.  Terrain tweraked abit.  Battle fought crosswise.
Austrians: Jim & Mike.  French: Mark.

View frim behind Austrian right.

The Austrians initially advance cautiously on the whoel front.
The French are sending their cavalry reserve from centre to left & advancing into the central farm.

On the near flank, the Austrians pull their cavalry back in the face of superiot numbers whioe light troops skirmish in the orchard.
In the centre the Frencj deploy onthe river line while the Austrians pull back out of artillery range.
On the far flank the Austrians have adavnced around the French right flank which has been pulled back to the river line.

At this point the French decide to retreat while the going is good. 
They were reluctant to chance a cavalry attack on the right as it woull be 50/50.
The centre wa s stalemate.
On the far flank the Austrians had deployed a massed battery & a ring of muskets aimed at the angle & the French decided they couldn't counter the inevitable converging attack hat. 

Have decided that, we decided it would be fun to actually fight the cavalry battle.  The French actually won the cavalry fight, but with significant cost & their infantry was held off in the fields & they could not exploit the win.

Napoleonic: French v. Austrians

 French: Jim & Steve
Austrians: Mark & Mike
Each player had a small corps of 6 or 7 inf, 2 or 3 cav & 2 guns.
Random deployment gave a batle fough lengthwise on the table.

The French are in the foregaround, Jim on the left facing Mark, Steve facing Mike. 

Both sides made a limited advance. The Austrians are transferring all their cavalry to their right flank.

On the right the Austrians crossed the river.
On the left the French took upa reverse slope posiiton on the ridge, but were attacked by infantry & cavalry.  The Austrains ost theri first wave, but their second wave broke the French infantry on the ridge & the French cavalry joined in a retreat back to the river line. 
On the right the French are counterattacking the Austrian advance up the slope. 

On the left the Austrians are regrouping as the French make a new defemse line on the river. 
On the right a confused fight is continuing.

On the left the Austrians have initiated a fire fight on the river line.
On the right the Austrians have fallen back over the river.

On the right neither side has enough fit trioops left to attack.
On the left, the French were getting the worst of the firefight & have fallen back through the farm.

Both sides had lost similar numbers of units broken, but the Austirnas have a clear advantage in unsghaken troops.  It was decided that the French could hold out until nightfsll & make an orderly withdrawal.