Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Napoleonics: French v. Austrians

French:
Steve:  2 cav brigades of 2 dragoons, 1 hussar plus 1 horse gun.
Mitch & Rob: Each 1 infantry division od 4 line, 1 light & 1 gun.
Austrians:
Mike: 1 infantry brigade of 6 line, 1 grenadier, 1 gun
John: 1 infnatry brigade of 6 landwehr,   yeger & 2 guns.
Tyler: 2 cavalry brigades of 1 cuirassier, 1 dragoon, 1 hussar.
The French are on the left.  Both sides put their cavalry on the near flank.  The Landwehr are in the Austrian centre. 
Both side hold back with their cavalry.  The French advance in the centre.  The Austrians have sent 2 battalions on a flanking mission on the far side. 
The French attack on the ridge was successful on their left making a hole in the Austrian line.  But their right was stopped & the Landwehr are counterattacking the French right.
The Austrian flank march was stopped by French deployed in the RH orchard.  The French attempt to widen the breach has been countered.  Mike has been trying to counterattack out of the LH orchard but has been thwarted by bad command dice.
The cavalry has finally started to advance on each other. 
Both Austrian infantry divisions are now couterattacking.
 The centre French infantry division has broken, the other is hard pressed.
The cavalry fight is providing mixed results.
The cavalry fight has ended in stalemate with both sides losing 1 brigade & the other too shaken to continue fighting.  
The Austrian line division has broken, but the Landwehr outnumber the surviving French division & are slowly closing in for the kill.
The French infantry break next move to give the Austrians are hard fought victory.

2 comments:

Gonsalvo said...

The classic Napoleonic match up!
Nice to see the Kaiserlicks win one for the Erzherzog!

fireymonkeyboy said...

So, Imperial French vs. Germano-French? ;)