As a final preparation for our upcoming Marengo campaign we fought a Zoom battle between 2 small corps typical of the campaign on dense farmland that is likely in the Po valley.
French: CIC: Dale (in Canberra). Right flank: Steve (in Canberra). Left flank: Dave (in Molesworth). Plastic pusher & forward scout on table: Chris.
Austrians: CIC: Mark (in Lenah Valley). Left flank (Steve in Pontville). Plastic pusher & forward scout on table: Jim.
There is a fixed tripod mounted camera at each end of the table & a smart phone camera in the hand of the current plastic pusher.
The Zoom gallery view on my desktop PC with 3 table views & 5 remote players. The remote players can select any view to be full screen. Next week it should be better still as we intend to have another hand held smartphone working so the plastic pushers won't have to share one.
Unfortunately the picture quality on the blog is less than usual as my best cameras are in use with the Zoom system & I'm using a pre-smartphone digital camera for the still pics.
The Austrians are on the left, French on the right.
On the east end of the line, the French are advancing against the Austrian right flank.
Both sides sent skirmishers forward on the western flank. Artillery is exchanging fire across the vineyard
A firefight is raging on the eastern flank.
The Grenz have been driven back. In the centre the Austrian grenadiers have advanced & driven the French skirmishers back into the orchard. s have attacked greandiers
The Austrians are getting the worst of it in the firefight on the eastern flank.
The French are now advancing on the weakened Austrian right.
On the western front the Grenz are about to break & a swarm of skirmishers is advancing on the Grenadiers.
The Austrian left is being whittled down by a swarm of French skirmishers. Most untis on their right are close to half strength. Their attempt to change the game with their cavalry was beaten back.
As the French close in on both flanks, the Austrians concede defeat & are withdrawing.
The terrain gave the French a distinct advantage tonight with their greater ability to skirmish being particularly valuable in dense terrain like this. The remote players all reported that the Zoom system worked really well for them & gave the cameramen some good feedback. Having two plastic pushers was lot easier than just one as in our previous game (& allowed under our local lock-down rules as the table is more than 1.5m wide). A post-battle discussion about the tactical rules lead to the conclusion that there were pretty right & no change was needed.
Tomorrow we will kick off a Marengo 1800 campaign. The campaign will be run by email using the same system we used in our 1809 Spanish campaign in 2018 & our 1862 Shenandoah campaign in 2019, just with a few improvements. I am umpiring the campaign with 4 remote players on each side plus Chris to help me with the battles to be fought by Zoom. Maybe we will have our first battle of the campaign next Tuesday.
French: CIC: Dale (in Canberra). Right flank: Steve (in Canberra). Left flank: Dave (in Molesworth). Plastic pusher & forward scout on table: Chris.
Austrians: CIC: Mark (in Lenah Valley). Left flank (Steve in Pontville). Plastic pusher & forward scout on table: Jim.
Unfortunately the picture quality on the blog is less than usual as my best cameras are in use with the Zoom system & I'm using a pre-smartphone digital camera for the still pics.
The terrain gave the French a distinct advantage tonight with their greater ability to skirmish being particularly valuable in dense terrain like this. The remote players all reported that the Zoom system worked really well for them & gave the cameramen some good feedback. Having two plastic pushers was lot easier than just one as in our previous game (& allowed under our local lock-down rules as the table is more than 1.5m wide). A post-battle discussion about the tactical rules lead to the conclusion that there were pretty right & no change was needed.
Tomorrow we will kick off a Marengo 1800 campaign. The campaign will be run by email using the same system we used in our 1809 Spanish campaign in 2018 & our 1862 Shenandoah campaign in 2019, just with a few improvements. I am umpiring the campaign with 4 remote players on each side plus Chris to help me with the battles to be fought by Zoom. Maybe we will have our first battle of the campaign next Tuesday.
2 comments:
Great looking table! I will be involved in my first remote video wargame tomorrow (US and Scotland!).
Is there a post about how you handle your campaigns?
Gonsalvo: My email address is in the blog sub-heading if you'd like to chat & find out more. I'm limited in what I can post on the blog by not wanting to tell the players about the other side's situation.
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