Slitherine

In the early hours of 16th June 1812, France Invaded Russia and the first clash of armies was captured by our intrepid War Correspondant with an early version of the "Box Brownie"! Pushing forward on the flank of the French advance, Oudinot's 4 Division Corps came face to face with Wittingsen's 3 Division Russian Corps in a strong defensive position. Surely time to give these dastardly frogs their firstly bloody nose and teach them that no-one invades the "Motherland"!

Both Armies seemed to have the same plan, refuse the left and attack on the right. On the French Left, the French put their Conscript Division consisting of 3 Conscript brigades with a supporting artillery to the right, to hold off the strong Russian force attacking them.



The Russians ( a veteran Grenadier with artillery attachment, average line with Artillery attachment, average jager,hussars and an artillery battery deployed forward):-



On the right the French commited 2 strong Divisions with Cavalry support hoping to force the Ruskies from their strong defensive position on the line of hills.



The Russian Position to the right with a further Brigade of Jager in the rough:-



The French attack develops - 5 Brigades of Infantry, 2 Batterys and 2 Cavalry Brigades committed to the action.



In the centre, the Russian Dragoons, slipped around the side of the hill to force the Polish Uhlans out of the game.



Oops - that didn't go to plan - disrupted and spent, the dragoons retire chased by the Uhlans!



Still the Russian position of the left was bullet proof!!



Or at least it was until the French in a hail of (very accurately shot bullets) forced the Russian Artillery and Infantry to retire off the off the hill disordered, compelling the Pavlov's to fall back as well or become isolated.

On the Russian right, the strike Infantry Division was just about to get to grips with the Froggy conscripts and teach them "what for" especially with the French Chasseurs a Cheval wavering under a hail of Russian roundshot from 2 batterys!!!



However with that night fell and after a fierce manouevring encounter the Russians fell back intent on living to fight another day with their Corps intact - the French now knew the Russians were no pushover!!

Russians played by myself with the French commanded by Marshall Jim Gibson - great game - if only night (and reality) hadn't intervened!!

I'll post up later some thoughts on the game but the rules work really well with some fantastic nuances and lots of decision points to consider!!

Don

Thanks for the photos and comments! This is greatly appreciated.

[Slithery Ones: Could we not get proper sub-forums?]

What can I say a reasonable write up by my comrade, not the biased report I was expecting.

Its roughly our 3rd/4th game and here are some comments.

Our first game we probably got 50% wrong but thought there's a good game in their and we need to persevere.
We got ourselves a good SOP/ process list of when to do things and some cheat sheets. 2nd game improved in all aspects.

Last nights game we kept to the process and doing things in order and Wow what a game. The more I play these rules the more I love them. I think they work and just ooze the flavour of a Napoleonic battle.
We got the odd thing wrong but no big deal and there's so many decision points and nuances that are going to more than reward those who get through the early treacle/gripes justified or not.
So thanks Mike and Terry.
We have a 4 player game in 10 days time. 1600pts (2 corps a side) using my 6mm based on 15mm bases. Hopefully I can persuade our intrepid reporter to get his camera and pen out that day.
cheers
Jim

Lovely pics. I love seeing napoleonic figs on a table locked in combat. Just makes me drool. Haha. I really feel FoG:N looks great on a table. I have to agree with you on the more you play this game the better it gets. I am up to 4 or 5 games now and find I like it more every time I play it and come to understand the rules better. I have found the ToN book to be fabulous as well. yes there are some mistakes here and there but those can be dealt with. I can only expect the game will get better as things progress too. Cant wait for the next army book to see what it will add to the game.

Jeremy

plato wrote:Lovely pics. I love seeing napoleonic figs on a table locked in combat. Just makes me drool. Haha. I really feel FoG:N looks great on a table. I have to agree with you on the more you play this game the better it gets. I am up to 4 or 5 games now and find I like it more every time I play it and come to understand the rules better. I have found the ToN book to be fabulous as well. yes there are some mistakes here and there but those can be dealt with. I can only expect the game will get better as things progress too. Cant wait for the next army book to see what it will add to the game.

Jeremy

Many thanks for those generous comments