1744 - Somewhere in the mountains between Prussian and Austria

This is a fictional scenario, maybe in the Second Silesian War - Invasion over the mountain pass - The Prussians (played by Campbell) had 4 line units and 2 converged Grenadier units, 2 light guns (attached) and 1 medium gun, 1 skirmishing unit (Jäger) and 2 cavalry. The Prussian units were smaller than the Austrians, but they were all classed as veterans (so an upgrade for the 4 lines). The Austrians (me) had 5 large line units (classed as regular line), 2 skirmisher (Grenzer), 2 cavalry and 2 light (attached) guns and 2 medium guns. Both had 4 commands, while the Prussians had one additional extra secured staff officer and the cavalry unit deployed on the flank. Both cavalry had only half their strength on the table and the other straggled on (50% per turn to come in later). The hill in the middle was steep and would provide visibility just once the units were over the middle line.

Campbell got the first turn and we both just advanced, I had luck and rolled my second unit of dragoons in quickly, one turn later the Prussians followed. First a cavalry melee started, but was indecisive. Campbell tried to hide behind the hill and decided to win the battle with the horses instead of the Prussian infantry.

While the cavalry battle went back and forth, we both bottlenecked our artillery, which was worse for me, as the Austrians had a better quality and more guns -grumph. The battle was a real slugfest in charges and counter-charges and fire-fights and could have gone both ways. 

First Campbells Prussian made an all front attack that shocked the Austrians to the core! Then the cavalry battle was hanging in the balance, half of my units were retreating and the guns were trying to manhandling themselves into somewhat of shooting positions ... uuch and the command dice weren‘t giving me enough staff officers ... shit ... 

Then suddenly the Prussian horse flank broke. Huzzah! A sweeping advance followed into the medium gun, which "cannistered" the charge into a halt ... which left them in front of said gun in shaken condition ... ouch! So we exchanged the complete right flank. And our horses -  and lost BOTH one command (i.e. also less creating one staff officer!!!).

Due to the lack of SOs, the Austrians had to let go some line units off the table, but finally my guns were in shooting position - still Campbells Prussian did one final charge valiantly - and at that point it was still in the balance - but they thank god they failed to do their trick and were slaughtered ... at the end Campbell conceded defeat,  this mountain pass in the Erzgebirge (ore-mountains???) would be blocked for Friedrich!

I enjoyed it, not only because I won (haha, Bart! the spell is broken!), but because the two forces were so different from each other, Austrians had more and better guns but larger but weaker line units. While The Prussians had the edge in the quality of the infantry (and in the numbers of them).

I had all my newly painted Prussians on the table (just the Jaegers and Grenadiers and Dragoons were AWI extras), and yes, the curse of the "First-Painted-Recruits-in-Battle" still holds ... :)

The veteran Prussians

The masses of the Austrian empire

The initial set up (with the commands and SO‘s in front for demonstration)

Da rules used

The stragglers ... both dragoons

The Prussian advance ...

The Austrians too ...

First fire fights start

And the Prussians hit back hard

All is on the table

The cavalry fight in full swing

The Prussian centre hiding behind the hill

The Austrian dragoons in retreat of heavily pressed ...

The Prussians charge over the hill

A fierce fight breaks lose (draw - both shaken)

The Austrians are heavily shaken and in disarray on the whole line

The hill is still contested

The Black Death Hussars are chasing retreating Austrian dragoons ...

... victorious, but in front of two medium guns ... ouch!

The Prussians are retreating!!!

Still the hill is fiercely contested ...

But the Prussian cavalry is in retreat or shaken ...

Now the Prussian right flank is retreating as well!!!

Now the Austrians are hiding behind the hillside ...

The Prussian seem to leaving the table ...

Time for the Austrians to reform

The Austrians start to pour fire into the Prussians ...

The Prussian cavalry is swept away ...

Time to sweep up the flank ...

Which ended into an ill advised charge of a medium gun ...

Both sides ceased to have here a flank ...

A last ditch attempt of the Prussians in the centre ...

failed and got a counter charge

sweeping away the Prussian centre line ...

The casualties table (left Austrians- right Prussians)