It was time again for a SYW battle in the club and I had my rules SEVEN YEARS, updated now to 4.0. This time we alternated the movement of all as per brigade by brigades each opponent - and it worked very well. In case you are interested, have a look under:
https://meneken.blogspot.com/p/seven-years-set-of-rules-for-gaming.html
Bart brought his Saxons collection, mainly guns and infantry, while I lend him my Austrian cavalry against my own Prussian collection. As it turned out, Mike, Peter and Alisdair wanted to fight for Frederich II, so I had the honour to side with Tim and Bart, fighting for the Saxon/Austrians. I let the players move into the field by brigade by brigade (of their choosing), while we had a simultaneous command/staff officer allocation phase but then the execution of the orders brigade by brigade alternating by player - the one with the highest initiative started.
So the beginning was organically and little bit like Guibert's attack system... and slow. But then especially Alisdair with the Prussian medium gun batteries were peppering the Saxons quite nicely.
The Infantries were entangled into heavy fire fights and Mikes Prussian cavalry attack was initially beaten back. Unfortunately for Tim the Austrian cavalry could not dislodge their Prussian counterpart and therefore threaten the overwhelming Prussian guns. So Tims infantry started to advance ... into their doom.
We had to stop, because of time constrains, but due to Alisdairs killing skill with his artillery, we Austro-Saxons had to concede defeat - an entire brigade of 3 infantry battalions was been blown to pieces.
The new changes to the rules worked well and everybody seemed happy. Bart had some other ideas regarding the support of guns (that guns can support, but cannot be supported... hmm maybe only if they are "loaded") ... but we will test this another time.
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| Peter, the Prussian CinC, observes the situation, and Tim wonders ... |
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| Our Hussars were beaten and send backwards initially ... |
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| ..while the Prussian cuirassiers first victorious standing now exposed... |
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| The others Prussian Cavalry brigade stood firm |
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| While we slowly advancing and spreading out ... |
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| I had the "new" blue brigade and managed to repell the cuirassiers |
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| ... combined fire usually does it ... |
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| ... sending the Black Hussars back to Berlin ... |
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| But then another fresh infantry brigade arrived, damn! |
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| ... and the cavalry was beaten, but sadly not destroyed! |
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| While the Prussian artillery hit us and killed with unchallenged impunity ... |
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| The Prussian Cavalry blocked their Austrian counterparts advance ... |
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| While our centre got more and more decimated ... ouch! |
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| But in the end our fire was too weak to settle the scores in our favour ... |
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| Alisdair and his deadly guns ... |
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| We had a strong defensive line ... |
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| But the Prussians did us not the favour to attack us head on ... |
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| So they shot us from afar ... |
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