28mm, Second Silesian War - Rulset: (Seven Years) On The Prussian side as Frederick: Peter with his friend Fred and John and Gordon.
While I jumped in as the The Austrian Generalissimo with my Brigadiers, Bart, Alisdair and Tim.
Obviously my name is not Kroesos and I can only field that much on troops, but the blue print of the battle was Soor, just with a lot less units. Just after the Hohenfriedberg disaster the Austrian army wasn't in the best of shape and the surprise attack wasn't going to happen either - short after breakfast time the Prussian line had just arrived behind the road through Burkersdorf where we actually wanted to "surprise" them - how do they do that?
In short the cavalry was equal the guns as well, the skirmishers, just Austrian had one unit more but the Prussian had way more veterans and elite. The Austrians must deploy similar to the historical line plus a 3 turn block of offensive for one cavalry brigade - what could possibly go wrong?
Actually nothing - we peppered them with our guns (every gun just had 6 shots) and then again once they came nearer. They just did not attack until the very last turns!!! John was the only who attacked with his cavalry and thus lost it because Bart was free to concentrate his fire on the poor dragoons and cuirassiers - ouch! 2VP in advance! Then Alisdair, the best artillery commander, shot a whole infantry unit away.
We had a pretty good time. Then our ammo ran out and that was the start of the Prussian attack -They really punched a pack with their re-rolls and quickly two of our line units were dead. But we managed to withdraw our empty guns and Tim attacked with out second cavalry brigade... not much glory for Frederick-Peter this time!
In the end we still kept our 2 VP advance and won this time, Huzzah! Would we had to fight for another 3 turns it would have looked very different - but the end of club time saved our Austrian derrieres.
Rules on: https://meneken.blogspot.com/p/seven-years-set-of-rules-for-gaming.html
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| Initial set up |
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| The Prussian have free re-deployment |
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| And the Bayreuth Dragoons from last time ... |
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| While our units were phlegmatic sitting on the hill ... |
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| But somehow the Prussians were ... |
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| ... not the Prussians today ... |
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| No attack on the Graner-Koppe |
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| only at the very last urns ... |
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| when we send our guns home ... |
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| as they were running out of ammo ... |
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| The guard came out of the Burkersdorf houses ... |
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| not really sure what they should do ... |
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| the scenario set up |
Our Prussian opponents made too many mistakes. They should have attacked with the entire guard instead of sitting behind the village buildings. We wouldn't have had the slightest chance...
ReplyDeleteYup they had some chances. One thing is that many wargamers aren't used to attack on the whole line as most games don't allow that...
ReplyDeleteWow! A battle with mostly HäT-miniatures on the table and it is looking amazing. The photos are looking great. The terrain is simple but effective as I like it. Let the WAS continue!
ReplyDeleteSorry to dissappoint - 28mm Crusader minis mostly or Wargame Foundry... but thank you.
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