My Metal Meneken: 1813 - The long Bridge - Fictional Napoleonic battle

Thursday 17 October 2024

1813 - The long Bridge - Fictional Napoleonic battle - Austrians vs Franco-Poles

It was time for a 28mm, Napoleonic Black Powder 2 game!

Bart and Alistair and Campbell were fighting with Barts collection for that Bonaparte, while me and Tim and Bart (the younger but also Polish) were fighting for the true Emperor Franz with my 28mm Austrians.

We both had around 800pts agreed beforehand: I had a grenadier brigade a veteran Hungarian brigade and a Grenzer brigade, plus a light cavalry and a heavy cavalry brigade, each commander was topped up to command 8 - in return my brigades were just 3 units big... including the guns - very brittle.

The field was a little river and a bridge with two BUAs next to it on each side - box standard - basically who had the bridge wins ...

First the Frenchies rushed forward to the river and shot at us ... then we moved and hrrm more or less successful forward. Then Alisdairs Guns blundered and rushed over the river limbered... ouch! Tim and Bart the younger charged forward. Then in our centre, my guards and Grenadiers moved forward - both armies were basically lining up next to the river...

Then Bart the older charged my village (BUA) and failed and broke and ripped a big hole into his line - Huzzah! Tim was even charging Alisdairs square and nearly broke it! Campbell charged and failed to break Bart the younger. For the record, Bart the older "considered" retreat!!! it looked abysmal for the Poles. We should have then stayed and shot the F... out of them, but ...

But then Tim charged with the Hungarian out of the Woods and failed a break test that followed - then Bart counter-attacked my brittle Grenadiers and wiped them out ... we basically missed a complete centre - a victory ripped out of our hands that can only happen to Austrians ... a very long and eventful battle that could have gone either way - but ended Austrian- style ...

We will do it again, same style and win the war anyway, hehe.

Joke aside, the Austrian cavalry and the shooting was not to be trifled with, but then we lost again by attacking, hahaha! Bring the Austrians to attack and you win...