Showing posts with label 1758. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1758. Show all posts
Sunday, 21 June 2020
Re-inforcements are coming! - Hungarians!
Joseph Esterhazy regiment (I.R 37) - raised during the War of Austrian Succession, it participated in the Seven Years War in the battles at Prag, Breslau, Hochkirch and Liegnitz. I chosen them mainly because of the nice uniform. ... I also started the Erzherzog Carl(I.R. 2) ... indeed also because of the nice colour combination. As most miniature provider sell Austrins SYW infantry with PomPoms - I was naturally going with the 1762 uniform versions.
Tuesday, 17 March 2020
Moravia 1758
It was Seven Years War, 28mm, my toys and my rules (Seven Years) again a fictional battle / skirmish. The Prussian had to leave Moravia, as most of their army already had, through a mountain pass into Silesia. But as is the fate of stragglers, they knew there would be some resistance upcoming (in the form of an Austrian brigade) and to make it " a little" (haha!) tougher, a little Hungarian Hussar / Grenzer hunting party was chasing them.
Bart volutneered to be the Austrian brigadier, Peter the chasing Hungarian, and Mike and Alisdair the unfortunate Prussians. Points would be awarded only for Prussians who made it off the right table edge (and some carts and mules, in the same quality category as all units, especially their leaders weren‘t that good.)
Mike and Alisdair got an initial double move and made good progress, but then Barts brigade blocked their way. Their efforts to circumvent or to punch a hole into the thin white line were rather unfruitful and seemingly unorchestrated. Even though Peter (aka the chasing Hungarian) rolled for a long time until his troopers were allowed onto the battle field.
When this happened his skirmishers went for the waggons and even Alisdairs last ditch charge (with his veteran grenadiers) failed the Prussian fate was sealed. An overwhelming Austrian victory!
On the other side I have to agree that the scenario rules were more brutal than I had anticipated! It was rather extreemly difficult for the Prussians to make it through. But on the good side my skirmishing rules work, within some battle context. I've not set out to design a pure skirmishing rule set.
Having said that, I probably can get my hands on a review/ re-editing of the rules, as this %"§$%&567...ing virus shuts peux a peux everything down.
Photos by Bart, as I forgot to pack my camera ...
P.S. No real Prussians were harmed or killed in this battle, as it were my Hessian AWI contingent that thankfully agreed to step in as gaiter free Prussians ...
Take care everybody!
Bart volutneered to be the Austrian brigadier, Peter the chasing Hungarian, and Mike and Alisdair the unfortunate Prussians. Points would be awarded only for Prussians who made it off the right table edge (and some carts and mules, in the same quality category as all units, especially their leaders weren‘t that good.)
Mike and Alisdair got an initial double move and made good progress, but then Barts brigade blocked their way. Their efforts to circumvent or to punch a hole into the thin white line were rather unfruitful and seemingly unorchestrated. Even though Peter (aka the chasing Hungarian) rolled for a long time until his troopers were allowed onto the battle field.
When this happened his skirmishers went for the waggons and even Alisdairs last ditch charge (with his veteran grenadiers) failed the Prussian fate was sealed. An overwhelming Austrian victory!
On the other side I have to agree that the scenario rules were more brutal than I had anticipated! It was rather extreemly difficult for the Prussians to make it through. But on the good side my skirmishing rules work, within some battle context. I've not set out to design a pure skirmishing rule set.
Having said that, I probably can get my hands on a review/ re-editing of the rules, as this %"§$%&567...ing virus shuts peux a peux everything down.
Photos by Bart, as I forgot to pack my camera ...
P.S. No real Prussians were harmed or killed in this battle, as it were my Hessian AWI contingent that thankfully agreed to step in as gaiter free Prussians ...
Take care everybody!
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| initial set up |
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| the Prussian tross |
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| The Austrian tross |
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| The Austrians quickly expanding |
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| The Prussians advance |
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| The white line |
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| The Prussians form line |
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| And trying to circumvent the lines |
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| But will be blocked by Austrian dragoons (as skirmisher here as well) |
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| Then the Hungarians appear |
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| the lines dent |
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| the dragoons keep skirmishing |
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| but fail to punch through |
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| the Hussars fall into the back |
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| ... and onto the baggage train |
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| one last Prussian charge |
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| but their lines are in disarray ... |
Sunday, 3 November 2019
1756 Ekatharina the Great and her army ...
Helen Mirren and HBO are baffling us with a series on said Zarina at the moment, so what better time finish painting my Seven Years War army of Russian "peasants", ready put a little fear back into Fredrick the Great and his (tin-) soldiers to come...
enjoy ...
enjoy ...
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| The whole lot |
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| The Viyatsky Dargoons |
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| The Garde a cheval |
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| The first cavalry brigadier with staff officer |
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| the Artillery brigade with 1st and 3rd Pandurs skirmishers |
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| The artillery brigadier with staff officer and some 6pdrs |
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| The 1st Grenadier regiment ... |
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| and the Preobrazhensky Life Guard |
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| The Novgorod and Schlusselburg regiments with infantry brigadier |
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| The Novgorod and Schlusselburg regiments with a howitzer |
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| the Moskovskiy and Ingermanlandskiy regiments with howitzer |
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| The CinC with staff officer |
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| The Georgian Hussars |
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| The Life Guards (Cuirassiers) |
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| The second cavalry brigadier with staff officer |
Tuesday, 25 June 2019
Ekatharina the Great - Army nucleus
... a piece of self-motivation here I guess ... today, I (nearly apart from varnish and basing) finished the Russian Seven Years War, Curassiers! - Huzzah! And with them basking in the Scottish evening sun, the nucleus of my 28mm Russian Army, some musketiers, some grenadiers and the first two guns. Also supervising the effort some 3 Infantry generals/brigadier commander for the upcoming foot soldiers...
Saturday, 16 February 2019
French Indian War somewhere in the Northern jungle
Michael (the new/old one) decided to run a 15mm Seven Years War/French-Indian War scenario to introduce the gang to Rebel & Patrios. Bart and Angus were the French, while me, Peter and Mike were fighting for the old George. In the middle we had light woods flanked by roads and a hill in the middle and up we go!
My force was rather neat and I managed to travel up to the mid-field and form a line comfortably waiting for the arch-enemy. And Bart did linger there a bit, he probably is better suited for cavalry, I guess. The game started quite nicely, and I really like the activation rolls and the miss happs or glorious moments.
I don‘t know what went wrong, but things were falling apart in the centre and on the other side. Even though I managed to divert some volleys into the centre savages! I had managed to pepper Barts French line quite nicely and had fire superiority, when Peter panic stricken announced, I had to help him, shortly before his centre units got wiped out.
I had to divert my large new recruit unit to block the incoming savages, giving up my upper hand in fire power! - Then the Scotts rolled a double one and, by all means, decided to charge right into the killing field before the French.
That was when the battle was over. Naturally the Scots got more than blisters and my greenies were attacked by a large Iroqoui unit and mauled. Apparently there is no such thing as closing fire in these rules - well its a skirmish game! My flank had gone from very successful to intolerable within two moves. In character, I feigned disgust about the ineptitude of my fellow officers and bargained with Bart free retreat (against a gun) and left the field.
All in all it was a very enjoyable game, and Mike‘s 15mm are a beauty to game with.
My force was rather neat and I managed to travel up to the mid-field and form a line comfortably waiting for the arch-enemy. And Bart did linger there a bit, he probably is better suited for cavalry, I guess. The game started quite nicely, and I really like the activation rolls and the miss happs or glorious moments.
I don‘t know what went wrong, but things were falling apart in the centre and on the other side. Even though I managed to divert some volleys into the centre savages! I had managed to pepper Barts French line quite nicely and had fire superiority, when Peter panic stricken announced, I had to help him, shortly before his centre units got wiped out.
I had to divert my large new recruit unit to block the incoming savages, giving up my upper hand in fire power! - Then the Scotts rolled a double one and, by all means, decided to charge right into the killing field before the French.
That was when the battle was over. Naturally the Scots got more than blisters and my greenies were attacked by a large Iroqoui unit and mauled. Apparently there is no such thing as closing fire in these rules - well its a skirmish game! My flank had gone from very successful to intolerable within two moves. In character, I feigned disgust about the ineptitude of my fellow officers and bargained with Bart free retreat (against a gun) and left the field.
All in all it was a very enjoyable game, and Mike‘s 15mm are a beauty to game with.
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| Initial deployment |
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| I had the left flank some Greenies and Scots, a small Grenadier unit and a gun |
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| Barts Frenchies looked not too impressive |
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| We even managed to form up a line |
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| With some wild Scots as back up |
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| The French comfortably in the distance |
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| Mikes unit cards (very useful) |
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| Within gun range ... |
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| The peppering (amusement) is starting ... |
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| Hold the line! |
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| in the meantime the middle ... |
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| yeah ... lost somehow ... |
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| The Natives are coming! |
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| Crashing through the ranks |
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| making minced meat out of our lobsters |
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| Followed up by just a ridiculously small French unit!!! |
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| ... So I had to deny them the flank ... |
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| ... or try dying denying ... |
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| After a gentlemen agreement we left the gun and the field beaten. |
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