Sunday Rich invited me to take place in a fictional Prussian defense
of Prague during the War of Austrian Succession.
I
had command of the Cavalry of the Prussian Left with a couple of units of Grenadiers
to provide a back stop. Arofan my opposite number played waiting game
hitting me with a battery as I had no gun to reply.
The
Austrians in the center moved forward and took devastating punishment from the
Prussian grand battery.
The
Austrians set on of the objectives on fire taking those objective points away from
us.
Some
cheeky Austrian hussars tried to slip into our rear and had to be chased off.
Far
to the right the Austrians are on the march and would soon start pressing that
flank hard.
After
several turns of being hit with artillery I ordered my lead brigade to advance
but only one unit went forward.
Despite
disruption of the stone wall we overthrew our counterpart who were caught
flatfooted.
this
touched off a swirling cavalry battle that was one of the most complicated I
can recall. If the Austrian moral hadn't been hammered by the losses in
the center Arofan would probably have done much better he had me out numbed
about 3 to 2.
The
battle ended with the Austrian moral reduced to 72% and over 25% casualties.
the 7th Cuirassiers earned honors under my command.
What system were you running for this? I don't know much about historical wargaming in regards to common rule sets, but am interested in how they work. I did like the mechanics of Frostgrave as you and my son explained it. Very inventive.
ReplyDeleteits a system called Carnage and Glory its a computer aided set. We manuver on the table but the computer handles all the dice rolling keeping track of many things that would be cumberson.
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