Another war another piece of the French country side... This time I am playing the German side of the conflict and my old friend Gerry Lane is oposite me.
At first most of the action is on my right I am not familar with the rules (Big Bloody battles if I remember correctly) so I was happy to wait a few turns befor gettign stuck in.
Gerry had a regiment of French light infantry deployed up frought the should have died quick but it turned into Hugomont on a smaller scale. My intitial fire stunned the denders and my Saxon troops lowered bayonets to charge.
Only to be repusled, it tooka nother attack with an addition brigade joining int to clear the town a two hour delay in game time that I could ill afford.
My excellent Prussian grand battery had bad luck they shorred hits but kept running out of amuntion (randomly, not a game feture I like).
Sacon cavalry didn't get the memo that this is 1870 not 1670 and charrged foward....
They did manage to fend off some french cavalry but were lossing lots of men to fire. My Artilery finaly got enough damage on one French unit for me to move up.. too little to late we are out of time (sadly the prervious game hadn't gotten clean up in time so we lost almost an hour to set up time...) If we had been able to play ther three turns left to us in game time we might have pulled it out or perhaps not. I like the game system on the whole excepting the random out of amunition rules which don't seem right to me.
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