French attack

[Leman (Andy)]

Completed another Walter Schnaffs game on Monday. This time however the French were committed to an attack as the Prussians performed dismally in the pre-game campaign. Although the Prussians were in defence with many troops in reserve, they constructed a difficult terrain to get through, which slowed up the French. On top of this the Prussian corps artillery delivered a successful bombardment, which further slowed the French.

As the game came towards its conclusion the French acquired a hold the line asset which enabled them to avoid a morale check, but were then held by withering fire. And then the Prussians rolled 6 and the game ended. The French had lost a lot of troops, including two full regular units, and they had only taken the two closest objectives. As a consequence the Prussians had held the field that day.

[Sean Clark]

Nice picture Leman! Nice report too. I'm tempted to try Franco Prussian at some point probably in 6mm though us8ng Baccus. Are yours Pendraken..? They are tempting too!

[Leman (Andy)]

The picture is courtesy of you pointing me towards Tiny pic; many thanks for that. Yes the figures are predominantly Pendraken 10mm, but there are a couple of Irregular figures in there as well (the mounted Prussian officer is the most noticeable in shot). This is one of my major gaming periods so I was really pleased to be able to use this stuff with Square Bashing. However I also do a lot of FPW in 6mm specifically for the Bloody Big Battles rules, which make refighting the historical scenarios on a 6x4 possible in almost all cases, including the likes of Mars la Tour and Gravelotte-St.Privat. Most of my 6mm Bavarians are Baccus:

[martin goddard]

they look good. They convey mass well.

[Leman (Andy)]

I am not averse to using different scale figures for different levels of game. I like my 15mm WWI figures for company level games. I tend to use them with scenarios that could have happened within a historical setting, e.g. protecting a group of Belgian refugees as they try to get off the table, a surprise attack on a German forward supply dump, holding an important river crossing. I have found the book Scenarios For All Ages by Grant and Asquith to be very useful for this, as well as developing scenarios in Neil Thomas' One Hour Wargames.

[martin goddard]

Simon(no not one of ours) from Wiltshire did two armies of 10mm for the SB day back in 2000?? they looked really good. He had gone for pale colours with a wash to bring out the detail. I believe they were Turkish and Brit armies. I believe he doubled everything, but retained the base size. So a gun base had two guns on it.  Very nice.