A little solo General d'Armee

 

Having painted more troops to fill in the disparities of our last game I set up another General d'Armee game to play through the rules again.

Each side had four brigades, the French two each of cavalry and infantry, the Anglo-allies one Hanoverian foot, one Kings German Legion foot (veterans), one British foot and one British horse.

I rolled up for random positioning and against the odds both sides started the game with two brigades in reserve.

Seeing the Hanoverian foot exposed on the right the French went all out for them and summoned up some of their cavalry reserves while maneuvering the guns to cover the British. The Anglo-allies bought on their KGL foot to shore up the center.

And I stopped taking overview shots after turn two, so here are some highlights.

The French foot pushed on to the Hanoverians who withdrew in good order before them until the KGL foot were in a position to support them.

With the French foot advancing on the KGL and Hanoverians it looked like they could deploy into line and overwhelm them while chipping away with their artillery and skirmishers.

The British light dragoons launched the first charges of the game, one of them failed terribly against the French Hussars seeing them retreat in some disorder, they fared slightly better against some Chasseurs a'Cheval, but the most telling action was forcing a battalion of French foot into square to have them savaged by the KGL volleys.

The French went into somewhat of a malaise, Hanoverian skirmishing fire felled the Brigade commander opposite them and KGL volleys broke the square which fled in disorder to the rear and apparently did not stop running until it reached Charleroi.

The British cavalry in a true reflection of their type responded with the Light Dragoons attempting to charge the French guns, the close range cannister was not as effective as it could have been, but the result was as expected.

The KGL foot, their blood up charged home on the French infantry who had already suffered from the unequal exchanges of fire and another French infantry battalion scurried from the field. 

The French foot formed a line to overwhelm the Hanoverians and every units volley was so ineffective that they all lost their fire discipline.

The French Hussars despite urging from Ney had a very extended period of Hesitancy and with the British committing their third infantry Brigade to the battle it was time for the remaining French to withdraw and fight another day.

So much for painting new troops, I left four battalions of foot, two regiments of horse and a battery of guns in reserve unused!