The Battle of Loigny/Poupry 1870 - a BBB AAR.

[Steve J]

An AAR of this weeks game can be found on my Blog:

https://wwiiwargaming.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-battle-of-loignypoupry-1870-franco.html

[Chris Pringle]

Thanks for the AAR, Steve! Just a shame you couldn't reproduce the snow-covered battlefield. 

Loigny/Poupry is a fun game and it certainly provides a colourful mix of troops: from Foreign Legion and Papal Zouaves down to garde mobile (aka 'garde fragile') on the French side, and of course Bavarians to lend variety on the German side.

Attacking towns is indeed tough. In retrospect, rating the Towns in that scenario as Villages might have been better, making it easier for them to change hands repeatedly and giving the battle more ebb and flow.

For your forthcoming Crimea trip, I suppose I have a couple of suggestions:
- Kurudere! That should fit your midweek requirements: very easy terrain to set up, manageable forces, plenty of movement, and a real variety of troop types;
- Balaclava! A classic, and a relatively small game.

I'm sure your creative team will come up with something clever to entertain us. Looking forward to the next batrep!

Chris

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[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Top report, looks like a great scrap

[Steve J]

@ Chris. We did think that them all being Towns made it rather tough for either side when they were attackers. Definitely worth trying them as villages. As for the snow terrain, my limited stroage capacity means my scenery has to cover pretty much everything bar the Western Desert!

@ Will. Glad you liked it.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Since I'm going to Le Mans in a fortnight...

[Dave Fielder]

What snow! I was wearing shorts ... Rouge Demi-Pantalons Alors!!

[mmcv]

Good report, looking forward to the Crimean expedition

[Techno]

Nice one, Graham ! 

Cheers - Phil

[Steve J]

Whose Graham? I thought there was only Dave and I playing the game ?

[Techno]

Derrr.......

Sorry, Steve.

I assume I'd looked at another thread, before yours
I wasn't properly awake when I posted 

Cheers - Phil

[Dave Fielder]

I wondered if we had someone extra from Calais under the table that night?

[Westmarcher]

Whew! What a fight. As Brucie would say, "Good game, good game." 

p.s. Crimea next? Wow, you're adventurous. Safe journey and whatever you do, please don't take photos of any Russian military stuff whilst you're there(!).

[Leman]

Always planned to do this one, but most of my republican troops still unpainted and nowadays I seem to be wedded to 1500-1763.

[Steve J]

One day it would be nice to play out the campaign as per the rulebook. Time as always is the issue but something to aspire to.

[Leman]

I've got as far as Beaumont, but just can't work up the enthusiasm to tackle Sedan. Further my campaign partner is a much better player than me and he is also the Prussians. Currently I have won nothing, hence my wandering off to the Renaissance against other less intense players.