I had another go at TDFG this week, this time with a live opponent. The selected scenario was number 1 from the Grant and Asquith scenario book. For a FPW setting, a brigade sized Prussian force had to take a pass from the rearguard of a French force. My opponent took the French and opted for a deployment in front of the pass with his artillery on the ridge. As the Prussians I may have misinterpreted the scenario instruction, which had my troops entering in column along a track, presumably one unit at a time. This was unclear in the scenario instructions and led to the Prussians taking many casualties, at first from artillery and then from the chassepots. I made the mistake of not covering the track with a skirmish line (in the rules this absorbs enemy fire, protecting any troops behind) and immediately lost my limbered guns. It took a long time and a lot of casualties for the Prussians to get into formation and close to needlegun range. Again lessons were learned - cover troops with skirmishers; Prussian skirmishers should not voluntarily go prone as this crucially slows down any attack (they involuntarily go prone if taking four casualties in one turn, and must then use one of their two actions to stand up again). Eventually the Prussians had a number of units rallying and converging back on their base line but too late to beat the clock. Fingers crossed, here are a couple of pictures:
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Nice looking game 8)
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The little red and green squares of MDF are used to mark the first and second actions, so the unit with the green square can still perform another action, then flips the square over to the red side showing that all actions have been completed.
The end of the game, with Prussians trying to rally and converge, with the French still on the plain.
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:-bd =D> :-bd
Quote from: Leman on 03 March 2018, 06:10:46 PM
The little red and green squares of MDF are used to mark the first and second actions, so the unit with the green square can still perform another action, then flips the square over to the red side showing that all actions have been completed.
A very elegant way of keeping track :)
Looks really good !
Cheers - Phil
Looking good
Take care
Andy