Initial setup:
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(http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg160/tschuma1498/JonaksBrigade_zpsec21a155.jpg)
(http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg160/tschuma1498/PrussianAdvanceGuard-1_zps71edecbc.jpg)
(http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg160/tschuma1498/PrussianAdvanceGuard-2_zpseca0aa59.jpg)
I did not use the fields as I had posted before, they just did not look right. I think I will ultimately paint fields on the terrain but haven't made up my mind. It looked great as it was. Using 6mm buildings gave the feel of a village/town instead of using 10mm buildings and only have 1 or 2 buildings out there. In fact one of the group members stated he may sell his buildings and go to this scale!
The game started with the Austrians winning the initiative. Hertwek's brigade advanced up the slope to the Prussian positions.
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The Prussians are pushed back on the first turn, but this was not to be repeated for several turns
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Jonak's Brigade advanced further to support Hertwk's Brigade, much like history. The issue that would plague a regiment from Jonak's brigade is they rolled too low to at the very least change formation and it took them 3 turns to change out of Road Column.
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Once the Prussian Advance Guard was able to consolidate, we all found out how devastating the Needle Gun fire into a massed target could be. This forced Hertwek's brigade to retire and reform.
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The back and forth with the Prussian Advance Guard and now 3 Austrian brigades final started racking out casualties on both sides, but the weight of the Austrians finally won out.
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1 battalion of the Prussian Advance Guard occupied Wysokow, which forced the Austrian to spend time clearing.
(http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg160/tschuma1498/1230_zps136b09be.jpg)
Attacking in Road column is not usually a good thing. The rolls for both the Austrians were low all day. I don't think I have ever seen so many 1's and 3's on die rolls. Not a good thing in Fire and Fury.
The Austrian Cavalry, Artillery, and remaining Infantry Brigade form up to stop the Prussian Reinforcement.
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The Austrians finally start clearing the Brankawald but more Prussians are advancing.
[img]http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg160/tschuma1498/1300_zps0a5d41da.jpg)
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This is where we stopped due to time.
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It would have been a bloody battle at this point with the Austrian Batteries lined up and infantry coming up from through the woods. But I feel that the Prussian Needle gun fire would have won the day. The game played out almost as per the real battle. The Prussian Advance guard may have held out a little longer, but we were learning the charts as they are different then ACW Fire and Fury. Overall a good game, just a few questions I need to ask Bill Gray. Now I need to start on the next set of boards for Skalitz. I think we will play an alternate scenario where Ramming's Corp arrives to support 8th Corp.
Great report, nicely done! :D
Nice looking game!
8)
Lovely looking game 8).
8) :-bd
Cheers - Phil.
Really nice! great table
Really looks the business, and I agree with you on 10mm figures with 6mm buildings:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g440/dourpuritan/Figurephotos2011/FPWphotos10mm/IMG_0274.jpg)
Excellent work, looks great. 6mm buildings and 10mm figures is the way to go. How did you find Age of Valor? And I cannot tell you how painful I find that missing vowel! :D ;)
Mollinary
I didnt realise those were 6mm buildings...must work
Quote from: mollinary on 28 August 2013, 06:01:03 PM
Excellent work, looks great. 6mm buildings and 10mm figures is the way to go. How did you find Age of Valor? And I cannot tell you how painful I find that missing vowel! :D ;)
Mollinary
The rules worked great, we just had some issues with the Needle Gun factors being so high compared to Artillery fire. We did not use Reserve movement, but will the next game. I have posted a few questions on Bill's yahoo group, but no response yet. We play Fire and Fury ACW both Brigade and Regimental, so the group has the base rules down. Already working on Skalitz and will be picking up the base foam boards this weekend. it never ends!
Quote from: Fenton on 28 August 2013, 06:03:52 PM
I didnt realise those were 6mm buildings...must work
The larger buildings look fine but the small houses look distinctly under-scale.
Other than that, a good-looking game with bags of action. 8)
From the aerial shots they all look fine
At first I thought the smaller buildings would be too small too, but they add to the "village" feel of the board.
As luck will have it we also re-fought Nachod 1866 but using our rules, based partly on Fire and Fury.
Here is the report - https://www.baccus6mm.com/forum/index.php?topic=1669.0 (https://www.baccus6mm.com/forum/index.php?topic=1669.0)
A very good looking game, but surprisingly Austrians in White coats even though Baccus do an 1866 Austrian army in greatcoats.
That's a great looking battle - very nicely done 8)
Thanks guys it is nice of you to say so but you are being a little too kind. I really wish I had terrain like tschuma's :(
I wasn't going to post up anything as this was just a quick game done with whatever was to hand. Some friends of mine turned up unexpectedly and so I just threw the game together with whatever I had. Dour Puritan: This is why we used 1859 period Austrians. I couldn't find my 1866 greatcoated Austrians (I subsequently remembered I have loaned them out) and it looked like we would have to use Napoleonic Austrians as 'stand in's'. But then I remembered the 1859 guys and so we used them. It was a similar story with the terrain. It was largely improvised and we did without roads as I couldn't find anything suitable.
But the guys who played, one of which took the photos, said I should and that people might like to see a game with our version of the Fire & Fury idea. We have up scaled to make the large battles of the period more doable. But the decider was tschuma's post, I think we were literally playing at the same time! Or at least judging by the time he posted his report we might of been :)
I recently lost al my eastern theatre ACW commanders. Naturally they turned up in an unlabelled bag inside an unlabelled box; which takes us all back to the thread on what is your workspace like?