French win
Waterloo
After some delay we have at last completed the Nearly
Waterloo wargame, and it has been posted on the Nearly Napoleonic Battles blog
It made an interesting change to fight a one off wargame,
rather than one of our usual 1813 campaign battles.
I gave the French an advantage of 16 infantry brigades
against the British 12 brigades. This
may have proved too big an advantage.
We followed the outline of the historical battle. It opened with a French corps attacking
Hougoumont, La Haye Sainte and Papelotte.
All three were forward of the British battle line, and difficult to
support. The overwhelming French
numbers allowed them to swamp the garrisons.
Hougoumont fell quite quickly, but surprisingly La Haye
Sainte held out. This despite the
French having more artillery in support than at Hougoumont. The garrison held because they rolled very
good dice for morale as their casualties increased.
The French won, and that result was never really in doubt
We enjoyed the game and will certainly continue with this
occasional series of one off games based on historical battles.
You can read the battle report here
I have also
done a video slide show of this game so that there will be easy access to
subsequent games in the series, rather than have to find them on the blog. You will find the slide show here
I have read the battle report and watched the video, and I was impressed by both.
ReplyDeleteI am currently working on a set of Portable Napoleonic Wargame rules for division vs. division battles, and your example shows that it is possible to fight large-scale battles on a relatively small tabletop and still get the feel right.
All the best,
Bob
Hi Bob
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments.
I was pleased with the game. It was not intended to be anything other than a fun game, but in fact it did have a feel of Waterloo about it.
Also having great fun with the video of the game. Not sure how long that project will last, because it is taking me away from my campaign!
I have been following your Portable Napoleonic Wargame and it seems to be coming along very well.
best regards
Paul
Nice read and great vid, interesting!
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