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Tabletop AARs / Re: I Corps versus I Corps: Th...
Last post by MengJiao - March 22, 2024, 12:05:35 PM
Quote from: W8taminute on March 16, 2024, 03:02:44 PMThis outta be interesting!

Possibly.  Here's the situation at 2:20 in the afternoon.
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Tabletop AARs / Re: I Corps versus I Corps: Th...
Last post by W8taminute - March 16, 2024, 03:02:44 PM
This outta be interesting!
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Tabletop AARs / I Corps versus I Corps: This t...
Last post by MengJiao - March 16, 2024, 07:59:08 AM
So at Waterloo, elements of the French I corps and elements of the Prussian I corps did collide on the NE side of the battle.

What if Both Corps had turned up in full strength at 1pm?
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Tabletop AARs / Re: Papelotte, June 18 1815, 1...
Last post by MengJiao - March 09, 2024, 06:54:00 AM
Quote from: MengJiao on March 08, 2024, 10:57:17 AM5pm, the Prussian I Corps begins to deploy to push south to where the IV Corps is engaging the Guard.

  I'm usually pretty bad at running attacks against myself, but in this scenario, I blew Saxe-Weimar's defense (it was his fault really since he rolled the very worst set of rolls ever seen except for being stunned rather than killed)
And then managed a reasonably systematic attack with the very good troops of the Prussian I Corps and barely got a technical win for the Prussians.
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Tabletop AARs / Re: Papelotte, June 18 1815, 1...
Last post by MengJiao - March 08, 2024, 10:57:17 AM
Quote from: MengJiao on March 07, 2024, 06:39:15 PMBy 4pm, the French have completely routed the Prince of Saxe-Weimar and all his associates.  The English Cavalry
have withdrawn since things are going wrong to the west.  Now the French just need to seriously delay the Prussian I Corps which will be approaching from the NNW (ie the Chemin de Ohain and not east of the Ruisseau de Smohain).

  5pm, the Prussian I Corps begins to deploy to push south to where the IV Corps is engaging the Guard.
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Tabletop AARs / Re: Papelotte, June 18 1815, 1...
Last post by MengJiao - March 07, 2024, 06:39:15 PM
Quote from: MengJiao on March 07, 2024, 12:40:04 PM
Quote from: MengJiao on March 07, 2024, 12:11:27 PMAt 1pm Bluecher is just off the map to the east wondering where IV Corps is and getting some reports from his scouts. 
Meanwhile, a French Division is about to attack Saxe-Weimar and his Brigade.  Both sides have their cavalry lurking behind them.

  By 1:20 a lot has happened.  Saxe-Weimar attacks and is stunned and out for six turns.  Heinemann, Rebeque and Perponcher take over the leaderless brigade while disorder and confusion fill the smoky hedges around the Chateau de Frischermont.  The French rally and resume their own attacks.

  By 4pm, the French have completely routed the Prince of Saxe-Weimar and all his associates.  The English Cavalry
have withdrawn since things are going wrong to the west.  Now the French just need to seriously delay the Prussian I Corps which will be approaching from the NNW (ie the Chemin de Ohain and not east of the Ruisseau de Smohain).
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Tabletop AARs / Re: Papelotte, June 18 1815, 1...
Last post by MengJiao - March 07, 2024, 12:40:04 PM
Quote from: MengJiao on March 07, 2024, 12:11:27 PMAt 1pm Bluecher is just off the map to the east wondering where IV Corps is and getting some reports from his scouts. 
Meanwhile, a French Division is about to attack Saxe-Weimar and his Brigade.  Both sides have their cavalry lurking behind them.

  By 1:20 a lot has happened.  Saxe-Weimar attacks and is stunned and out for six turns.  Heinemann, Rebeque and Perponcher take over the leaderless brigade while disorder and confusion fill the smoky hedges around the Chateau de Frischermont.  The French rally and resume their own attacks.
#8
Tabletop AARs / Papelotte, June 18 1815, 1pm
Last post by MengJiao - March 07, 2024, 12:11:27 PM
So, if you indulge in Napoleonic games, sooner or later you have to refight at least some part of the whole waterloo thing.  I've done Ligny and Quatre Bras recently in another game system, but After Dresden, the next La Bataille is Waterloo, which just came out.  Here is a tiny scenario covering the area where the Prussian I Corps arrived (IV Corps hit the Guard at Plancenoit later).  At 1pm Bluecher is just off the map to the east wondering where IV Corps is and getting some reports from his scouts. 
Meanwhile, a French Division is about to attack Saxe-Weimar and his Brigade.  Both sides have their cavalry lurking behind them.
#9
Tabletop AARs / Re: Bohemian Nightmare
Last post by MengJiao - March 06, 2024, 03:22:05 PM
Quote from: MengJiao on March 03, 2024, 08:43:54 AM
Quote from: MengJiao on March 01, 2024, 08:43:06 AMAlso, the Prussians are using howitzer counters from the Age of Reason (10 pounders) using 11 pounder artillery cassons! The Reasonable Prussian Blue is nice anyway:


By 7 am the Prussian Howitzers have done some serious damage.  I've had Prussian Howitzers in probably about
20 games and they have never done much.  Apparently, three batteries of them firing from a hilltop can even blow up
artillery caissons across a river at 700 meters.  Things aren't looking good for the Austrian Light Division, but the French are arriving and marching past Kaisar Franz and the King of Saxony.  Kleist and the Prussian Monarch are back with the artillery reserve about 500 meters behind the Howitzers, a hill and a forest or two.

  A little later, it looks like the Prussians have won in a couple of ways I wasn't expecting.  I did kind of think they would do okay, but their Cavalry mopped up up north against a decoy force that collapsed (my fault obviously)
and their Howitzers did some unexpectly serious damage while the river crossing thing worked as well.
Anyway, here's a last look at this hypothetical battle
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Tabletop AARs / Re: Bohemian Nightmare
Last post by MengJiao - March 03, 2024, 08:43:54 AM
Quote from: MengJiao on March 01, 2024, 08:43:06 AMAlso, the Prussians are using howitzer counters from the Age of Reason (10 pounders) using 11 pounder artillery cassons! The Reasonable Prussian Blue is nice anyway:


By 7 am the Prussian Howitzers have done some serious damage.  I've had Prussian Howitzers in probably about
20 games and they have never done much.  Apparently, three batteries of them firing from a hilltop can even blow up
artillery caissons across a river at 700 meters.  Things aren't looking good for the Austrian Light Division, but the French are arriving and marching past Kaisar Franz and the King of Saxony.  Kleist and the Prussian Monarch are back with the artillery reserve about 500 meters behind the Howitzers, a hill and a forest or two.