Sunday 2nd February 2014

3 Games in our Club Peninsular Campaign.
I am Portuguese and Adam helps - today he was a Spanish Commander.

Southern Table - Spanish v French
Southern table saw the Spanish pushed back by a large French force, however they were able to send reinforcements to the middle table.

Heres a few pics of the battle -

Northern Table - British v French
Northern table saw the British force a hard fought river crossing.
Unusually, the artillry lead over the bridge! But units were quick to follow in support.
Some of the British units got lost and ended up on the middle table due to poor map reading, spent a turn in confusion and marched back.

Heres a few pics from this table -

Middle Table - Portuguese/Spanish v French
Tasked with trying to cross the river Adam and myself came up with a plan - assuming we found a ford!

Unfortunately, no fords were found to begin with. The hunt continued whilst the allied artillery attacked the redoubts. the Spanish started a firefight across the stream. Some sneaky French cavalry arrived from the Southern table onto the Spanish flank. They managed to dispatcha Portuguese cavalry unit but eventually musket fire got rid of them! Eventually!

Also on that flank Spanish reinforcements arrived from the Southern table, however due to some unlucky command dice they never moved.

Fords were found and and troops poured across, but it was too late. Earlier the Portuguese had crossed the bridge but been caught in march column and were pushed back.

In hindsight - I should have used 3 units in column to check for fords giving me 3 rolls instead of the 1 I got because my skirmishers covered a large area and we rolled once per unit not distance covered.

The other change - I should have charged across the bridge early on before the enemy cavalry could plug the gap, however i thought the units in the redoubt could fire on me, but club rules have units firing straight ahead only so the units in the redoubt couldn't shot as I crossed.

Here are some pics -