Havoc 2018 Chrysler's Farm

This action played out historically, with a minor British victory. 

US left flank late in the game pushing over the ravines toward the British at the fence line.

US center stuck in the mud in a kill zone. 

Rich Wallace selects his target

Leo Walsh ponders his next move.

Should I charge? 

Yeo's Sloop adds to the British efforts to hold their right.

Havoc 2018 Chickamagua

I ran the Battle of Chrysler's Farm 1813 using Carnage and Glory II computer aided rules at Havoc, the Battle Group Boston Gaming Conference.  It played out to a historical result, with exhausted lower quality US troops failing morale in the face of higher quality well rested British regulars.  I also played in a fun ACW battle of Chickamagua game covering a portion of the battle.  Great fun.  First the ACW game where I commanded the US right flank on a hill in woods. 

The battlefield from behind the Union right where I commanded.

Our commander on the Union left rolled incredibly well, beating off two brigades and excelling with his saving rolls.



I'm rolling pretty well myself.

The rebs went up and down the hill on my flank throughout the game.

Cold Wars 2018 Saturday

Saturday at Cold Wars.  Having finished with game mastering, I turned my attention to play.  In John Snead's game I commanded the Russian right flank in a rear guard action as we sought to stem the Franco-Saxon advance after Bautzen in 1813.  The game ended in a pyric French victory, but if we had gone another turn, we would have crushed our opponents as we had a cavalry counter attack set up with a very high likelihood of success. 

The French right flank looking toward the Russian held village.

My jagers held this village in front of our lines on the Russian Right. the French had to decide to attack it or by-pass it.  They tried to do both. Eventually pushing the jagers out of the village.
 

We took a reverse slope position and pounded the advancing French with artillery.



The French advance continues



The Russian brain trust.

I advance on the extreme right flank to slow down the Saxon's by-passing the jagers in the village.

Cold Wars 2018 Thursday and Friday

Another fun expedition to Lancaster for Cold Wars.  I put on a meeting engagement between French-Bavarian troops and Austrians in 1809 using Carnage and Glory II computer aided rules and participated in three C&GII games as well as a WWII game.

 The WWII game involved a Japanese paratroop drop on a Dutch East Indies airfield.

As Japanese we had to capture 13 of the jungle blocks and huts.  It was a near run thing but we did it on the last turn.



 

 On Friday I played in an 1813 French versus Russian game.  The French were on the defense and the Russians struck our central village area and found themselves in a kill zone.  It was a fun game run by Sir Nigel himself. 

My French command is to the right of the central village

The French right flank saw swirling action in the woods with light infantry

The Russian surge.  A brigade charges the village and is pushed back as they face fire from three sides.

Our worthy adversaries.

That afternoon I ran my Franco-Bavarian versus Austrians in 1809 game.  As so often happens, I found little time to take pictures.  The one below is from the initial set up.  Victory points involved holding villages and inflicting casualties.  This game saw the weather take a staring role.  The Austrians grabbed the central villages and sat back to await the French attack.  The Bavarians waited until it began to rain heavily and then charged in column against fresh Austrians in line.  11000 Austrian muskets spoke, no one was listening, only 1 casualty because of the rain.  The Bavarians rooted the Austrians out.  The game was a minor victory to the French.

View of the table from the French end.  The action raged around the middle village area.