Napoleonics 2012 Memorial Day NashCon Scenario

Valle de la Muerte
Canto de Furlong separates the Lago de Langford plains to the southwest from the Valle de la Muerte to the north. French forces are encamped around Amargo Fuente, the only water source for miles, to observe the pass between Canto de Furlong and La Ballena Negro. The Spanish provincial forces in La Ballena Negro must clear the pass and unite with the British in Canto de Furlong at all costs. The French force, with its advantage of a central position, plans to prevent the unification of the enemy and deny them the victory. Mark Johnson presents this Peninsular War battle using 25mm figures and “Bonaparte” rules. There will be openings for up to 6 players.

As Henry and I were unable to attend NashCon this weekend - we took Mark Johnson's scenario and amended it to use just two Brigades of French chosen by a random die roll  (1 infantry brigade 4 battalions 2 battalion guns and 1 cavalry brigade with 3 horse guns) and two Brigades of Russians chosen by a random die roll (Henry got a Grenadier Brigade with a attached regiment of Hussars and a Brigade of Russian infantry with an attached battery) all infantry was rated as steady with random unit counters scattered about the table. The obejective for both sides was to destroy the enemy but control the village de la Muertevich water supply as that main objective was important for victory conditions.

Henry will be cross posting - His Elite Brigade fought valiantly but was overwhelmed by sheer numbers of French and some lucky die rolls by the french commanders.  The French were nearly undone by overeaching and engaging the1st Russian Grenadier Brigade while using one lone regiment of German Light dragoons to dismount and hold the village. Henry's Other Russian Line Brigade fought hard and eventually pushed the German Light Dragoons out of the village. The Russians won a phyrric victory as they suffered watching one Brigade suffer over 50 percent casualties but its destruction lead to the Russian Brigade commander to win the goal of resupplying the division with water as the Russians held the town at the end of the game.
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May 28th 2012 - Continuation of the village de la Muertevich water supply battle. Stephen came over to see if he could hold the village (at first we wondered if he had too few reinforcements but he used the light cavalry brigade with supporting horse artillery quite judicially as he kept the French bottled up with Russian counter squares!

Initial Russian victory for the first day will be tested as a second day of battle commences to see if the Russian Brigade can hold on too its gains from the day before. The French Brigades with one arriving brigade of reinforcements for both the russians and the french will be attempting to rip the the village de la Muertevich water supply from Russian hands-

Battle results from today - Russians continued to hold the village de la Muertevich water supply, as the remnants of the defeated Russian Grenadier  Brigade returned to the battlefield along with a reconstituted brigade of 2 cav regiments with horse artillery - this was just enough to hold off the renewed French attack as the french polish brigade was forced into square and one disordered square finally broke as the Hussar cavalry assaulting it retired after a simultaneous breaktest. Fresh French reinforcesments of 5 Battalions made no headway in attempting to break into the village from the south eastern corner. French forces will have seek fresh water further down stream. The French Cavalry Polish Horse artillery battery was crushed after 3 rounds of melee as the artillery vainly struggled to hold on to the battery.

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