The Napoleonic Miniatures Museum

BELOW: Royal Horse Guards

Hi Guys

A very quick post.

My mate Danl has started a great new Online Resource for all the Napoleonic buffs out there:

The Napoleonic Miniatures Museum.

You'll find photos of various painted miniatures in various scales from a variety of manufactures.

Such as these 28mm Perry Household Cavalry that Danl (Gunner Dunbar) recently painted for me.

I highly recommend you pop over and check out some fantastic painting. 

 ABOVE AND BELOW: LIFE GUARDS

Quatre Bras Refight with FoG:N

ABOVE: The Battlefield at the commencement of the game.

This weekend myself and two friends decided to play a refight of Quatre Bras. With a FoG:N tournament approaching we decided that these rules would be an excellent set to use to fight the battle.

Arnaud (as usual) commanded the French Corps and would be Marshal Ney. Tyler would play the part of William, Prince of Orange and Wellington (on his arrived on the Battlefield).

The Orders of Battles I obtained from HERE.

To make the battle less predictable and more interesting I set up all of Ney's forces on the field with the exception of Jerome's Division arriving on the 2nd turn. The French heavy cavalry would arrive only on a roll of 4,5 or 6 on turn 3, on a roll of 3,4,5 or 6 on turn 4, and 2,3,4,5 or 6 any turn there after.

The Allies would start with only Perponcher two divisions on the field with all the other divisions of I Corps arriving over the next turns one division at a time

Viscount Hill's Corp, (II Corp) would arrive the next turn after the last of I Corps divisions with each division arriving as follows after rolling anything other than a 1 or a 2:

On a roll of 1 or 2 The Corps Cavalry

On a roll of 3 or 4: Sir Thomas Picton's Division

On a roll of 5 or 6: The Brunswick Infantry.

Simply put when the last of the 1st Corps arrived we roll a D6. As long as a 1 or 2 wasn't rolled the Corps commander would arrive with Wellington (Exceptional 'Charismatic') who would replace the Prince of Orange (Competent 'Charismatic').

Now another D6 was rolled. If a 1 or 2 was rolled then the following divisions from 2nd Corps would not arrived, assumed to be caught up in the traffic jam on the road leading to Quatre Bras. If a 3,4,5 or a 6 was rolled then another D6 was rolled to see WHICH division arrived.

Simple!

 ABOVE: The initial Allied deployment.
BELOW: The buildings of Quatre Bras.

 The battle opened with the two French infantry divisions advancing cautiously towards the Dutch Belgian lines. The French cavalry (a small brigade of lancers and a large brigade of Chasseurs) and their artillery support made a wide sweeping flanking move on the allies left flank.

Fortunately for the Allies just at that time the British Guards brigade arrived and quickly moved off the road to cover the allies' left flank.

This flanking movement from the French soon fizzled out to nothing. The French effort now switched to the Dutch Belgian brigades in the center to the west of the Charleroi - Brussels road.

BELOW: The French Lancers and Chasseurs a Cheval that attempted to envelope the Allies' left flank.

 BELOW: The French 5th Division

 BELOW: The French 9th Division commanded by Foy.

 As Prince Jerome's Division moved towards the French right flank in support of the now stalled cavalry movement another British division (LtGen Alten's 3rd Div) arrived consisting of the 5th Brigade of English battalions (the 33rd, 30th, 69th and 73rd Foot) and the Hanoverian Brigade consisting mainly of conscripts. The 5th Brigade moved off to support the English Guards on the allies left whilst the Hanoverians moved to support the Netherlanders and their German kin in the Nassau Brigades in reserve.

 ABOVE: The French 9th Division of Foy, Bachelu's 5th Division and in the distance the French 2nd cavalry Division of Comte Pire.
BELOW: French 2nd cavalry Division of Comte Pire. sweeping towards the allies left flank.

BELOW: The British Guards foil the French Cavalry sweep.

 ABOVE: Sporadic artillery fire in the center.
BELOW: The British Guards. Two Brigades block the French Cavalry.

 BELOW: The Hanoverian Brigade moves down the road. The British 5th Brigade moves up on the left of The Guards.

 ABOVE and BELOW: Action on the Allies' left flank.

 Impatient for a breakthrough and not willing to await the arrival of the Heavy Cavalry division that was a due to arrive Ney hurled the Guard Light Cavalry at the Netherlands Brigades and some Dutch artillery.

The Dutch Militia Brigade were in tactical formation and scrambled to form squares and the Dutch gunners ran to the British Guards for cover. 2000 Guard Chasseurs a Cheval, Mamalukes and Lancers descended upon the Dutch infantry. Their disordered squares were torn apart by the Guards just as the French heavies under General Kellerman arrived to support the developing attack in the centre. 

BELOW: The French Guard Light Cavalry move towards the center.

ABOVE: Foy's Division spars with the Belgian infantry
BELOW: The French Guard Light Cavalry commence their charge.

 After slaughtering the Dutch militia the Guard Lancers charged on again and crashed into the large Nassau Brigade (the 2nd Nassau Infantry Regiment) that was in reserve. Yet again the Prince of Orange's men could only form disordered squares and they too were swept away.

As the the French Guard cavalry was slaughtering the Dutch militia a Nassau Brigade (the 28th Orange-Nassau Regiment) was busy driving off Husson's 1st Brigade from Bachelu's 5th Division who had been caught withdrawing after a failed assault on the British artillery.

 The Allied cavalry division arrived as the French Guard cavalry had started their advance and moved off to the east in an effort to envelope the French cavalry that had now stalled in front of the British Guards.

BELOW: The all conquering Guard Lancers destroy all in their path.

 The situation was now as follows:

The French cavalry envelopment of the Allies left flank had stalled thanks to the British Guards and was now itself in danger of being enveloped by Dutch Belgian and Brunswick Cavalry.

The French Guard Light Cavalry Division had smashed both a Dutch and a Nassau brigade and was pouring into the centre whilst a Nassau Brigade had counter-attacked on the East side of the Charleroi - Brussels road and driven off a brigade of French infantry.

On the allies right flank very little had happened at all apart from the batteries exchanging some round shot.

Wellington now arrived on the battlefield to take over from The Prince of Orange. The large Hanovarian brigade was place in the center.

The Nassau brigade that had driven off the French 1st Brigade was now itself taken in the flank by counter-attacking French infantry and destroyed.

 The French Guard Chasseurs a Cheval now wheeled right and overran a battery whilst the Guard Lancers wheeled left and took the Belgian brigade in the flank and destroyed them on the edged of Bossu Wood. Only the 27th Jagers remained of the 2nd Netherlands Division!
BELOW: The Belgian Infantry Brigade is taken in flank by the Guard Lancers.

 Now the French Heavies came into action. The Cuirassiers and Dragoons charged through the gaping hole made by the Guard Light Cavalry and came charging onto the Hanovarian militia in the center.

An all to familiar pattern emerged. The Hanoverian militia failed to form solid squares and were run down by the French heavy cavalry. The British had deployed the 5th Brigade behind the Hanovarians but they suffered the same fate as the Dragoons followed through onto them. As had happened in the real Battle of Quatre Bras the British 5th Brigade had been cut to shreds by French Heavies,...

 ABOVE and BELOW: The Hanoverians meet their fate.

All the while the remaining divisions of the allies 2nd Corps had failed to arrive.

At this point Wellington conceded defeat and ordered the remains of 1st Corps to retreat towards Brussels.

It was a excellent game. The failed arrival of the Allies 2nd Corps sealed the fate or Orange\Wellington though if any of the Germans or Dutch had formed solid squares they might have held on long enough for the 2nd Corps to arrive and save the day.

It just wasn't meant to be.

Oh well,....

 ABOVE and BELOW: The destruction of the British 5th Brigade.

As usual, feel free to leave comments.

Cheers

UPDATE:
Eric asked a question that deserves a fuller explanation:
"Why do you refer to the units as Brigades when FoG:N says the units represent 'Regiments'"?

Hi Eric
I refer to the units as Brigades because that is what they are. The authors of FoG:N (for reasons I'll never understand) say the units represent Regiments. The truth is rarely did entire Regiments take to the field. Normally it was Battalions FROM regiments that would come together to form Brigades (a collection of Battalions). Let's look at a FoG:N unit in this battle. The Allied (Brit) 5th Brigade for example. 
To make a small unit in FoG:N (1200 to 2000 men) then we have 1 battalion from each of the 30th, 33rd, 69th and 73rd Foot each providing an average of about 500 men. NOT a Regiment at all. Actually 4 battalions from 4 different regiments. Now look at the French 1st Brigade from the 5th Division. 4 battalions from the 2nd Light Inf Regt and 2 battalions from the 61st Line for a total of just over 3000 men (a LARGE unit). Again, 2 different Regiments. To try and create two 'Regiments' would result in a SMALL 2nd Light Infantry but not enough (only 800 men) to make a SMALL 61st Line Regiment. So I settled on a LARGE Light Infantry unit with a SKIRMISH element due to the preponderance of Light Infantry from the 2nd Light Infantry.  
By contrast the 2nd Brigade of the  2nd Netherlands Brigade consists of 1 LARGE unit made up of 3 battalions from the 2nd Nassau Line regiment with a total of 2600 men! 
Oh and all the miniatures are either AB Miniatures and a handful of Fantassin / warmodeller figs.
I'd use FoG:N if you are trying to fight the whole battle or Lasalle if you want to fight just a part, like the fighting around Bossu Wood.

Waterloo Highlanders: The 42nd Regiment of Foot

Hi Guys
A break from ACW stuff today and a look at something 'Napoleonic'.

Here is the freshly based 42nd Regiment of Foot, (The Black Watch) as painted by my very talented mate 'Gunner Dunbar'. They are almost all VICTRIX 28mm Plastics except for the Rude Highlander flashing his backside at those pesky French. He is a metal miniature from Westfalia Miniatures.

 

You can see the 'Hard Campaigning' Highlanders that Gunner Dunbar painted for me earlier HERE

I've included some regimental history notes as I found on Wikipedia.

Early History

After the Jacobite rising of 1715 the British government did not have the resources or manpower to keep a standing army in the Scottish Highlands. As a result, they were forced to keep order by recruiting men from local Highland clans that had been loyal to the Whigs. This proved to be unsuccessful in deterring crime, especially cattle rustling. Therefore Independent Highland Companies (of what would be known as the "Black Watch") were raised as a militia in 1725 by General George Wade to keep "watch" for crime. He was commissioned to build a network of roads to help in the task. The six Independent Highland Companies were recruited from local clans, with one company coming from Clan Munro, one from Clan Fraser, one from Clan Grant and three from Clan Campbell. These companies were commonly known as Am Freiceadan Dubh, or the Black Watch, this name may well have been due to the way they dressed. Four more companies were added in 1739 to make a total of ten Independent Highland Companies.

The ten Independent Highland Companies of "Black Watch" were officially formed into the "43rd Highland Regiment of Foot", a regiment of the line in 1739. It was first mustered in 1740, at Aberfeldy, Scotland. The Colonel was John Lindsay, 20th Earl of Crawford and the Lieutenant-Colonel was Sir Robert Munro, 6th Baronet. Among the Captains were his next brother, George Munro, 1st of Culcairn (also a Captain of an Independent Company raised in 1745) and their cousin John Munro, 4th of Newmore who was promoted lieutenant-Colonel in 1745 (in place of Sir Robert who went on to command the 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot). The other Captains of the 43rd were George Grant, Colin Campbell of Monzie, James Colquhoun of Luss, John Campbell of Carrick, Collin Campbell of Balliemore and Dougal Campbell of Craignish

 ABOVE: One of Westfalia's 'RUDE HIGHLANDER'.

 ABOVE and BELOW: My lads here are depicted as the would have appeared at Quatre Bras and Waterloo.

100 Days

The now single battalion 42nd fought at the chaotic Battle of Quatre Bras on 16 June 1815 and was one of four battalions mentioned in despatches by Wellington. Two days later at the Battle of Waterloo, the 42nd and also the 2nd/73rd Highlanders, were both in some of the most intense fighting in the battle and lost 289 men

I've based the miniatures on 50mm wide by 40mm deep bases for use with LASALLE or FOG-N.
Flags are from VICTRIX and come with the miniatures when purchased.
As usual comments are welcomed

The Battle of Lambsnag on Bunn. A FoG-N AAR

NORTH

WESTEAST

SOUTH

ABOVE: Just as the sun rises and the morning fog lifts, the French army converges on the town of Lambsnag on the river Bunn.
Hi All
Stan and I recently invited our good mate Arnaud up from the 'Big Smoke' of Melbourne to join us for a game of Field Of Glory - Napoleonic. I quickly designed a scenario based 'loosely' on the battle of Albuera. I don't have many Spanish and Portuguese miniatures, so decided on a 'German' setting. The combatants would consist on one side, (commanded by Arnaud) French with some Polish troops and the other side consisting of a mix of  Bavarians and Wurtembergers and British.
The idea is as follows:
It's 1814, and even though the Bavarians and Wurttembergers have defected to the Allies, Napoleon has managed to withdraw from the Battle of Leipzig in good shape. The Allies have brought across from the Low Countries a British Corp to aid their new found allies, (the Bavarians and Wurttembergers). A mixed force of these 'Germans' are now defending the strategically important town of Lambsnag on Bunn. Marshal Victor has been directed by the Emperor to capture the town and the vital bridges and road intersections. Sir General Thomas Graham is commanding the the British Army (of Corps size) and he is hurrying to the aid of the newly raised Bavarian and Wurttembeg units.
The Emperor had intelligence that the town is defended by the recently defecting Bavarians, and suspected that even though they had fought hard against him at Hanau that here (without any Austrians to intimidate them) they might surrender the town.
The battlefield was dominated by the river Bunn running across it. On the eastern side of the river was the town of Lambsnag. A long line of hills ran the length of the eastern side of the Bunn. Further east and behind the hill line lay a small stream; the Dinneroll which ran between the hill line and the Kornchip Heights. 
Some Scenario Notes:
Here is the Map:
A: French deployment are for French Infantry Divisions.
B: French deployment are for French Cavalry Divisions.
C: Entry point for British Divisions.

The French divisions in Deployment area 'A' setup just outside Musket range, (that's 6 BW in FoG-N terms).
The French player can deploy his troops in any way he sees fit within the deployment areas.
The Bavarians start with the Vanguard Division with one unit in Lambsburg and one unit to the south in any formation he wants. 
The Bavarian Guard Division must be deployed to the north of the towm. 
The German Cavalry Division starts on the Kornchip Heights.
Terrain Notes:
The town of Lambsnag can hold either one LARGE unit or two SMALL units.
For game purposes all the hills are gentle slopes. The River Bunn will cause all troops types to halt as soon as they contact it, but they may then cross it at no penalty. 
The small Dinneroll stream is clear terrain for movement, but does offer some aid in defence.

The mechanism for the arrival of the British is as follows:
A roll of 5 or 6 on a D6 is required for each British division per turn. If the roll is unsuccessful then next turn TWO divisions arrive on a 5 or 6. If that roll fails then THREE divisions arrive on a roll of a 5 -6. I think you can see the pattern here.
If (in the unlikely event NO Brits have arrived by turn three) then they will ALL arrive on turn 4 in any Order of March the Allied Player wishes. Otherwise the Allies contine to roll for reinforcements every turn.

I will refer to the Allied units as Regiments and the French units as Brigades.
Now I've set the scenario in Germany in 1814 with French fighting Bavarians and British, but you could easily use Austrian in 1809 or whatever. Use your imagination, I did.

BELOW: As the morning fog lifts, the Bavarians are confronted with the French army just outside musket range.

The French ORBAT was as follows:
FRENCH and Polish

		Troop Type	Name				Size		Elan		Training
1st Corps
	CC2 (Skilled)		Victor
1st Division
	DC1 (Competent)		Girard				Small		Average		Drilled
		Light Infantry	French Light Infantry				Small		Average		Veteran
		Line Infantry (reformed)	French Line Infantry (Skirm)				Small		Average		Drilled
		Medium Foot Artillery	French 8 pndr Foot Artillery				Small		Average		Drilled
2nd Division
	DC2 (Skilled)		Gazan
		Light Infantry	French Light Infantry				Small		Average		Drilled
		Line Infantry (reformed)	French Line Infantry (Skirm)				Large		Average		Drilled
		Medium Foot Artillery	French 8 pndr Foot Artillery				Small		Average		Drilled
3rd Division
	DC1 (Competent)		Godinot
		Line Infantry (reformed)	French Line Infantry (Skirm)				Large		Average		Drilled
		Line Infantry (reformed)	French Line Infantry				Large		Average		Drilled
		Line Infantry (reformed)	1st Swiss Line Infantry				Small		Superior		Veteran
		Medium Foot Artillery	French 8 pndr Foot Artillery				Small		Average		Drilled
Polish Division
	DC1 (Competent)		Dombronski
		Line Infantry (reformed)	Duchy of Warsaw Inf (Med Arty)				Large		Average		Veteran
		Line Infantry (reformed)	Irish Legion Infantry				Small		Average		Veteran
Dragoon Division
	DC1 (Competent)		Latour-Mabourg
		Heavy Cavalry	French Dragoons				Small		Average		Veteran
		Heavy Cavalry	French Dragoons				Small		Average		Veteran
		Light Cavalry (Lancers)	Polish Lancers				Small		Average		Veteran
		Horse Artillery	Polish Horse Artillery				Small		Average		Veteran
Light Cavalry Division
	DC1 (Competent)		Briche
		Light Cavalry	French Chasseurs				Small		Average		Drilled
		Horse Artillery	Westphalia Horse Artillery				Small		Average		Drilled

The Allies ORBAT was as follows:

ALLIES  

		Troop Type	Name	Size	Elan	Training
	CC2 (Skilled)		Graham
2nd Division
	DC1 (Competent)		Stewart
		Line Infantry (reformed)	British Line (Skirm)	Small	Average	Drilled
		Line Infantry (reformed)	British Line	Small	Average	Drilled
		Line Infantry (reformed)	British Line (Skirm)	Large	Average	Veteran
4th Division
	DC1 (Competent)		Cole
		Line Infantry (reformed)	British Line (Skirm)	Small	Average	Veteran
		Line Infantry (reformed)	British Line	Large	Average	Drilled
		Medium Foot Artillery	British RA 9pndrs	Small	Average	Drilled
5th Division
	DC1 (Competent)		Hamilton
		Light Infantry	British Lights	Small	Average	Drilled
		Light Infantry		Small	Average	Drilled
		Line Infantry (reformed)	British Line (Skirm)	Large	Average	Drilled
		Light Cavalry	Light  Dragoons	Small	Average	Drilled
		Medium Foot Artillery	British RA 6pndrs	Small	Average	Drilled
Cavalry Division
	DC2 (Skilled)		Merchant
		Impetuous Shock Heavy Cavalry	British Heavy Dragoons	Small	Average	Veteran
		Horse Artillery	British Royal Horse Artillery	Small	Average	Drilled
	CC1 (Competent)		Beckers
Vanguard Division
	DC1 (Competent)		Pappenheim
		Light Infantry	1st Bavarian Light Inf	Large	Average	Drilled
		Line Infantry (reformed)	11th Bavarian Line Inf	Large	Poor	Drilled
Guard Division
	DC1 (Competent)		Holler
		Line Infantry (reformed)	Bavarian Guard Inf (Skirm)	Small	Average	Drilled
		Line Infantry (reformed)	Württ Guard Inf (Skirm)	Small	Average	Drilled
		Line  Infantry (reformed)	12th Bavarian Reserve Inf	Small	Poor	Conscript
German Cavalry Division
	DC1 (Competent)		Dietz
		Light Cavalry	Wurttemberg Chevaulegers	Small	Poor	Drilled
		Heavy Cavalry	Bavarian Dragoons	Small	Average	Conscript

THE GAME
Turn one. As can be seen from the photos above the allies start with the Bavarian 11th Line Infantry in the town of Lambsnag and the 1st Light infantry to the south of the town. The German Guard Division was deployed on the Hill line to the north of the town. The German cavalry was still asleep in their camp on the Kornchip Heights.
The French were converging on the town under the cover of an early morning fog. As the mist lifted the French were almost withing musketry range. The Masses of French and Polish cavalry were coming down from the north.
The battle opened with the Allies testing to see if any of the British would arrive on turn one.
Good news (a 6 is rolled), Stewart's 2nd Division was marching west on the Lambsnag - Hanau road and were already on the Kornchip Heights.

BELOW: The Bavarian Guard Grenadiers. Average Drilled Line infantry. Nothing special. They have an attachment of Wurttemberg Light Infantry Skirmishers. Newly raised, they won't get the 'Guard' bonus.

BELOW: Wurttemberg Guard Light Infantry. Again, newly raised, we've classed them as Average Drilled LINE infantry with a Skirmisher attachment.

BELOW: Bavarian Reserves. 'Poor Conscripts' LINE infantry.

BELOW: The British 2nd Division arrive just as the German Cavalry division is tumbling out of bed and onto their horses.
The French for their part didn't waste any time and launched an immediate assault on Lambsnag with a Brigade from the 3rd Division.

Try as they might the French could not budge the Bavarians from the town. Victor decided to focus on clearing the southern flank and drove off the large Bavarian Light infantry Regiment away with a massive weight of fire.

ABOVE and BELOW: A fire fight erupts!

Whilst the fire fight continued around Lambsnag, the masses of French and Polish cavalry moved to envelope the north of the town. The German cavalry moved off to confront them.

BELOW: The French and Polish cavalry heading north before sweeping towards the Allies northern flank.

BELOW: The Bavarian Light Infantry withdraw (wavering) from the flank of the town.

Turn two, and the Allies rolled to see if more of the British will arrive. Another 6!
Now the British 4th Division under Cole arrives. As they arrive the British 2nd division, (two regiments of Highlanders and a regiment of English Line infantry) move of Kornchip Heights to support the Bavarians in the town. Just in time also, as they are able to provide some 'rear Support' for the town's defenders, and provide some refuge for the retreating Bavarian light infantry.
BELOW: The British 2nd Div moves down off Kornchip Heights as Cole's 4th Division arrives.

BELOW: The Bavarian 11th Infantry Regiment defends Lambsnag as French infantry swarm across the Bunn River to the south of the town.

Turn three. No British arrive this turn (a 3 is rolled).
Again and again the French launch attacks on Lambsnag without any success. As two French Brigades attack from the western side one brigade manages to attack from the northern side.
This only invites the Bavarian Guard Grenadiers to enter the fray however, and the charge down the hill and into the flank of the French brigade. After a short fight the French brigade breaks and routs back across the Bunn.
The French have more success on the south of the town however and those units from the 1st and 2nd Divisions that have crossed the Bunn engage the British 2nd Division units in a fire fight.
The result of which will see the small Highlander Regiment driven back 'Wavering' and the English Regiment is disordered.
The French are in a firm position on the high ground to the south of Lambsnag now. Now Victor looks north.

BELOW: Hot lead and round shot crash into the town, disordering the Bavarians within.
At the top of the picture you can see the large French brigade crossing the Bunn . They then asaulted the town from the north.

BELOW: Polish Lancers and French Dragoons eye the German cavalry across the Bunn river.

BELOW: The Bavarian Guard Grenadiers moments before they chrged down the hill into the exposed flank of the French attacking Lambsnag from the north.

Turn Four. Again, no British arrived this turn (a 1 rolled).
Victor was now getting frustrated with the failed attacks on Lambsnag. He sends an ADC of to order the French and Polish cavalry to attack the German horsemen across the Bunn. At the same time he ordered the Polish, Irish and Swiss Infantry to do what the French seemed incapable of, and that is to drive off some Bavarian and Wurttemberg infantry.
"Those fellows on the hills will do. They don't have any stout stone walls to hide behind"!
With that the Swiss crashed into the Bavarian Guard Grenadiers now downhill after driving off a large French brigade. At the same time the Polish infantry attacked uphill into the Bavarian Reserve infantry and the Irish also charged uphill into the Wurttemburg Guard Light infantry.
The Reservists were already 'wavering' from the fire from the Poles, and they were soon destroyed.
The Swiss and Irish were also victorious, breaking their opposite numbers.
The success didn't end there. The French and Polish cavalry smashed the German cavalry. Not at all surprising being more numerous to the score of 2 to 1, having disordered half the enemy cavalry with supporting fire from their horse artillery and finally being of better quality and 'Elan'!
They German cavalry did manage however to kill General Birche, commander of the French Chasseurs a Chevals brigade.
BELOW: The results of the cavalry battle. All the German cavalry routed from the field.

BELOW: The situation at the end of turn four. The French secure the high ground to the north and south of Lambsnag. The town is still held and a large regiment of Highlanders still provide support, however the allies are very battered with three Regiments of foot broken and two regiments of cavalry routed from the field.

Turn Five: Still no reinforcements for the Allies. The Bavarian Guard Grenadiers rally, (now spent and 'wavering') but the Wurttemberg Guard Lights disperse and a lost for this battle. The turn is spent reorganizing a defence on Kornchip Heights. The French for their part manage to drive off the wavering Highlanders leaving the sole 'Large' Regiment of Scots behind Lambsnag. They also launch yet another assault on the town and again, the attackers, (the Swiss this time) are beaten back. 

 ABOVE: The 'Small' Highland regiment (waving) catches more hot lead. The result sees them retiring quickly up the Kornchip Heights.
BELOW: The French and Polish cavalry advance towards Kornchip Heights. The Irish Infantry link up with their mounted brothers.

 ABOVE: The Bavarian Grenadiers rally after crossing the Dinneroll.
BELOW: The Swiss assault Lambsnag.

Turn Six: HUZZAH!!! A 5 is rolled. More British arrive. This time it's the 5th Division.

The Allies are still holding on grimly but it's looking bad. The French are closing in on three sides. The Allies are pushed back to the foot of the Kornchip Heights. The British 2nd division to the south of Lambsnag are looking particularly vulnerable. All along the battlefield fire fights rage. Finally the Bavarian's in Lambsnag can't take any more punishment and are broken by the massive weight of fire that is brought down on them. 

 ABOVE and BELOW: The Bavarian 11th Regt is finally driven from Lambsnag.

Now the French make what they hope is one last push. The Swiss move into the now vacant Lambsnag. The three French Infantry to the south hurl themselves on the Bavarian Light infantry and the Small English Regiment on their flank. It's 3 V 2 and all are 'disordered' except one of the French Brigades. The fire from the Bavarians and English scores a hit on each on some of the French but they all charge home. The hand to hand combat results in one French Brigade reduced to wavering, but both of the Allied Regiments are routed.

The French also launched their cavalry up the Kornchip Height at the British positions there, but it was at this point the allies concede defeat and decided to withdraw as best they can from the Kornchip Heights.

 ABOVE and BELOW: The French Charge in and receive fire but not enough to stop them. The Allies are broken by the bayonet.

    Another very enjoyable game of FoG:N.

I really like these rules. The ebb and flow is well captured and their is plenty of 'Friction' to frustrate your plans.

As usual. Comments are welcomed.

Cheers