Papelotte, June 18 1815, 1pm

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MengJiao

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.

MengJiao

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.

MengJiao

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have withdrawn since things are going wrong to the west.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).

MengJiao

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.

MengJiao

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.