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After Action Reports => Tabletop AARs => Topic started by: MengJiao on March 30, 2016, 01:35:10 PM

Title: El Molino del Rey, Sept 9, 1847
Post by: MengJiao on March 30, 2016, 01:35:10 PM

  Kind of an odd battle.  Each side had made elaborate plans to fool the other, but it came down to this assault on entrenched Mexicans with Baker Rifles:


 
Title: Re: El Molino del Rey, Sept 9, 1847
Post by: MengJiao on March 30, 2016, 02:38:59 PM
Quote from: MengJiao on March 30, 2016, 01:35:10 PM

  Kind of an odd battle.  Each side had made elaborate plans to fool the other, but it came down to this assault on entrenched Mexicans with Baker Rifles:




  The Mexican Plan unfolds like clock work (the US troops are mostly out of command and the Mexican cavalry arrives right on time):

Title: Re: El Molino del Rey, Sept 9, 1847
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 30, 2016, 03:43:18 PM
Doesn't look like a lot of room for maneuver
Title: Re: El Molino del Rey, Sept 9, 1847
Post by: BanzaiCat on March 30, 2016, 04:02:03 PM
That looks like Gringo...
Title: Re: El Molino del Rey, Sept 9, 1847
Post by: MengJiao on March 30, 2016, 04:31:28 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on March 30, 2016, 03:43:18 PM
Doesn't look like a lot of room for maneuver


It's Gringo!  Yep.  The two of the causeways into Mexico city are at the top of the map.  Lots of marsh all around.
Title: Re: El Molino del Rey, Sept 9, 1847
Post by: MengJiao on March 31, 2016, 09:11:59 AM
Quote from: MengJiao on March 30, 2016, 04:31:28 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on March 30, 2016, 03:43:18 PM
Doesn't look like a lot of room for maneuver


It's Gringo!  Yep.  The two of the causeways into Mexico city are at the top of the map.  Lots of marsh all around.

  Two Hours into the battle, the Mexican cavalry pulled off an okay charge, routing about a third of McClintock's brigade (here as his repl Abercromby since I flip brigade leaders to show the brigade has moved).  Wright's assault battalion has reached the molino.  Looks like a fight!