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After Action Reports => Tabletop AARs => Topic started by: MengJiao on October 07, 2016, 08:35:49 PM

Title: Churubosco!
Post by: MengJiao on October 07, 2016, 08:35:49 PM

Yep, August 20, 1847, poorly coordinated US Army attack on a Mexican rear guard.  Here is the initial set up (note the Slati Sluice Inn from which Frederick the Great made his ill-fated and near-sighted assessment of the Austrian positions at Kolin in 1757 on the upper left) :

Title: Re: Churubosco!
Post by: MengJiao on October 07, 2016, 08:38:17 PM
 
   And then I don't help matters by assaulting the Convent.  The Mexicans roll and chit-pull well.  A Bloodbath ensues (more or less the historical result):

   

Title: Re: Churubosco!
Post by: MengJiao on October 07, 2016, 08:41:55 PM
Quote from: MengJiao on October 07, 2016, 08:38:17 PM

   And then I don't help matters by assaulting the Convent.  The Mexicans roll and chit-pull well.  A Bloodbath ensues (more or less the historical result):

   


    About an hour into the battle, the Mexicans counter-attack and it goes well.  I declare a victory for Mexico: