Age of Eagles Battle for Orthez New terrain for 6mm

There seem to be some  wavering among  players in favour of 28mm gaming at out club so the way to counteract this is to tease them back with a new 6mm Terrain.

Tiles are 90cm x45cm  and have template sides for interchangeability.

So a Game to try it out.Parts of Order of Battle of Orthez 1814 on a fictitiousterrain .  1000pts each .

Woods made from 25mm sheets of foam cut in irregular shape and roughened with a wire brush

River/Plaster poured in recess painted and varnished

                                                            Armies deployed. French side.

Allied Side 

Wellington concentrated Beresford Corps in the centre while holding his hilly left flank 

with Alten's Light Division

Faced with a weak centre Beresford ordered Walker's 7th Div to secure 

the town of Orthez while Cole's 4th Div struck Soult's Certre

Clinton's 6th Div advanced on the right flank 

Rey's 11stand Brigade from Taupin's 4th Div was hit hard

losing 6stands and two Batteries in the ensuing breakthrough

French  Chasseurs threatening were counteracted with 

Stapleton's Light  Dragoons

to be continued

Second session 

Having tied up 3 Larger brigades and 4 batteries and led them away 

from the centre Alton's Light brigade make a quick exit.

With the French centre cleared except for a Chasseur brigade 

harassing until defeated in detail by Somerset Cav Brigade

On Wellingtons Right Clinton's 6th Division keeping pressure 

on 

The battle for the town of Orthez resuled in some heavy

 casualties for the british

 Overwhelming British cavalry in numbers

 as Fane's  13th and 14th light dragoons had some problems

 beating away the French

british right

town of Orthez

Soult decided to call it off

Age of Eagles Pickup game

From the Saxon Side

Prussian right flank reserve Cavalry under General Oppen

Facing them 26th Light Cav Brigade the Elite Saxon Hussar Regiment

brigaded with Prinz Clemens Uhlan regiment

Prussians Charging uphill

Saxon 24th Div on the Right flank

Prussians making a breakthrough with the

1st Leib Hussar regiment supporting

Oudinot (on white horse) attached 

Oudinot Killed in action 

Prussian Konigin Dragoon Regiment checks Saxon 26th Cav brigade

Saxons still secure on the hill

game Draw

yet another Elchingen this time in 6mm

in a series of game testing with Age of Eagles this time using my 6mm armies .
I opted to defend with the Austrians which are on the far side of the table

French amass to storm the bridge 

 Reinforcements enter early on both sides  but Austrians have to roll on reserve movement

 First French assault is repulsed with minor casualties

 Second assault routs Austrians back with cavalry support following closely

 special scenario rules negate the use of roads due to weather and any unit rolling a 10 for firing is out of ammo for the rest of the game as the ammo wagons got stuck in the mud . Consequently two brigades and a battery cannot fire.

Age of Eagles Elchingen replay

Here is another replay of Elchingen as a series of games to refresh on the rules system

  Here the Austrian right is kept at bay while the French right envelopes Riesch 2nd Division

 under withering fire the Austrian cavalry were kept disordered and decimated

 A sortie by Auersperg's brigade from Ober Elchingen was checked by Caulaincourt dragoons and Rouget's brigade who were repulsed without great loss

 The counter attack at Ober Elchingen

 While the french close in on Hermann's Grenadiers and Mescery's brigade

Austrian 2nd Div collapsed  and Riesch calls it a day

The Battle of Elchingen 28mm Age of Eagles

Age of eagles scenarios
http://napoleonicscenarios.weebly.com/

Demo game to persuade players to try Age of Eagles

 Used Saxons instead of Austrians

David Grech: Re basing British Anglo dutch 6mm H&R

This is Sergio's Army which has been idle for about 25 years and based for wrh 1745-1850
I have rebased it for Age of Eagles
its two rank form 1 1/8 inch width by 1inch depth rep 360 men
artillery 3/16 /gun  for 6 gun batteries
cav 1x1  rep 180 men

David Grech: Wargaming room make over

This is what it looked like before the makeover