Conwy Wargames Club 15mm 1812 Bavarians vs Russians

There were 2 choices of game at the club meeting to be played side by side. The first to be set up was the 15mm Napoleonic game put on by Mel set in 1812 using the General De Brigade rules.

The scenario involved roughly equal forces of brigade strength. The Bavarians allies of the French needed to take a village. The Russians need to stop them.

The following captions and descriptions of the game are my interpretation of what I saw and heard. All errors are my memory and a strong drive to stitch a story together.

Bavarian brigade

Russian brigade. Their centre held by a battery in a redoubt.

Russian Hussars

Bavarian light horse

Bavarian infantry

Bavarian Jagers

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Bavarian general and staff

Bavarian attacks goes in to the village crammed with defending Russians

Is the village doomed?

Russian cossacks and Bavarian cavalry clash

Waiting Russians

The redoubt packed with one battery of Russian guns

The Russians surge out of the village and hit the Bavarian attack column

The Russians hold

Guns dominating the centre ground of the battlefield.

Bavarian jager bravely holding their baseline

Bavarian artillery.

The Bavarian plan was to avoid the artillery in the centre. Hold off the Russian cavalry and storm the village with all the infantry. It did not go well. The Russian cossacks managed to charge the Bavarian light horse in the flank and kept charging until they were run off the board. The Russians could then focus on the attack on the village and defeated the Bavarian assault.

A solid Russian win. Napoleon will not be reaching Moscow through this route!

1st Club game tomorrow

I'm off to the Conway Wargames Club monthly meet tomorrow at the Colwyn Sea Sports Association. I haven't been to a club game in 15 odd years and I'll have 2 games to choose from, a 15mm Napoleonic General De Brigade game or a 28mm Dark Ages Dux Bellorum game.

Of course, as you can tell from this blog, I have gamed a lot in between time but this is the first time in a while, not counting show participation games where I get to turn up without bring terrain or figures to play.

I have played General De Brigade and prefer Black Powder, but I haven't played Dux Bellorum and fancy giving these rules a go.

Right I'm off to sharpen my seax.

Now Miniature Wargames catches The Megalomaniac on camera!

Another upstanding wargames magazine has captured my visage. This time not at a show but at Battle Groups Ponyri weekend. I, and everyone else can be seen on page 42. This time I have been caught wearing something more fetching as I am sporting a Last Exit to Nowhere Obi Wan club T-shirt (inspired by Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom). I find black such a thinning colour!

The eagle eyed will notice that the man of the match photos have had their labels reversed, luckily they are holding up their certificates with their real names on.

It was a great weekend, I enjoyed all 3 of my defeats to the Soviet hordes.