Today we played our monthly game in General d’Armee – there were only three of us, me, my ally Rafał and Tomek who took opposite side. We had four brigades per side – three infantry brigades and one cavalry, both sides had two batteries of guns attached to infantry batallions.

On sir Thomas side were British along several Germans and Spanish, on the other side were France, Poland and Russia under my and de Rafał leadership. Both sides had to take objectives – one worth two points – which was to control road in the forest in the middle and two smaller – roads next to village chapel and another one next to burned tavern.

Forest of Shadows – place which was objective #1.
Small chapel dedicated to the Jesus Christ – minor objective #2.
Ruins of the tavern – „Rome” – minor objective #2.
General Rafal battalion of French.
French lead by me in the middle, next to the Russians and forest.
Both sides were on the opposite sides.
British of sir Thomas are coming.
British and Germans on the other flank.
Two Russian batallions of line infantry, artillery and jagers companies arrived to the field of battle.
British vs Russians and incoming French&Poles on our right flank.
Our left flank, artillery ready to fire…
… one on the hill and another one on the field.
So I told my comrades: first shoot and I will get out of ammo which happend then 🙂 .
Both sides coming closer to fight for the ruins of tavern.
Casadores with rifles scored several hits on Russian jagers.
Fortunately combined French and Polish cavalry came from reserves to oppose British cavalry. Just in time.
Stable situation on left flank.
British cavalry of sir Thomas.
Left flank belonged to French from continental allied side.
Close to shoot at each other, both sides started fire from muskeets.
Russians fired to much powder, so to the end they cannons were much less effective.
British bravely charged on Polish uhlans and French cuirrassiers.
Russian jagers escaped when saw that fighting for a forest is without chance to win.
Cuirassiers won combat and enemy retreated to they lines.
Flank charge, devastating one.
First French battalion broken in hand to hand combat on bayonnets.
Cavalry of continental armies in a triumph.
Bavarian battalion.

Summary:
– thank you generals Tomek and Rafał for great game, thank you to Rafał and Bolter.pl for help with models and terrains.
– we still learn system, but it’s nice and looks pretty good compared to one I liked, but with my feral rolls I cannot play in it for maybe one last year – this one is pretty good.
– we had more than 500 miniatures on battlefield, which is not biggest number we had during our games in Napoleonic games. There will be more this Autumn.
– if someone is interested to play with us from time to time – don’t worry to comment here or under post – we are based in Wrocław, Poland. Wrocław is not far away from many Polish cities, it’s also close to Berlin, Dresden, Prague or even Bratislava or Vienna. To be sure, we have great place to play and good pubs close to it 😉 .
– the result of a battle was a Draw.
– close to us were tournament of Song of Ice and Fire – in Bolter tournaments of a different systems are regular.