General d’Armee: Battle for crossroads Poniedziałek, Lu 13 2023 

Black Powder - Napoleonic Wars and Bolter.pl and French and General d'Armee and Perry Miniatures and Portugal and Prussian and Russians and United Kingdom and Warlord Games tancreddebeauville 06:00

On last Saturday we played bigger battle in General d’Armee – on one side were British and Portugal led by generals Damian and Tomek, on the other side were mix of many different European nations represented by French, Prussia and Russia led by Bartosz, Jakub, Piotr and me.

British are coming.
British centre.
Part of our centre were secured by Russian infantry and Polish Uhlan regiment.
Left flank secured by several cavalry regiments.
French securing other part of the centre.
Prussian took right flank of our combined force.
British left flank opposed by Prussians.
Battle for a tawern and crossroads.
Russian artillery ready to open fire.
Chapel – silent deponent of battle.
Among British were Portugal regiment.
British right flank secured by cavalry and artillery.
Close range fire beetwen Russian Jagers and British artillery.
British seized defensive position in tavern.
Prussians taking positions behind hedgehod.
British slowly advancing on left flank.
Cavalry charged on British cavalry.
British cavalry after short clash turned tail and fled.
Polish uhlans in full speed charged British cannon battery…
… and in advance galloped toward British sharpshooters.
One of the Russian batallions had enough and retreated.
British cavalry regrouped into squares.
In act of bravery uhlans charged British square.
Left flank secured and British reorganized to defend against massed cavalry regiments.

Summary:
– it was great battle – from initial four players we grow up to six generals around the table.
– victory belonged to continentals and cavalry did great job on the left flank.

 

General d’Armee – Prussia vs Russia (EN/PL) Sobota, Sier 6 2022 

Black Powder - Napoleonic Wars and General d'Armee and Perry Miniatures and Polish and Prussian and Russians and Warlord Games tancreddebeauville 20:14

Last Tuesday we played with Karaś small battle in General d’Armee – we still learn this system and it was third game I played and second one with field marshal Karaś. I played with my Russians and Karaś played with his Prussians.

W ostatni wtorek zagraliśmy z Karasiem małą grę w General d’Armee – nadal uczymy się systemu i to była moja trzecia gra i druga w którą zagrałem z marszałkiem polowym Karasiem. Grałem swoimi Rosjanami i Karaś grał swoimi Prusakami.

Summary:
– Prussians took bridge and route Russians.


Podsumowanie:
– Prusacy zdobyli most i odrzucili Rosjan.

 

Black Powder: Breakthrough/Przełamanie (EN/PL) Sobota, Lip 30 2022 

Black Powder - Napoleonic Wars and French and Perry Miniatures and Polish and Prussian and Russians and Warlord Games tancreddebeauville 23:05

Today in Bolter.pl, Wrocław, Poland we played struggle beetwen those bad French plus Polish Vistula Legion and Prussia, Russia and one Poland regiment in the service of Tzar Alexander. Our battle was on two flanks and unfortunately flank held by Prussia got too many attacks from French side – they were broken.

Dzisiaj w Bolterze we Wrocławiu zagraliśmy potyczkę między tymi złymi Francuzami i wspierającym ich polskim Legionem Nadwiślańskim a Prusami, Rosją i jednym polskim regimentem w służbie cara Aleksandra. Nasza bitwa toczyła się na dwóch skrzydłach i niefortunnie skrzyło trzymane przez Prusy pękło z powodu licznych francuskich ataków.

Russians in the column. Rosjanie w kolumnie marszowej.
French and Polish line. Francuska i Polska linia.
Prussians waiting for some more paint. Prusacy czekający na więcej farby.
Russians and Polish Uhlans held flank. Rosjanie i Polscy ułani utrzymali skrzydło.

Summary:
– we wait for September to play something bigger.

Podsumowanie:
– czekamy na wrzesień by zagrać coś większego.

 

Black Powder: Let’s start in Anno Domini 2022 Sobota, Sty 22 2022 

Black Powder - Napoleonic Wars and French and Perry Miniatures and Polish and Russians and Spain and Warlord Games tancreddebeauville 20:07

Today we played on small battle (only three of us arrived – me, Jędrzej and Karaś) in Black Powder 2nd edition. On one side were French and on the other Spain and Russia. We played in Bolter.pl – Wrocław, PL. Many thanks for Bolter crew – today Basiorek and Rafał, as we got all terrains we need (today I was there around 6th hours).

Russianns came first and started shooting at French column with they gun battery.
Russians in column to attack.
French cavalry arrived on right flank.
Russians turn right to welcome enemy cavalry.
More and more French – Russians try to secure crossroads.
Polish Uhlans Regiment in the Tzar service.
French battalion took Russian battery during fight on bayonnets.
Russian muskeeter batallion march to other flank…
… too late to savve gun battery.
Polish Uhlans charged and was countercharged.
Spanish arrived in columns.
Uhlans retreat after fight with cuirrasiers.
French charged on unpreapared Spanish marching in column.
Cavalry regiments meet again.
One Russian infantry batallion was finally broken by French artillery batteries.
Uhlans regrouped.
Russian main battalion broken French battalion during fight on bayonnets.
Spanish in column do not knew what was going on at the head of they columns.
Brave batallion run for they lives…
… as French batteries foccused all they fire on them.
French cuirrasiers advanced.
The battle was over. French lead by sir Błażej won over my Russians and Karp (if I’m correct) Spanish.

Summary:
– great game as always, thank you developers from Warlord Games for it (many old game developers responsible for my belowed WFB).
– we had some mindfuck with some rules, as we missed Krisu and Damian, still we had fun.
– Wrocław, PL – is open to play with ppl from other countries 🙂 .
– I know I had to paint more, thank you Marian for friendy reminder! To be shure, when I’m happy with painted batallion, Marian paints army.
– wish all great weekend!

Music I love, even if policy sucks I like Russians and normality in contacts with Russia and Bialorussia. Let’s remember tragic fate of Romanow family.

 

Black Powder: Austrians vs Russians Piątek, Lip 9 2021 

Austria and Black Powder - Napoleonic Wars and Perry Miniatures and Polish and Russians and Warlord Games tancreddebeauville 22:00

Today we played with Marian from Maniexite a game in Bolter.pl. Thank you Rafał and Piotr for help with terrains. Any time, any way – good game.

  • First unit arrived to the sleeping village.
  • Did maneuver of march and get into attack column.
  • Uhlans got order to outflank Austrians.
  • Austrians arrived.
  • Both sides taking slowly positions.
  • Russians moved they cannons.
  • But had some disorder among infantry batallions.
  • It was really hard to move for Russians.
  • Uhlans started they ride on the enemy flank.
  • Russians charged on bayonnets.
  • One of the batallions failing to move again.
  • Elite batallion was broken in hand to hand combat and left field of battle.
  • Austrians started shooting at Russian who were failing test after test.
  • Following they leader uhlans made move.
  • And stand on the rear of Austrian force.
  • Orders were received and last left batallion of Russians moved.
  • Austrians moved to welcome uhlans.
  • 2nd batallion stand long, many times shaken.
  • Artillery vs infantry.
  • Uhlans received some hits from Austrian grenadiers.
  • Shaken Russian units stand valiantly against the odds.
  • Artillery managed to break one Russian batallion.
  • But another one came and destroyed battery of cannons.
  • Last one batallion, outnumbered from almost all sides.
  • Austrians last salvo…
  • … broke last Russians and send them running from the field.

Summary:
– fast and nice game won by Marian Austrians.
– lost of my main batallion happened too fast.

 

Black Powder: Polish Uhlan Regiment – Russian Empire Wtorek, Czer 8 2021 

Black Powder - Napoleonic Wars and Perry Miniatures and Polish and Russians tancreddebeauville 00:37

After painting batallion of Russian infantry year ago, I started investigating if there were any Polish units in Russian army and I discovered, that there were Polish uhlans. It was fast decision – I wanted to have them in my Tzar army. Many thanks to friend from Maniexite for help in case of sending me this URL and then great pictures of different uhlan units uniforms in Russian Empire army (if I want more uhlans, next one unit will be Wohlynian Uhlans) – I added picture of Polish uhlans I got at the end. As we have discussion on our FB group about banners in light cavalry, I will give standard bearer banner I found here. First unit for light cavalry brigade is finished, more to be done in the future.

 

Black Powder: 2nd batalion of Brest Litovsk, Lithuania, Livonia and Smolensk inspections Niedziela, Maj 16 2021 

Black Powder - Napoleonic Wars and Perry Miniatures and Russians and Warlord Games tancreddebeauville 18:10

Today I finished second batalion of Brest Litovsk, Lithuania, Livonia and Smolensk inspections – at least I hope that such regiment existed – research before me, still guys are under Moscow banner. I have plan to create brigade composed of three batalions.

Models in unit are compositions of Warlord Games and Perrys Miniatures and they fit well. Paintes used there are mix of GW ordinary paints and shades plus contrasts (black, green and skin) – I will add list later to this post.

From today I know one more thing about cartridge boxes – I guess that in such big organization which was tzar army someone send them wrong ones 😀 .