Today in Wrocław, PL we play a game in General d’Armee in Bolter. Battle had place in area of villages Badrolls and Worserolls placed somewhere in continental Europe. On one side were French and Württemberg lead by generals Jędrzej and Kris, on the other side were anti-napoleonic coalition of Russia and United Kingdom lead by me and general Tomas.
Before battle started some agents managed to do some things in British-Russian camp – damaged black powder, add some extra stuff to food etc.
Württemberg on right flank of French coalition.French in the middle and left flank of French coalition.Russian infantry brigade in the middle. Russian in the middle and United Kingdom on right.French Hussars.Württemberg advance when Russian brigade stay and watch.British advance towards French.95th took positions in the forest.French advance towards British. Russian artillery open fire, but black powder was wet – someone sabotaged it before battle started. Russian brigade composed of Polish Uhlans recruited from Polish nobility and Don Cossacs arrived.French took village „Badrolls” before Russians were able to secure it.Russians Jagers opened fire on advancing Württemberg troops.Polish-Cossacks cavalry tried to change situation on the field.Cavalry of both sides contested on British-Russian right flank.Bayonnets fixed – Russian infantry charged Württemberg batallion. Beautiful Kris Württemberg. Russian infantry advance to mere village „Badrolls” – symbol of British and Russian defeat. Russian batallion took ground after winning in hand to hand combat. A lot of fire and French were still in the famous now village. Situation in the middle where both sides shell each other with artillery. French cuirassiers charged Russian batallion and…… broke it in one charge.Russian infantry prepare to stand they ground against heavy French cavalry. Even though soldiers as Russian infantry was weren’t able to held they ground and did step back, artillery limbered.Cavalry clash on Allied right flank.Shattered Russian brigade still fight.Polish uhlans vs French cuirassiers.Retreat of British hussars. Moment when I losed my infantry brigade, as they morale went pretty low.Plus one more brigade was broken.My allied general Tomas held his ground, but enemy took all key positions.
Summary: – with my ally general Tomas we tried to do anything to win or at least to hold positions, but without results. It was a curse of that place – villages Badrolls and Worserolls will stay in our memory forever. – thank you to Jędrzej, Kris and Tomek for a great game and to Adam who sat with us on this rainy Sunday in Wrocław. – anyway, I don’t remember when I had so many, so bad rolls in General d’Armee – I wasn’t alone, general Tomas had in critical moments the same rolls as me. Wet black powder, soldier who ate food with poison before battle started, broken cavalry equipment etc. Anyway, next time will be better 🙂 !
On Autumn Sunday (08.10.2023) in Wrocław gaming club Bolter we played our monthly weekend game in General d’Armee. There were a lot of us, as I don’t remember when last time we played game with seven people. Today we had game three on three and one of us was Game Master – thank you Goldfish! One one side were coalition of Austrians lead by generals Piotr and Rafał and Russians lead by me as general Winter, on the other side were French lead by Jędrzej and Damian and Wittemberg lead by Kris.
The clash began at dawn.Russian battery deployed on the field, to cover center and right flank.Next to them position was taken by Austrian artillery of Rafał.Piotr’s Austrians on left flank.In the center French columns lead by Damian advanced toward Russian positions.Shrine and crossroad were one of the objectives we fought for.Supply wagon was another objective.French and Wittember cavalry lead by Kris.Five ADC’s achieved.Russian infantry advances in the center. Brave maneuver on right flank done by Austrians secured village.Wittemberg on the left flank of French coalition.More French arrived on the field of battle.Cavalry lead by Kris on right flank of French coalition.French vs Russians in the center.Mr Piotrs Austrians on left flank trying to capture village and distillery.Militia bravely did square against incoming charge of French cavalry.One of four Russian batallions – this one was borrowed from Dardzin.Austrian hussars arrived from reserves on the right flank.Polish Uhlans and Don Cossacs came from reserves to support center.Everything so close, both sides attempts to use skirmishers to distract enemy.Brave charge and then…… coming back to they own lines.French cuissaries and lancers on the left flank lead by Jędrzej.Austrians vs Wittemberg.A lot of action in the center.Russian batallion charged on bayonnets and took the ground, a lot of Chaos everywhere.French unit in skirmish moved into the forest.Allied cavalry spread more Chaos in French ranks.Brave charge of Austrian hussars on the right flank pushed French cavalry back.Another charge of Austrian cavalry on the left flank.
Summary: – thank you all for great game on Sunday evening – finally our GM also took command of Austrian left by Piotr. – victory belonged to French side, but one or two more turns we doesn’t had final result could be totally different.
Austria and Russia vs France, still our game wasn’t historical.
On last Friday (29.09.2023) in Bolter, Wrocław we played two on two game on 2,500 points per side – on one side were German states alliance of Prussia (Kuba) and Württemberg (Kris) – on the other were Austria (Rafał) and Russia (me).
Last month we started to playing more often in General d’Armee as one game per month during weekend is not enough and it’s harder to become familiar with rules when you play once per month only.
Shrine and village on the left were objectives.One of the objectives.Russian brigade comming with Jagers in front.Another part of the same Russian brigade. Kuba’s Prussians.Kriss Wittemberg’s.Württemberg’s general.Austrian-Russian right flank composed of Russian brigades – some batallions are borrowed.Württemberg advance on the German states left flank.Russians trying to capture supply cart.Two battalions and artillery covering the middle.On the other flank Austrians meet Prussians.German states artillery set up on the hill in the middle.Russian artillery trying to engage German states artillery. Polish Uhlans lead a way supported by Don Cossacs.Württembergs cavalry, including cuirrasiers.Württemberg’s infantry batallions marched toward Russians lines.Austrian infantry batallions engage Prussians on our left flank.Russian infantry step back…… and send batallion to defend village.While in center two batallions try to advance and outflank Württemberg brigade.„Bayonnets fixed!” – Austrians charged on left flank…while they cavalry maneuver to outflank Prussians brigades.Heavy fighting beetwen uhlans and cuirrasiers.Prussians got loses and fall back after heavy fighting with Austrians.Outnumbered and with a lot of casultaties Russian batallion held village against whole Württembergs brigade.Cossacks retreated after fight with remnants of cuirrasier unit.
Summary: – finally German states won, after initial successes on our left flank – Prussians finally rallied and pushed back Austrians, on the right flank Württemberg marched forward and my Russians weren’t able to do anything other than trying to hold them. German states took most of the objectives and broke all of our brigades at the end of the game. – thank you for a good game Kuba, Kris and Rafał!
On Friday evening (15.09.2023) we managed to play one more bigger game a month, than usually we are playing for last two years. So now we have plans to play one or two more games a month, than only one we played on weekends.
So we managed to played a battle beetwen armies worth 2,500 points per side – on one side was Kris with German state – Württemberg and Napoleonic French, on the other side were allied force of Austrians lead Rafał, Prussians lead by Mr. Goldfish and Russians lead by me.
We played our game as always in Bolter, great place in Wrocław, Poland. If you are interested in playing with us – you can find us on Bolter Club page or on Wrocławscy Bonapartyści.
Württemberg artillery battery of Kris keeping eye on bridge.French cuirassiers and Württemberg dragons ready to go to the other side of river.The cavalry made a sortie across the river.Prussians jagers get into the forest.Austrian artillery battery and infantry batallions ready to invite French with hail of bullets.Russians advancing toward well prepared position in farmstead close to the bridge. My Russian force at now is composed of Western Oblast infantry brigade, Polish Uhlans, Cossacks, artillery and officers composed of Russians. Want to paint Moscow Grenadiers, Dragons from Sankt Petersburg and then maybe something from Psków or Smoleńsk plus one more unit of uhlans – Wohlynian regiment. Mr. Goldfish Prussians fougt well in the forest.The main task for allied forces were to take and hold bridges.Situation on the left flank…… goes out of control, Austrian infantry brigade losed nerves from one charge and left the field.Then opposite Russian artillery attempts to support advancing Russian infantry. Austrian cavalry lead countercharge against napoleonic forces. When Austrian get into combat with French and they ally…Polish Uhland and Don Cossacs in the service of Tsar charged on Württemberg battery and destroyed it. Several units broken left the field. Brave Prussians rushed to support collapsing left flank of Allied forces. Austrian hussars on the rear of French elite cavalry.Cossacs, Poles and Russians are coming in the name of greatest leader Tzar of Russia.Fighting to the bitter end Austrian cavalry do not give up.Russian Jagers engage with Württemberg infantry based in the farmstead.Polish uhlans lead the way!With incoming French units Allied left flank finally was broken in a moments.Too much alcohol or … glue said go down. After the messenger reported the defeat on the left wing, the Russian commander decided to send back several battalions.Prussians valiantly defending what was left from left flank. Follow me, boys! My Russians stand alone this time to the end.Uhlans and supporting them cossacs did retreat move.
Summary: – I spend good time, have some ideas for our next games. – thank you for great game to all my co-gamers and for all observers we had! – I think that I’m alive more than in February/March of 2022.
Today we played in Bolter, Wrocław, PL our monthly game in napoleonic times. There were five of us – three on Allied side – Rafał, Tomek and me and two on French side – Jędrzej and Kris.
We played four hours and we had to finnish game, as one of us had to go far away from place we were playing. Hope next time we will have more hours to play together!
In the rays of the rising sun……cavalry of both sides arrived on the field of battle, to take from march important hill.French cuirrasiers and lancers.Allied side cavalry on right flank.French cuirassiers galloped on the hill.On the left flank Russian cavalry composed of Polish nobility and Don Cossacks opposed heavy French cavalry.Allied guns set up and opened fire.The cavalry battle has begun.Brave charge of Polish Uhlans supported by cossacks on French heavy cavalry.More cavalry charges from both sides.The infantry regiments arrived on the battlefield.The broken Russian cavalry regiment retreated outside the battlefield.The French cuirassiers triumphed.French infantry on right flank marches forward to take the farmstead.More French infantry in the middle.Austrian infantry marching forward to take the hill.Another allied cavalry brigade has been broken and left the field.The Russian infantry was the first to take the farm before the French did.Russian stand and shoot against French charge on bayonnets.Allied artillery remained stationary on left flank.Russians tried to broke French on left flank, but without good leaders they weren’t able to charge on bayonnets.Austrians advanced to retake the hill.French heavy cavalry charged on Austrian infantry…… and broke them easily.Right flank of allied side was quite stable.
Summary: – four hours is not enough to play such game, even if French side was winning, Allied side still could do something in next few turns. – thank you for good game! – as we played for objectives – hill in the middle was worth 5 VP, farmsteads were worth 2 VP each and two smaller hills were worth 1 VP each. – at the end Allied controlled one farmstaed and one hill, when French took hill in the middle plus they owned also farmstead and smaller hill. Victory belonged to French today.
With dedication Jędrzejs cuirassiers. To be sure war, war never change according to scences from this short movie.
Today in Wrocław, PL – in Bolter greatest gaming centre we played one more great game in General d’Armee – today coalition of Austria, UK, Russia (including Poles loyal to the Tzar) fought battle against France. As a group we are players from Wrocław, PL, Ostrów Wielkopolski (thank you Jędrzej!), Bartek (living in Truntow, CZ). We are open to just play with ppl outside of our community – we play once a month there. Next time is 03.09 – it’s Sunday!
British, Russians in the town and French. Our team, usually we go for a dinner after game – today I played Bolt Action after. 8 hours – my spine, something is not good at all.Russian brigade deployed.Hold the ground!Ready, aim, fire!Russian cavalry – Polish Uhlans and Don Cossacs charge!Don Cossacs give up.Both sides fired a lot of bullets.Russian artillery joined shooting.French right wing looked strong, looked.Polish Uhlans after some loses decided.To leave the field.Austrians are coming to support Russians.Fighting in the town, no one controlled it – both sides were there.
Summary: – thank you guys for meeting and who cares about results of the game? In case of who was winner and loser – at the end good side was in better position.
On last Saturday we tried to recreate battle of Kulm, using General d’Armee rules. On one side were Bartek as general Dominique Vandamme with supporting leutnant Rafał and on the other side were a lot of generals of different ranks and names including me, Kris, Kuba and Piotrek. We played part of battle which happend when allied forces where in area of river beetwen Priestin and Karkwitz and French were marching from Kulm, occupying surrounding hills with they artillery batteries. When searched for battle of Kulm I found another nice report HERE.
Battle begun around 11:30 and lasted for around two hours, maybe something more – with talking after a game we’ve been in Bolter up to 15:00.
Battle ready allied troops waited along stream.French army advancing.A lot of allied artillery made life of French really hard.Austrian cavalry arrived and hastily charged French cavalry.Several combats happend before……allied Russian cavalry arrived and game was over for French.With allied centre held – French attack collapsed under heavy artillery fire.Wrocław Arsenal – weapon storage. Close to Bolter – place we played our Napoleonic game.
Summary: – battle ended with historical victory of black eagles alliance. – this time some of my unit’s played more elite roles of units which took part in this battle from Russian side. – we had Prussian general on our side, but whole Prussian army came to just take French prisoners. – almost whole my Russian HQ for most of battle spend time in the tavern close to the battlefield. – as ppl know usually infantry batallion/cavalry regiment are six bases, we used four and formations were bigger according to my memory, the same was with artillery – normally battery is two bases, but that day it was only one.
Video from reconstruction I found on page of Prestanov.
Finally I finished Don Cossacks bought year or two ago from Perry Miniatures – following sets I used to created this great looking unit: – Don Cossacks Command, – Don Cossacks lances upright, – Don Cossacks couched lances. I should finished them year ago, as they were almost finished, jet as many things in my life it happend with delay of one year. At least I’m happy with final effect. Perry Miniatures along Warlord Games made core of my Napoleonic Russian army.
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