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 🙂 !
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.
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.
On last weekend we played a battle in General d’Armee, there were four of us, Bartek and Jędrzej were playing France and me and Tomek were playing coalition lead by Great Britain with Portugal, Russia and Spanish as here allies.
Many thanks to all participants for great game and for great time after, on dinner in SOTE pub close to Bolter. Of course I hope that we will continue our games and I will wake up again on Sunday mornings.
Both sides started in opposite corners of the table – here objectives – two stone bridges. Allied cavalry appeard first, British hussars and Polish Uhlans loyal to the Tzar.Our plan was to cross the river and secure bridge for infantry.French cavalry and horse artillery.Both sides visible next to great coffee served in Bolter Cafe.Mixed brigade of Portugal, Russian and Spanish. Had to finish bases and some details of my Russian Jagers.French cavalry advances toward Allied cavalry which crossed river.French infantry march to the other bridge.Combined Portugal, Russian and Spanish brigade march slowly.French cavalry formed into combat formation.Allied cavalry formed to fight as well.British are coming.Cuirassiers securing flank.First clash beetwen cavalry.Allied cavalry losed some combats.British advances forward.On the opposite side French march in the column to take position.Several French units are too much for this bridge.Most of our cavalry regiments ceased to exists, many Uhlans were lost in the river.French cavalry rule over the battlefield. French cavalry manged to cross water in the middle – coming in sight of allied infantry.
Summary: – at the end French succesfully secured one bridge, another one was still in hands of Allied troops. I think that we need more time to play such game – we played around four hours. – thank you to Rafał for showing me rulebook for this, after small talk why I losed interest in Black Powder ruleset, which is simple, but few things with really bad rolls can destroy your will to play. Then tests with Kuba and Tomek – that’s it, I’m waiting for second edition of General d’Armee.
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.
Yesterday we played with Tomek another training game in General d’Armee. We practice it with smaller armies than proposed in rulebook and without some rules as at now they could make our game practice totally impossible. But we will return to those rules in the close future.
On Saturday we played again with small forces deployed on table – no fog of war, no reserves, visible units as they are – just learning in simplest way. So on one side were Tomek British and on the other were Europeans from Russia and others – as we wanted to have all miniatures painted.
We played on standard 48″x72″ table representing some crossroads and different types of fields – some of them were difficult terrain limiting movement to half. Everyone in those armies were regular (excluding British infantry), gun batteries were Elite. Both sides had four regiments each and up to four dices from adiutants.
Infantry in line move slower.Cavalry rode ahead.Several lucky cannonballs panicked Polish Uhlans.British against Russians.Cavalry clashes as Polish lancers countercharge British hussars.Russian batallion finally losed they nerves and fled.Another regiment of Uhlans broke hussars.One of the British batallions broke from Russian infantry and artillery fire.Another batallion broken by heavy artillery and muskeet fire.
Summary: – up to this point I know that there are some more important things we have to use in our games, at now we focus on basic rules, as we want to know them well. We will play with more rules next time. – there are different sort of soldiers avaible – so for me playing this system in usual meeting engage scenarios armies should be created with system points as irreguar cossacs or freshly recruited soldiers behave different way than regulars, veterans or elite units. Rulebook says which formations can be elite – those famous units like guards, 95th regiment and so on. It will need some investigation in the future as bulk of most armies were regular or recruits with some exceptions. – unit can be of different size, small, standard and large. We field them the same way as we do it in Black Powder. – ranges and movement are shorter for units than in Black Powder – muskeet has 9″ of range of fire, rifles are much better so it’s another reason to use skirmishing units like Jagers. I have to paint my own unit of that infantry. Units move less than in Black Powder, it’s a plus as tables are not from rubber 🙂 . – I discovered some useful things on this blog: Sir Able Brush and on this blog Chasseur Acheval – there is useful army creator – really nice work. On second blog I found some ruleset called 321 – Fast Play Napoleonic Rules. – there will be more about General d’Armee on my blog, just need time – me and people I play.
Today we played scenario done by „Gargamel” – there were Adam Polish Vistula Legion, Bartosz and Jędrzej French on one side and Kuba Prussians, Tomek British and my Russians on the other side. French were escorting some important guns and others had to prevent them from doing it. On right side of the table were Alpine Mountains were French army was marching.
Adams Polish Vistula Legion.Russians advance to take enemy guns.French column during march.All on one. Single Russian battalion stood they ground.French cavalry ride on the British wing.Russians battalions marched on the left and right with artillery support.French cavalry charged on Russian artillery.Artillerist runned away for they lives.Some hand to hand combat in the middle.I thought it’s the end of my batallion, but…… but it was end of one French unit which turn it tail and fled.
Summary: – nice game, but too many random situations. I think that we need to update some rules. – battle was over after turn 5 and several unlucky charges done by French cavalry.
On 27.02.2022 there were a battle of French and Prussia versus English – continental Europe side dominates over Anglosaxons this day. Battle took place in Bolter.pl, Wrocław, Poland.
Main target for both armies were to secure crossroads.
French battery.French companies moving across forest.
Summary: – I was observer there, as I was too late and my Russians didn’t fight this epic battle.
Today in Wrocław we played our monthly Black Powder game. Today we played Great Britain against unusual alliance of France and Russian Empire. Today British side focused on crossing river (cross it with 13 infantry battalions/cavalry regiments) in four places (two bridges and two fords), French and Russian tried to stop them.
Two bridges, in addition there were two fords – one on far left and other on far right.
HQ of allies inside monastery tower.
British are coming!
Russians with supporting French on right flank.
Left flank belonged to French, middle belonged to French plus cavalry reserve (including Polish uhlans on tsar service).
French marching.
Time to start.
French send screen of skirmishers ahead of main units.
More and more soldiers of the British Crown.
When right flank had problems with understanding orders, middle and left flank on allies side moved. Artillery took hill and hid behind a fence.
Russian artillery got orders to shoot British battery on the other side of the river.
British crossed bridge in the fron of Russians.
French moved into the forest.
HQ send small regiments of light cavalry to aid Russians and French.
British crossed also other bridge. French tries to send them back.
More British in front of Russian flank.
Charge on bayonnets with supporting charge of uhlans on the flank.
Both lines shooting they opponents.
British also want to pass river by the ford.
Few units of French-Russians alliance were broken and left field .
Hussars are coming.
Uhlans charged unit in it rear and unhappily were broken and fled.
Taking position to shoot on the flank of hussars.
The end.
Russian brigade remained unbroken with maybe some more French.
Something is coming back probably?
Summary: – again great game played in Bolter.pl. – thank you all for today game.
Today we played big game in Black Powder on one side were Damians and Tomeks British, on other side were Kris French, Grzegorz Prussians, Jędrzej Spanish and Portugals and my Russians with Polish uhlan regiment. Our target was to secure both bridges. We played our game in Bolter.pl.
Beginning of the game.
Only one Russian batallion arrived and soon British started shooting on them.
French infantry and cavalry charged British.
One battalion of sons of Albion was routed and fled the field. More British were coming passing the bridges.
British forming battle line.
Uhlans encouraged by French action…
… charged.
Several hand to hand combat took place. One of our cavalry regiment was routed from the field by British artillery battery.
Uhlans first time worked well.
After destroying infantry batallions Polish Uhlans charged guns.
Russian and French infantry moving, to take the bridge.
Cavalry charge in the middle.
Uhlans broke cavalry regiment.
Kris French charged on bayonnets.
Tomeks columns in the forest.
Bloody fight to control bridge.
British cavalry on the flank destroyed infantry and charged uhlans on the flank.
Uhlans routed from the field.
Scottish batallion send Russian batallion from the field.
Kris cavalry took bridge after routing of British infantry.
Summary: – it was good game – we played around 3,5 hours. – I missed few photos, as Grzesiek cavalry brigade was looking for a ford and they charged on Damians cavalry, routing them.
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