MT17 Mixed Bag

Salamanca
Gonzo (French) 6 Banners and killed 37 blocks Shaqq 88 5 banners and killed 25 blocks.
Battle developed with much cavalry action on British left with after awhile the French got the worst of it. French put out some damage, but British effectively screened crippled units. French looked in dire shape until last turn withgreat inf rolls against cav and battlefield smoke obscuring British spoiling blow on right. Narrow victory and well played, thanks to Marco

Round 2 Austerlitz
Gonzo (French) 8 banners 18 blocks lost - Mark McG (Allied) 3 banners 35 blocks lost
French assault on right mowed through Austrian militia and had luck in dueling Cav charges and neutralized Austrian Cav who ended up sitting in objective hexes for several turns to prevent earlier French win. Eventually French inf returned but could not get pesky Cossacks to stay out of town. Russian Hvy Cav assault on Right lead to disaster and final banner. Thanks to Mark for a good game. Dice pretty lop sided in this one.

Round 5
Gonzo (French) 6 banners, 24 blocks; Tarheel 3 banners, 24 blocks

Tough fight. Saddled with probe lefts, French had only Right flank card guerillad at onset, but no more guerrilla cards drawn for Spanish. Spanish retreat was followed by French cav charge with mixed results, 1 Sp inf and cav, one fr cav dead. British push on their right chewed up French who could never get 1 hit on the redoubt. French block losses high but traded units. Ended game on good elan roll with inf leader forward and ca attack on exposes Br RL unit. Game ended with last row for French with numerous 1 and two point units and British right closing in.
Thanks for good game in difficult circumstances for Tarheel.

Laon, French Right

Tarheel (Allies) - 8 banners - 10 blocks lost
Charlescab (French) - 2 banners - 30 blocks lost

Initial allied move shifted units into Ardon and advanced cav and infantry towards the hills. French shifted center forces behind hills and took a pot shot with center ART to hit a LT. Allied response was a bold move up hills to attack a LT behind the hills, with a net Prussian retreat. More successful was the Prussian LC attacking the center FR ART with help from a cav forward card unit using combined arms with distant guns. It was an overrun, and the exploiting cav then hit one of the FR LT, with a hit and retreat forced. FR then maneuvered the two left flank cav units towards center to threaten the dangerous LC.

Prussians shifted action, swinging the LC towards the Athies side of the battlefield, of out of reach from Fr cav units. Some brief fire exchanges with little damage near Athies/center was followed by French HC and LC with infantry and artillery support pushing near Athies. Eventually, FR had their other FA unit destroyed and the LC put a FR unit in square. French cav finally arrived, and counterattacked Prussian LN, threatening their squared LN. The GLC however were surprised by prepared Prussian LN (inf first) and were completely destroyed in one volley. The CU met a square. However, the CU were hemmed with no retreat path when the Allied GR unit attacked causing heavy damage. Minor damage on CA.

Prussian advanced now on the other side of Athies with a screening force of Militia lancers. The every present LC shifted behind the FR on Athies flank side and caused heavy damage to one LN, which the miltia lancers then put into square.
Command control looked grim for France at that point. French adjusted a bit causing some damage to Prussians in center. To keep FR in square, the LC (now at 1 block) shifted back to first square, but was destroyed by the CU unit, which met its own fate as it got hemmed in by the allied LN coming out of square and finishing it off.

Finally, the FR Grenadier forces were able to take the town for the 2 banners to finish the battle.

Luck of the dice was totally Allied.

Thanks for the game!