The Battle of the Chateau Sur Le Monde Part 2

This is the conclusion of my second post Christmas game. The French have secured the Chateau and are due reinforcements but so are the British and their allies. Will the chateau change hands again?

Turn 10 and the Mamelukes arrive (their very first outing).      

French 1st Hussars deploy on the following turn

as do a second KGL battery

Turn 12 and the remaining combatants deploy including French 1st Line

Over on the right: Prussian 1st Koningin Dragoons, British 11th and 23rd Light Dragoons, battery and 51st Line appear. 

The 1st Line approach the Chateau while in the rear the Prussians can be seen leading the cavalry Brigade to counter the threat from the Mamelukes and 1st Hussars   

The French battery has positioned itself behind the hedge on the slope in front of the chateau giving a good field of fire. 

51st Line moving along the line of the road to take on the Saxons

The Saxons look confident especially as they have had some recent recruits to their ranks.

French guns open fire on the allied cavalry and the newly arrived KGL battery

KGL have taken a hit but open up on the troops occupying the Chateau (they have a succession of misses!). 23rd LD have had a go at the Hussars and Mamelukes but have been recalled to lick their wounds 

51st and Saxons start to square up

The Saxons are safe in the knowledge that another French battery is moving up in support

The Hussars and Mamelukes have both been weakened in their action against the combined allied dragoons force 

The Mamelukes rally and have another attack on the Prussians

In the foreground the 23rd LD have yet to rally. The Prussians force the Mamelukes back while 1st Hussars take on the 11th LD who are beaten and broken.  

51st start to exchange volleys with the Saxons with no impact on either side

With the 28th unable to progress due to the cavalry action around them, much will depend on 51st holding up.

 

28th look on helplessly as 1st Hussars overwhelm the KGL battery to their right
 

At this stage all cavalry are weakened and blown so the 28th have an opportunity to advance at last.

But things are not looking too good for 51st who take casualties and are staggered

Meanwhile the Prussians have rallied and attack 1st Line who successfully form a hasty square and fight them off. The Prussians leave the field.  

The poor old 28th don't get very far before they too form a hasty square. The Hussars share the same fate as the Prussians.

Turn 22 and the Saxons charge the 51st who break. On the far side the 23rd LD have also come off second against the 1st Line. The second KGL battery has been destroyed by counter battery fire. Now heavily outnumbered it's all over for the Brits and their allies. 

The end of another fairly rapid game. The throwing of dice at each turn to decide deployments worked for me and I'll do that again but modify to a 6 sided dice for these smaller scenarios (otherwise it is possible to have too many units deploying late in the game).  

Next posts will feature a couple of epic Waterloo inspired games I've just conpleted with lots of Hinton Hunt figures on display.