Waterloo - Another go at D'Erlon's attack. (Part 1)

 After my first restaging in January I quickly decided to do it all over again! I still had a lot of victorious allied troops on the table and it seemed a shame to put them back in their cabinets so soon. This time I wanted to better represent the strength of the French line battalions. I could just about field the number required using the remainder of my French line collection plus a couple of stand ins.   

To speed up the game I put all of the now augmented French Line battalions on the table from the start. This stretched their frontage beyond the grand battery which was already deployed. 

  

. Young Guard tirailleurs in the foreground were rebadged as line. 

En avant!

The starting positions viewed from the French lines

Quiot's columns starts to engage with the KGL in the La Haye Sainte orchard

At the top of the picture Marcognet's men are being staggered by artillery fire

Alten's KGL represented again by British figures

The disruption to Marcognet's columns from gun fire is evident to the right

The Dutch Belgians holding firm at the moment

Alten's Division have moved into line along the ridge in anticipation of an infantry assault

The French columns fast approaching the allied line. Quiot's troops are behind the rest due to manouvering around La Haye Sainte  

 

Surely the French Columns must succeed this time!

But this is what faces them

Melees begin across the line

The effects of allied artillery can be seen by lack of cohesion of the columns on the left and right of the picture. The Dutch Belgians are the first to meet their foes.

See how they get on in the next post.