"Battle of Raevsky - battle report" Topic

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Click on the picture and a brief description is below each photo. The descriptions serve as the Battle Report.

Special Rules and the Order of Battle for the Battle of Raevsky.

Battle of Raevsky
• Fictional Battle
• 15mm Napoleonic figures
• 8'x 6' Table
• Rules: General de Brigade, Deluxe Edition
Special Rules:
• Turn Initiative Phase: for the Allied forces to win the Turn Initiative, the Allies must exceed the French 2D6 roll by (3) three. (This reflects the superiority of the French leadership and Napoleon being on the field.)
• Russians deploy their forces first on the North side of the table. The French then deploy their forces on the South side of the table but cannot be closer than 70 cm to the Russians or from the West edge of the table.
• Austrians will arrive on the table from either the West edge of the table or the North edge of the table. A 1D6 roll of 1,2, or 3, the Austrian arrive on the West edge of the table on the three foot half closest to the North edge of the table. A 1D6 roll of 4, 5, 6, the Austrians arrive on the North edge of the table on the four foot half closest to the West edge of the table.
• Austrians will arrive on the table on Turn 5 with a 1D6 roll of 5 or 6.
• Austrians will arrive on the table on Turn 6 with a 1D6 roll of 3, 4, 5, or 6.
• Austrians will arrive on the table on Turn 7 or subsequent turns with a 1D6 roll of 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6.

French

C inC: Napoleon – Excellent +1
ADC: Marshal Ney – Excellent

Guard Brigade:
GdB: General Friant – Average
• Old Guard Grenadiers – Guard, 40 figs
• Middle Guard Chasseurs – Elite, 40 figs
• Young Guard Tiralleurs – Veteran, 32 figs

1st Division
GdD: Marshal Soult – Excellent
ADC: General Gerard – Average

GdB: General D'Erlon – Average
• 7 Light – Veteran, 36 figs
• 34 Line – Line, 36 figs
• 45 Line – Line, 36 figs
• 57 Line – Line, 36 figs

GdB: General Vandamme – Average
• 15 Light – Veteran, 36 figs
• 61 Line – Line, 36 figs
• 72 Line – Line, 36 figs
• 88 Line – Line, 36 figs

2nd Division
GdD: Marshal Oudinot – Average
ADC: General Reille – Average

GdB: General Lobau – Average
• 26 Light – Veteran, 36 figs
• 93 Line – Line, 36 figs
• 2 Swiss – Veteran, 40 figs
• 2 Italian Line – 2nd Line, 36 figs

GdB: General Poniatowski – Average
• 5 Bavarian Light – Line, 30 figs
• 9 Bavarian Line – Line, 36 figs
• 6 Polish Line – Line, 36 figs
• Vistula Legion – Line, 36 figs

Cavalry Division
GdD: General Nansouty – Average
ADC: General Marbot – Poor

GdB: General Saint-Germain – Average
• 7 Cuirassiers – Line, 32 figs
• 2 Dragoons – Line, 24 figs
• 1 Bavarian Dragoons – Line, 24 figs
• 4-pound Horse Btry – Veteran, 3 gun models, 12 figs

GdB: General Lasalle – Excellent
• 9 Hussars – Line, 30 figs
• 4 Chasseurs – Line, 24 figs
• Polish Lancers – Veteran, 24 figs

Artillery Brigade
GdB: General Drouout – Average
• 12-pound Guard Foot Btry – Elite, 3 gun models, 12 figs
• 8-pound Foot Btry – Line, 4 gun models, 16 figs
• 6-pound Bavarian Foot Btry – Line, 3 gun models, 12 figs

Russians

CinC: General Bennigsen – Average
ADC: General Tormasov – Poor

Infantry

GdB: General Lavrov – Average
• Pavlov Grenadiers – Elite, 40 figs
• Kiev Grenadiers – Veteran, 32 figs
• Moscow Grenadiers – Veteran, 32 figs

GdB: General Doctorov – Average
• 19 Jagers – Line, 32 figs
• Alexopol Musketeers – Line, 32 figs
• Chernigov Musketeers – Line, 32 figs
• Kursk Musketeers – Line, 32 figs
• Siberian Militia – Conscript, 32 figs

GdB: General Raevsky – Excellent
• 21 Jagers – Line, 32 figs
• Dnieper Musketeers – Line, 32 figs
• Sveaborg Musketeers – Line, 32 figs
• Tarnopol Musketeers – Line, 32 figs

GdB: General Potemkin – Poor
• 36 Jagers – Line, 32 figs
• Smolensk Musketeers – Line, 32 figs
• Vladimir Musketeers – Line, 32 figs
• Ural Militia – Conscript, 32 figs

Cavalry Brigade
GdB: General Baggovut – Average
• Starodub Cuirassiers – Line, 24 figs
• Kharkov Dragoons – Line, 30 figs
• Zhirov Cossacks – Line, 24 figs

Artillery Brigade
GdB: General Ermolov – Average
• 12-Pound Foot Btry – Line-2nd Class, 5 gun models, 20 figs
• 6-Pound Horse Btry – Line-2nd Class, 4 gun models, 16 figs

Austrians

CinC: General Bianchi – Average
ADC: General Kienmeyer – Average

Infantry

GdB: General Merveldt – Average
• 10 Grenadiers – Elite, 36 figs
• Tyrol Jagers – Veteran, 36 figs
• 3 Fusiliers – Line, 36 figs
• 15 Fusiliers – Line, 48 figs
• 24 Fusiliers – Line, 48 figs

GdB: General Jellacic – Average
• 34 Grenadiers – Elite, 36 figs
• 5 Grenz – Line, 42 figs
• 37 Fusiliers – Line, 48 figs
• 41 Fusiliers – Line, 48 figs
• Styrian Landwehr – Conscript, 36 figs

Cavalry Brigade

GdB: General Liechtenstein – Average
• 1 Dragoons – Line, 30 figs
• 5 Hussars (A) – Line, 18 figs
• 5 Hussars (B) – Line, 18 figs

Artillery Brigade

GdB: General Reisner – Average
• 6-pound Foot Btry #1 – Line, 3 gun models, 12 figs
• 6-pound Foot Btry #2 – Line, 3 gun models, 12 figs

Hope you enjoy.

God bless,
John T.

John,
Great looking game, and after viewing the images, I understand why you didn't include them in the post.

It must of taken you longer to put this all together, than play the game!!

John

John,
Great figures and a great game. I'm hoping to do something
similar with 6mm. What manufacturer of figures did you use?

Bob

John,

Thanks. Took me 4 days to fight the battle. About 2 days to put this together.

Bob,

Most of the figs are 2nd generation MiniFigs. The are some 3rd gen Minifigs (i.e. General Raevsky's Brigade), Battle Honors, and AB generals.

God bless,
John T.

Impresive AAR thanks John. Not suprised it took you so long to play out!

Absolutely love seeing all the Minifigs on the table, by far the best 15's ever made. Great looking game!

Great game John!

Truely great stuff!

Hi John,
quiet day at the office so re-read this report! Excellent stuff indeed. Would you mind if I pinch the orbat and scenario ideas for one of our club games?
Maybe we'll see another report from you sometime?
Be good out there,
Jeremy

Hi John,

When ever I see you figures I start to salivate! You KNOW I want too buy them all, when you get tired of them! When you switched to GdB, did you change your stand size, or did you keep the F&S dimensions?

I have two other questions for you.

I know that Minifig 2nd gen did not sell Austrian Landwehr, so who did you get them from?

From whom did you you get your flags?

Reggie

Hi Reggie,

Yes, when I went from Fire & Steel to General de Brigade, I did rebase most of my infantry units. Some, like my British and Russians, I did not. It all depended. I found out that my F&S basing was actually about twice the width they should have been. Had I based my F&S units correctly, I would not have had to rebase for GdB. The first two Austrian Landwehr photos below are from my previous six (6) figure basing in single rank per stand. The third photo is after rebasing in double rank per six (6) figure stand.

My Austrian Landwehr units are 2nd Gen Minifigs. One day I was going through my box of "extra" figures and found a bunch of Austrian Jagers and some other figures I can't remember where they came from other than they are 2nd Gen Minifigs. The Jagers have the left side of the broad brimmed hats turned up, have back packs, and they have bayonets. The unknown others, have the right side of their hats turned up, rolled great coats over the shoulder, and no bayonets. I found enough 'extras' to put together a Landwehr unit. I painted them all with the same tunic, but different colored 'civilian' pants.

Styrian Landwehr.

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Styrian Landwehr.

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Styrian Landwehr in the right foreground about to go into melee.
The Styrian Landwehr have not yet been in a battle where they didn't rout except the Battle of Raevsky. Fortunately in this battle, there were never engaged.

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Some of my flags are hand painted;
some printed from here: link
some printed from here: link

I enjoy all my figures; especially my 2nd Gen Minifigs. Most of the 2nd Gen Minifigs I've had for many years and they are like 'dear old friends' to me.

Thanks for your always kind words my friend!

God bless,
John T.

Hi Jeremy,

I would be most flattered if you used any of what I've presented here! Certainly, you may use the orbit or anything else you choose!

Thank you!

God bless,
John T.

Hi John,

Thanks for the close-up photos of the Styrian Landwehr, I see them better now. Yes, I see the Austrian Jaegers. The "unknown other" looks like the Minifigs 2nd gen Brunswick Jaegers, in their campaign uniforms. Thanks also for the links.

I was talking to another wargaming friend, who also plays GdB. He gave me a great scenario for a Napoleonic battle.

He set the game up to give the French player several challenges. Basically, the French player started with one French division deployed, with another division following the first division. About 14,000 troops—not models). There is a small Prussian force (maybe 4,000 troops) occupying a blocking position. The Russians (two divisions—about 14,000 troops—not models) will be coming onto the table chasing the French. There is also a "Flying Division" consisting of Cossacks and Russian cavalry that will come onto the board sometime after turn 5 with a roll of 25 or less using percentage die (on turn 6, my friend rolled an 18 so the Flying Division would come on the table on the next turn. I rolled a dice to determine where they would come in. My friend rolled a 6 which meant that the Flying Division would come in behind the Prussians—a 1 would have meant on the left side of the just in front of the Prussians, 2 was on the left side at the rode, 3 – behind the Russians at the end of the table, 4 – on the right side of the table at the road, 5 – on the right of the table just in front of the Prussians.

The battle will continue next week.

I thought you might be interested in that idea.

Thanks again for all the info, and keep sending those pics.

Reggie