"Billiardsburg: A MAURICE AAR in 28mm." Topic

Hi all
I've just posted a MAURICE AAR on my BLOG:
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King Fredrick sat bolt upright in his bed.
"Mien Gott!!! Vat is zat infernal racket? Vill ve get no peace"?
"Majesty, it appears ze Saxons have deployed a new vepon. Zey intend to drive us all mad vit zee constant vailing of zee band on zee hill. Ve vill get no rest tonight".

The Old Fritz looked towards the west at the high ground outside the town of Billiardsburg where his army was garrisoned for the night.

"Tomorrow I vill be shoving drums and horns vere der sun vont shine"!

Opposing Plans:
Michael plan seemed to to me to be one that consisted on simply sitting on the objective, (a Large hill where the offending Band merrily played something resembling the screams of a cat and dog both being castrated simultaneously by a near blind butcher with a blunt butter knife).
Just to deter me he massed his guns (all four of them) and a Regiment of Infantry on the hill. He split his cavalry across the left and right flanks. Three regiments were positing on his left flank, and one was placed on his right. The bulk of his infantry, including his sole ‘Elite' Grenadiers were deployed in two lines to his right of the objective. On his left of the hill was another regiment of musketeers and the three Regiments of Horse.

I deployed as follows from my left to right:
The sole Irregular infantry, the Hessian Jagers were positioned with the large wood directly to their front. Next I massed five regiments of foot in two lines of three regiments up front and two in support. In the lead I had my three ‘Elite' Regiments, (Grenadiers and Fusiliers) with two trained regiments (Musketeers) in support. Next in line and to the right of the town were another two regiments of Musketeers and then all my Horse Regiments, consisting of two Hussar Regiments and one Dragoon Regiment. Finally I deployed my two guns.
My plan was to advance with my six infantry regiments supported by the Jagers and attempt to blow a hole in the Saxon line by superior firepower. I was relying on a combination of superior ‘Espirit de Corps' (my elites V his trained) and ‘Lethal Volleys' to win the day for me.

COMMENTS WELCOMED.
trailape.blogspot.com.au

Fantastic AAR – a good looking game. Nice Guns!

Looking fantastic!

Nic Eureka Miniatures

Hi Sparker.
The Saxon Artillery are EUREKA MINIATURES cannons and Gunners.
The Prussian Guns and Gunners are FRONT RANK.
The Saxon flags apparently were all hand painted! The Prussian Flags are material ones from MAVERICK MODELS.
Cheers

Trailape,

Everything looks outstanding!

By the way, what Officer figure did you use on the stand of the Saxon musicians?

v/r

Joe

Hi
He is part of a two figure set available from EUREKA MINIATURES.
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He's actually meant to be Frederick the Great.
The Saxons are from Michael's collection.
Cheers

Trailape,

Thank you!

v/r

Joe

Excellent report and figures. Nice use of smoke! What size bases and BW did you use? 40 x 40? 50 x 50?

Hi cae5ar
My Prussians are based on 40mm square bases with 4 figs to a base for Infantry. My Cavalry and Artillery are on 40mm wide by 60mm deep bases, with a single Cannon or two mounted figs. The Gunners are single based, so I simply remove a figure if 'Disrupted'.
Michael's Saxons were based on 60mm wide bases.
Not sure on depth.
So my units of 4 bases were 160mm wide and Michaels units were 180mm wide using 3 bases.
Close enough.