I had a great day of gaming today, three games, starting at about noon and ending at about 2300.
The middle one was the best. We did Balaclava (sort of) with Black Powder.
The British order of battle was almost complete, only missing three units of cavalry. However the Russians had only about a third of the cavalry they should have had and about half the infantry.
Despite that, or maybe because of it, the game was great.
The British advanced with the their highlanders and their heavy cav on the right, their light cav in the center and the turks held the left along with some French that were coming up.
The Russians had a hard time getting their acts together at first and the guns remained a distant threat for most of the game while an infantry brigade decided that they would have a better view of the battle from the top of one of the numerous ridges than they would have in the valleys. Especially with all the fighting going on kicking up so much dust.
The British cavalry saw things more the way the Russian generals did and got mixed up with those Russians anyway.
The cavalry battle on the right between the British heavy brigade and the Russian cossacks was indecisive with both sides being thrown back, their brigades broken, a unit of Russian infantry was destroyed in the scrapping.
The light brigade in the center were ordered to charge some Russian guns still limbered and coming down the valley.
They apparently consulted their manual of stupid things to do, found this among the lists and noped the 
out. The die roll for their command came up box cars and they rolled a 1 on the Blunder Table moving them further away from the valley of death than they had even started.
That left the Turkish redoubt and guns open for the Russian cavalry and they used their chance.
They charged repeatedly into the Turkish guns and while being repulsed twice, were able to take the fight to the guns and knock them out.
The French, meanwhile, had hooked around the left flank and drove off the Russian infantry battalion on the left most ridge leaving the Russian guns vulnerable to an assault.
The highlanders kept up a steady fire on the right crippling the Russians unit after unit.
The Russian commander determined enough was enough and rolled all available troops up to the highlanders. In one bust of gunsmoke they were gone.
And so it ended. The Russians took the redoubt, the guns and the field.
