"Beaune-la-Rolande, Franco-Prussian War - AAR and scenario" Topic
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| ChrisBBB | 01 Dec 2015 6:33 a.m. PST |
Beaune-la-Rolande is a classic contest of quantity against quality. The German defenders are outnumbered 4-to-1 initially, which improves to 2-to-1 when their reinforcements arrive at halftime. This gave us an excellent game last night. Brief AAR is on my blog:
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Bloody Big BATTLES!
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| KTravlos | 01 Dec 2015 7:26 a.m. PST |
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| vtsaogames | 01 Dec 2015 7:40 a.m. PST |
Tasty. Perhaps in the New Year… |
| mashrewba | 01 Dec 2015 10:41 a.m. PST |
Excellent -the Republican part is much more fun!!! |
| Henry Martini | 02 Dec 2015 2:04 p.m. PST |
Yes, there's a touch of the colonial about it. |
| ChrisBBB | 02 Dec 2015 2:48 p.m. PST |
By a touch of the colonial, do you mean because it has the Foreign Legion, spahis, and chasseurs d'Afrique? Chris |
| Royal Marine | 02 Dec 2015 3:05 p.m. PST |
So when did you wear NBCD kit? Mine still tastes of CS gas ;-) |
| ChrisBBB | 02 Dec 2015 3:36 p.m. PST |
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| Henry Martini | 03 Dec 2015 5:42 p.m. PST |
Its asymmetrical character. |
| ChrisBBB | 04 Dec 2015 5:52 a.m. PST |
Yes, it's certainly asymmetrical, and that's an important part of its appeal. That's true of a lot of the 1850-1900 wars. You've got rapid technological developments, weapons evolving rapidly, and tactics and doctrine struggling to keep up. So you get armies of very different character facing each other in very asymmetrical battles, and as wargamers we have the challenge of finding the best way to use a given army against a given opponent. I know I've been caught out using the tactics of the 'last war' – though in a sense it was the 'next war', since I'd been doing lots of Franco-Prussian games and found that my 1870 tactics didn't transfer well to fighting Sikh Wars in the 1840s … Chris
Bloody Big BATTLES!
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| ChrisBBB | 05 Dec 2015 3:49 a.m. PST |
The Beaune-la-Rolande scenario is now posted in the BBB group files, and also in Flickr. You can find it via the BBB Blog:
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