"Battle of Reichenberg" Topic

Although the game is tomorrow, I'm already set up (I'm so organised!).

The historical battle was in 1757. The Austrians, under Konigsegg, were tasked with slowing down Bevern's Prussians.
The Austrians, although out numbered, had good positions, utilising villages & redoubts along their line.

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The Prussians will be placed on the table by my opponents, tomorrow, after they view the Austrian positions.

What will make this battle different is that historically a number of Austrian line battalions retreated seemingly for no purpose.

To simulate this, I will throw percentage dice every turn, and if/when a score of 90% or more is made, a brigade of 4 battalions will be removed from the table; creating a rather large hole.

My opponents don't know this or the significance of my dice rolling each game turn. I'm hoping it makes them nervous.

Hopefully more photos etc tomorrow if I remember to take them.

Your opponents might well 'know' now.

No. They don't read tmp.

This looks great! Please take pics from tomorrow! I love seeing your games! They always look exceptionally good!

Thanks,

John

Pandours in the wood:

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The dreaded wolf pits:

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The not-so-dreaded Reichsarmee allies:

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Defending the village of Franzendorf:

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Nice to see this battle report. I re-fought this one several times, even with custom hills.

This looks really impressive!

Grelber

Nicely done!

Game over. The Austrians were doing well until in Game Turn #4, a brigade retreated from Franzdorff, leaving an ufillable gap.
Let it be said, they fought gallantly.

Set-up- Prussians:

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The Prussians first attacked the Croats defending the wooded hills, on the Austrian flank.

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Then advanced against the village of Rosenthal:

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The redoubts faced a series of attacks:

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First one was captured:

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Then the village of Franzdorff occupied.

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Then another redoubt fell:

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The Austrians tried to plug the gaps with cavalry:

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But eventually faced the inevitable & began to retreat:

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It was a lovely way to spend a Sunday autumn in Brisbane.

donald

I may have missed it and if so I apologize, but what rule set did you use?

And thanks for all the great photos and play by play!

John

John, there are many excellent SYW rule sets out there.

We wrote our own : 'A Glorious War'. They're quite simple but with some fun mechanisms and seem to encourage historical tactics.

Self-praise etc but I really like our rules.

Really nice game – thanks for sharing!

Beautiful set-up and a nice AAR, I was wondering what those perfectly rectangular black pits were.

I have been reading the Kronoskaf AARs for the SYW and what you described seems to be the case more often than you may think. The Austrians (French too) would be on the verge of winning the engagement, and then suddenly, they would just give up and leave (as a Minnesota Vikings fan I am quite familair with THAT).

SYW for the gold! Lovely-looking game.

Do you distribute copies of your rules if people ask sweetly?

Sir, if you supplied an email address, I would happily send you a copy.

v.S/2: my perfectly delightful friends urged me not to take away my brigade after the dice trap sprang & I explained my strange behaviour.

I insisted and we had, in consequence, a perfectly wonderful mad scramble instead of some pedestrian grinding…..& historically valid, too.

If wargaming (& football) was utterly predictable, who'd be interested?

I really love this! Such a great looking game! Sadly, my 6mm Prussian and Austrians are much closer to being ready for a game than my 1/72 figs.

If you are so inclined, I'd love to get a copy of your rules. johnleahy55atyahoodotcom.

Thank you!

John

Pretty please. ;-)
I would love to peruse your rules.
cavcmdr at gmail dot com

I do look forward to your posts. My terrain cannot compete but I love my old 15mm SYW troops. The Brits hail from the 1980's

Thank you.

tybalthwathotmaildotcom kind person. My Austrians got thumped yesterday, though they won the previous ding-dong. My wife has a disturbing habit of learning from her mistakes.

Came along late to this post, but a very nice setup and great looking minis. Are these Mindens? Thank you for the post.

ochoin: May I impose upon you for a copy of the rules also?
baltojake@gmail.com

Thank you!

John

No, they're mostly 1/72 plastic. Quite a few conversions, as you can see.

I think I've sent the rules to everyone who asked ("be careful what you wish for…."). I got a pretty decent set in return from one petitioner.

ochoin: This is very kind of you. Thank you very much for the rules!

John