Game 2
Stanislav27 – French - 7 Victory Banners
Scipio1zama - Allies - 3 Victory Banners
The French started on their left and used the LT to take 3 blocks from a Spanish LN while the Allies sought to move the Spaniards back while bringing the British onto the hills. The French continued to probe that flank, but the Allies short supplied a LN w/leader back to the French baseline. The French then shifted to their left and launched an assault that eventually took out the British RL and LT.
Considerable fighting took place on the hill but to minimal effect at first, as both armies suffered from cold dice for a time. The Allies used a Capable Tactician card to retrieve Short Supply and then used it again on the French. But the British troops couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn – 4 or 5-dice fusillades against French LN repeatedly resulted in no hits, or just one hit. On one occasion, my 6-dice roll complete whiff prompted my opponent to comment, “That has to be the worst roll of the game,” an assessment with which I sadly had to agree. Ah, well, we have all been there. (By contrast to my Brits, my two still active Spanish LN seemed able to get at least one hit whenever they fired, and eventually killed one of the French LN.)
The French came to bat with a Leadership Card and on his right used his GR to melee and get 4 Inf hits on 6 dice to eliminate my full-strength British LN (who had foolishly come out of hiding the previous turn and whiffed HIS roll.) My left flank was now completely denuded. With that same card on the hill, however, the French missed against my 1-block GG.
After more hill fighting, I killed a French GR, and it stood 3-2. But then Stan Probed the Center and eliminated a British LN and the leader Dilkes AND a GG unit all in one turn! My forced March got me one more of his LN units, taken out by a Spanish LN, but then his Left Flank attack got 2 hits on my brave Spaniards and the kill for the seventh banner. (At game’s end, after all that fighting, neither of us owned the hill.) A well-deserved, hard-fought victory for the French.
Both my opponent and I forgot to start log files until we were about 2/3 of the way through it. I'll attempt to attach it to another file, but I am having no luck so far. I click on "attach files", find the vlog file on my computer, double click on it, but it doesn't attach - ?
