Posting on behalf of Mike Stanley
Mike Stanley – French – 11 banners (winner)
Ben Turner – Allies (Prussians) – 9 banners
The French Took Command on the left flank, fired on the MI in La-Haye, and used the LC to take Wagnelee. The Prussians moved Forward, and the French Counter-Attacked, advancing on La-Haye, forcing the MI out and taking the town, with the half-formed idea of trying to gain a majority of the town, etc. hexes. However, both of us forgot about the garrison rule for much of the game, and this affected our approach to the conflict.
The next French turn was a Bayonet Charge. Pecheux on the right attacked the church, but Prussian Iron Will kept the RI in place. On the left, the attack was highly successful, reducing Tippelskirch’s LN to one block, eliminating a previously weakened MI, and reducing another MI to 2 blocks, although a double dose of Prussian Iron Will allowed it to remain in place.
Prussian Elan fired up an LC, Art, LN, and the RI in the church. Gerard’s LN went into square and bounced the Prussian LC., but was obliterated by the artillery attack, although Gerard escaped and joined the Young Guard. Some damage to the French occurred in the center and on the right, although the latter was mitigated by Battlefield Smoke.
A French Assault left + Cavalry Forward Tac allowed me to surround his LC, but it took all 3 of my units to take it out, and I missed the leader Tippelskirch.
A Prussian Attack Left saw 3 units attack the French LT & Pecheux – no hits, but each attack rolled a flag, all of which were ignored. The final attack was a melee, and the French BB killed a block and forced the Prussian RI to retreat out of the church 2 hexes to the board edge. AT THIS MOMENT I had killed 3 Prussians and he had killed 1 French, plus he still had 2 Banners from controlling town hexes. But things got murky here as we had forgotten the rule allowing us to leave garrisons.
The rest of the battle, turns 7 – 13, saw the French eliminate one Prussian unit each and every turn (except in turn 9 – two Prussians were eliminated.) Meanwhile the Prussians, in their turns 7-12, averaged eliminating 1 French unit every turn.
So my French turn 13 used Leadership and had the leader and LT in the church advance on the 1-block Prussian RI on the back rank and eliminates it for the 11th and winning banner. We determined that in the end the Prussians had in fact earned the 2 banners for the town objective majority to go with the 7 unit kills. It was close right up until the end. This was a really fun game with a worthy opponent."
