Round 2

C&C Napoleonics Open 2026
Round 2
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Round 2

Something I stumbled into for Round 1 was a 2nd chance match when we have an odd number of players.

First player to lose both matches this round get a 2nd chance versus gotigerssc
rather than just a BYE.

Hi Commtom:

Please contact me via email at dmugmon@gmail.com regarding Round 2.  I'm having issues sending PMs here.

Thank you!

-David (kfan)

Game 1

Mark McG (Allies) 9 banners

Craterus (French) 6 banners

Played this match with v5 of the Module, which is relevent to the tale.
Things started well for the Prussians, and Bleddin fell early to Prussian hands and stayed garrisoned for the game. Destroying 2 French infantry, capturing a town was an excellent start, and the French response of LGM was handled. The Prussians forced back the French grenadiers and destroyed them, wrote down the French cavalry , destroying one and a leader and were pushing through the woods towards the weakened French right. Prussian losses were an LC and leader (Horn). Score stood at 7-2, after 2 hours of play which for my view seemed to involve a lot of machine time.. delay between selecting units for orders, targets, calculating attack dice. By this stage I had already forced one end of turn.

For reasons unknown, we fell into a situation where drawing a Tactician card immediately ended the French turn, and Allies couldn't end turn, nor force end turn, and we couldn't roll back individual actions, it was a group of 5-6 actions as a lump. Spent 55 minutes struggling with this issue, and eventually I did a fiddle that reloaded the game, replayed the logfile to the relevant point, which allowed me to fake a turn end and get the game somewhat back on track. However, David couldn't completely sync with the game, so I had to Force end every French turn from this point on.

French turn conducted, with the squaring needed complete, it was Prussian turn. Having now sat for 3 hours, my patience wore thin, and I conducted a Bayonet Charge hoping to end the match. I needed 2 banners, took one, but then failed for another hour to get the 9th banner, despite numerous attempts. In the meantime I lost all 4 units that charged, and in the end it was the Prussian cavalry taking down a French counterpart that saved the day.

Took us 4 hours to complete, of which I estimate 2 hours was waiting for, or fighting, the module. Will use 4.2.9 next time.
  

Game 1

Gileforn (Allies) 9 banners

Pdowd (French) 1 banner

That was a nice game with some Prussian luck. Good push on their left made half a game. A lot of battles in the wood helped also to stop French army. Two shor supplies have taken off French arty from the game.

Game 2

Pdowd (Allies) 6 banners

Gileforn (French) 9 banners

That was a really nice battle with a lot of attacks and honor for both sides. French rushed on their right to disable Prussian flank. The most part of the French cavalry and grenadiers were destroyed, but also they helped to block Prussians their. Artillery press by Prussian were really hard and French need to risk to get their banners.

Thanks to the both game and good luck next rounds.
    

M505 - Wartenburg - 3 October 1813

Mike Stanley (aka scipio1zama) v Nathan Wagner (wagnat)
We split our match.  Each side winning as the Prussians 9 VPs to 5vPs.  Here is the report for second game.  Mike said he will report Game 1

Game 2 results

wagnat (Allies) 9 banners

scipio1zama (French) 5 banners

Thanks for both the games.

Round 2

Match 2

Craterus,  Allies,  9 banners
Mark McG,  French,  4 banners

The battle started with both armies performing several shy movements and skirmishes all along the line. Seemed that both wanted to take the right position before the storm. This started when french launched their first serious attack in the center, with a bayonet charge. The results weren't as good as they could have been due to a bad dices. After some rounds, the prussians managed to stop the french impuls on the center and counterattacked successfully. Meanwhile, the french right sent their cavalry to destroy prussian artillery, and they nearly achieved their goal, but once more they were stopped by prussian forces and the dice. At that phase of the battle, the lesser number of units began to take its toll to the french army, which was finally overcome by the prussians.

Thanks Mark for the two games !!

 
 

Tucko,
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Jim

Game 1

gdnuke (Allies) 6 banners
charlescab (French) 9 banners

 

Game 2

charlescab (Allies) 5 banners
gdnuke (French) 9 banners

 

A couple tough games for the Prussians. Despite a big advantage in artillery and overall numbers, not to mention an extra card in their hand, neither Charles nor I could crack the code of how to win with the Prussians. The quality of the French troops and the good defensive terrain against a rather mixed quality Prussian force meant that in our games the best Prussian units were severely handled as they approached the town hexes. In game 1 my Prussians were able to take and hold the single town hex on the French right, but Charles' French infantry and artillery dominated the French left and wiped out the Prussians there for the win. In game 2 a swirling battle raged around the 2 hex town with Charles' Reserve infantry there dominating in fight after fight after his Line infantry was destroyed early. On the French right, however, a timely attack by the French cavalry was decisive, sweeping the Austrian cavalry and then the artillery off the field for another French win. Two very different games with almost exactly the same results.  Maybe the Prussians need to be very patient and hold off attacking until their artillery weakens the French. We will leave that to others to solve! 

Game 1

Joe Gonzo(Allies) 4 banners

RiverWanderer (French) 9 banners

French were wary of the Prussian guns and headed for cover as fast as they could. The Prussians advanced and got mauled more than they deserved, mainly due to a long run of bad luck in dice rolls, failing to reduce French defences.

Eventually, a mixture of unerring French aim and constant attrition took its toll on Blücher's men who did well to keep two objective banners amongst their tally before the end came.

Game two to follow.

Two log files, as we had an undo glitch, which could only be corrected by replaying the first log file.