Last Saturday we convened at Tony’s for a re-fight of the Battle of Neumarkt using his C&CN variant Ramekin rules. Tony has already posted on the game
here so I'll just get straight to my own photos that hopefully captured the flavour of the day.
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The Bavarians deployed in and around the town. These are all figures from Tony's collection and very smart they look too. |
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Most of the Austrians were
S-Range Minifigs from Goya's
collection. They were backed
up with a few Hinton Hunt units
from Nigel and myself.
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A look at the Bavarians from the Austrian perspective. |
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It was quite a crush trying to fit in the French reserves as they poured over the bridge behind the town. |
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The French infantry were all from Tony's collection. |
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I love that church model! |
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Bessieres arrives to take personal control of the field. The figure is the Hinton Hunt one from my own collection. I bought this figure from Tony via eBay many years ago (long before I first met him) so it was nice to be able to bring him to visit his old home - the paint-work is Tony's. |
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A general view along the entire field, despite the number of units in play there is still a lot of empty space on the 10' x 5' table. |
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The Bavarians were soon well
supported by French infantry.
The situation at the end of
play from the Franco-Bavarian side
of the table. In
the end weight of numbers told and the
Austrians had a creditable
win.
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This was the biggest game we have tried so far (we had over 20 Austrian infantry units) and I think we learnt a bit in the process about how to handle such large forces, Tony touches on the issues around the deployment of reserves in his blog-post.
Thanks to Tony for all his efforts in designing the scenario and preparing the terrain, it was another enjoyable game played in great company.