Full britsh armyincluding five units of infantry, five wound markers, two cavalry units (one light the other heavy), two sharpshooter bases, a britshbattery of five guns and a rocket launcher and three generals.
Tuesday, 28 January 2014
Vitoria 1813
Recreation of the battle fought at Vitoria in 1813, wich saw the french thrown out of Spain.
The french have the center, with their positions protected by the Zadorra river, the british atack from two directions, from the left come the divisions of general Graham, and from the front, the combined force of Wellington and Picton.
After some complaints from the french players due to them being alwas in numerical inferiority because the real forces in the battle it was decided that from now on the two sides will have the same strenght, sacrificing historical accuracy for more playability.
The british center
Graham's force, scots greys in the right
Vision of the french positions
First blood goes to one of Graham's divisions wich suffers two wounds under the french barrage
Scots greys and infantry move to cross the Zadorra in the french right
the british advance their guns and start firing
Graham's division continues to suffer without moving an inch
and is finally destroyed
But the british start to inflict damage upon the infantry across the river
The british light dragoons charge crossing the Zadorra, but are met by french squares
The scots greys also charge
and a division moves in support of the light dragoons
the french cannons inflict a wound in one of the british batteries
The scots greys storm across the bridge breaking it's cheavuxleger defenders and capturing their colour!
the squares throw back the light dragoons
but the french battery is silenced by concentrated british fire
wich also causes a wound in the square
the scots are loose in the french rearguard and blocking the scape route to France
but the imperial dragoons are coming to save the day
another charge against the squares
the french divisions surround the scots
a french division keeps ready in line behind the squares
another unsurprising repulse
a british division is crossing the Zadorra to help the scots but it's already too late
meanwhile, the scottish division has started to move in the british far right
helped by the artillery who softens their target
the scots are routed and the chevauxleger colors recaptured
the scots move uphill under a storm of bullets
british infantry charge and break the squares
the artillery continues to pound the french in the hill
in the rearguard, the british charge against french divisions
while the infantry in the center fights at bayonet point
more british crossing to reinforce their attack at the center
the british in the rearguard are countercharged by the french dragoons
the light draggons charge in suport of their infantry
and the scots continue climbing
the last british forces in the rearguard are destroyed and lose their colours
the dices doing weird things upon the grass board
the hand to hand in the center continues, with the valiant french destroying the light draggons
the british move a battery across the river comitting the remnants of their force now that the attack in the rear has failed
hand to hand in the hill
a battery is destroyed by musket fire
and the british division in hte center finally routs under too much pressure
the panic generalises as the scots also abandon their attak on the hill
the last division, led by Wellington himself attacks stubbornly the center, but is flanked by frenchmen that have came out of the village
the forces in the french rear are moving rapidly towards the vanguard carrying their wounded generals with them
Wellington leads heroicly, and the french central division is routed
but at the cost of himself being wounded
the french dragoons finally come within sabre's reach and charge the flank of the division
the last british infantry unit collapses under the assault of two full french divisions losings their colours and Wellinton, who is captured by the french
the remaining british battery defends itself against the french horsemen
who are repulsed against all probablities
and finally heroically routed by the british crews!
but their fate is sealed when a fresh division charges their flank
and finally destroys the last british force on the field
Britsh losses, thy name'll be remembered!