As requested by my father we played Leipzig with him leading the allies and the french. I'll divide the report in the two separate theatres, the north and the south. The villages are, clockwise and starting north of the bridges: Möckern, Schönefeld, Stötteritz, Probstheida, Connewitz and Leipzig, the big height it's the hangman's hill where the french great battery is located
In the south the russian masses face off against the french garrisons of two villages with some austrian help. Pashol!
The emperor of Austria, the Tsar and the king of Prussia have the overall command of this multinational army
Their french counterpart reviews the Garde in the center
French garrisons: conscripts on Probstheida
And poles on Connewitz
The french reseve cavalry remains hidden behind Probstheida
In the north, masses of prussians and russians face off against half their number of imperials
Von Yorck's corps
And Langeron's
The allies got first trun and made my guns limber in the hill
Austrians ad russians rushed forwards
As did their comrades in the north
The imperial forces on both fronts opened up
The forces on the north began to retreas as the south held their ground (protected by the two villages)
Schöonefeld occupied by poles
The guns moved to form a gunline with the garde garrison in Leipzig
Expecting an inminent attack on the south villages the cavalry reseve got close to protect them
The russian great battery blew up the french guns on the hill who did not fire a single shot during the battle so far
The northern allies kept moving onwards
But the south instead hold and fired on the french garrisons
The poles moved to Stöteritz while french line kept retreating over the Parthe river
Since the south allies wouldn't come at me I had to come at them with my cavlry before they shot me to pieces: multiple charge!
I unlimbered the guns near Leipzig
The charged russians reacted firing
The monarchs joined the fray but were wounded
They sacrifice did little service as the victorious french swept over the first russian line and closed on the imperial guard
Opening a gap in the center in the truest french tradition
The allied south forces evaded the threat on their center while moving both their flanks forward
Multiple charge on the guard, that fired causing some damage on the chasseurs
Vörwartz! prussian gun move towards The bridge over the Parthe
A russian unit climbed the hangaman's hill only to come into a violent crossfire from two french units
Napoleon himself joined the combat agains the ruassian guard but was unfortunatelly wounded
The guardsmen managed to repel the dragoons but were cut to pieces by the chasseurs
Poniatownsky was also wounded
The russian center is no more! Eylau II
In the north, the french reached the riverbank but found that they had nowhere to retreat further!
The dragoons charged a russian unit that had advanced recklessly and was now isolated
While the chasseurs charged the guns
The cowardly russian gunners however retreated behind their cossaks
The grenadiers fired on the charging dragoons
Who ignoring the lead buzzers anihilated the lone russian unit
Their chasseur comrades didn't have the same luck, Murat was wounded
And they routed
At this point I had to go to my friend Oriol's house to give him his saint's present, so we had to leave it here, I was winning with a killed unit of margin but if the battle had continued things could have gone awry for the outnumbered french. I gave Oriol his gift allright, but great was my surprise when he said that he is giving me all his 1:72 napoleonics as my own saint gift (2 April)! So from here I would like to thank kim for his boundless generosity and say: Vivat Oriol!
Now I'll have to start collecting austrians and mamelukes to get the complete collection, sigh!
Next week we'll take up our Peninsular war campaign again with la Coruña battle
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