Siege of Roses

 

Finally what you all have been expeting, a battle report featuring the new fortress. This game pitches a small force of spanish defenders againt a massive army of frenchmen in a coastal citadel in the Costa Brava, in northeastern Catalonia

The imperials are ready

Saint Cyr surveys the fortifications

The spanish stand resolutely behind the ramparts

Muskets and guns point towards the french invader

The defenders get the first turn and start by opening fire and digging mines

The imperials start their approaches

That sneak forwards relentlessly

The first parallel is dug up as the armies come closer

However the spanish detonate a mine and kill some conscripts

The second parallel is opened within musket range

Despite terrible losses, the imperials begin to dig the breaching mines

The charges explode...

Opening three breaches in the walls

The first bastion is carried by french steel

However the invaders struggle against the ruins of the gate

With a bastion in their power, the besiegers move up the guns to blast the rest to bits

A bitter struggle for the curtain wall erupts on the right

The overconfident catalan militia makes a sortie, but is repulsed by the imperials

Another unit of miquelets charges the redoubt, but to no avail

The siege ends when the garrison of the second redoubt is blown to bits by several mines

And the sometents are cleared from the wall

After these two moves Roses belongs to Napoleon

The system worked out pretty well, the fortress fell in seven weeks but not without a struggle. The mines  however seem way too powerful and fast, so they'll be nerfed in the future