Quatre Bras

 The battle of Quatre Bras is the first in the Waterloo minicampaign: the winner of the first two games gets an extra unit in the finale. In this scenario the british start with one unit and some guns in Gemicourt under the prince of Orange, the french under Ney have vastly more units in the left of the pic. As the day goes on both the french and british recieve reinforcements.

 The battle begins in the same old style: massed battery fire into Gemicourt

 Jerome Bonaparte comes in at 15:00 with his infantry division

 Orange's guns make limber the french

 As picton shows up with reinforcements in the left

 Dutch cavalry also shows up formed in column

 The french move in bulk to Tyle, in the british left

 The british cannon fire at extreme range, causing some casualties

 Picton's men deploy in line to counter the french masses

 The dutch cavalry charges into the limbered guns

 Wich fail to evade

 And are routed

 Marshal Ney, the french CiC is killed during the rout

 French dragoons then come from the reserve smashing into the victorious dutch

 Thyle is in french hands

 But the british guards arrive from the rear to reinforce the allied left

 After some swordplay the french cavalry moves to Thyle as the allied hussars keep their distance

 French move into the river forming a massive column

 A scottish division shows up in the left

 Guards and regulars form the thin red line

 The dutch have recovered their losses and reformed in line

 The french riders then charge

 The first charge is repulsed

 The french form a line too, but the river impairs their shooting game

 A division flees the fearsome british volleys

 Fresh dragoons charge into the dutch

 With more reinforcements, the allies form a gunline around Gemicourt

 The lone french division begins to retreat real slow

 The cavalry duel remains inconclusive

 With both french units mauled and unable to charge, the infantry moves forward to drive them back

A british battery advances towards Thyle as the scots chill in the marsh, nowhere like home! 

 It is now 21:00 the guard charges against the enemy as the battle comes to an end

 Overview, the allies win 2-0

 Gemicourt remains safely in british hands

 The cavalry was shattered

 This french division would have rolled 7 dice to the guard's 13, bad business

Muh iron Duke