Bögenhafen Swordmen

Bögenhafen, the richest city in Reikland after Altdorf, it's economy is based upon the production of wine. 

 The importance of wine can be seen in the shield of the guy in the forefront corner

 standard bearer and sergeant

 a City so rich must have a band of drums to lift the spirits of it's boys

althought not all of these bourgeois soldiers have what it takes to march to battle

Journey of a cartographer: Chapter 1

War in the Reik, the Reikland campaign

We left the Reikland campaign with the move of the Imperial navy against the dark elf fleet in an attempt to relieve Altdorf. 

The imperial navy moves poderously downstream, the greatship Franz's Wrath leads a squadron of lesser wolfships and a little wargalley.

 Against them, the black ark "fortress of pleasure" sails rapidly upstream with it's holds full of monstrosities: a squadron of helldrakes and a death fortress

A storm force erupts over the battlefield, making shots and other actions impossible during one turn

 The black ark closes and unleashes all their monstruous ships against the lone greatship at the head of the imperial formation. The shots from the death fortress inutilize the deathgalley crippling it's mast, oars and cannons in a single salvo. The boarding action is short and bloody, the crew is slain rapidly by the monsters and sinking the franz's wrath. 

 Meanwhile, three projectiles from the black ark hit the aftcastle of one of the wolfships, causing a critical damage... and blowing up the ship as the gunpowder magazines are hitted

 The river flows with the imperial dead

 But the imperial answer is swift and lethal: putting the heart in the oars the two remaining wolfships ram the deathfortress and a hellship firing their powerful frontal batteries at the same time. Before the smoke settles, dozens of imperial sailors jump into the monster's hides cutlass and pistol in hand.

 A hellship is sinked, but one of the wolfships looses it's boarding action against the now damaged deathfortress.

 Seizing the initiative, the surviving wolfship sends the deathfortress to the bottom with the combined effort of it's cannons and crew

 The two remaining helldrakes board the wolfship. Althought one of them dies riddled by canister, the other manages to sink the ship.

The inmobilized wargalley mets it's end under the reaper batteries of the black ark.

After the battle the campaign game continued, turn 2: Sigmarzeit month

 Sigmarzeit Darkness: the dark elf army (in purple) moved to the east, to the wasteland above Grauenburg; in the Reik, the dark elf fleet moved to the harbours in Kemperbad, mistress of the river after the destruction of the imperial fleet. The goblin army sent a small deatachment (a unit of wolf riders numbered 2) to take control of Kemperbad, while the main amy moved north to lay siege to the Castle Reiksguard.

Sigmarzeit Empire: The army of the Great Theogonist (2) kept guarding the Castle Reiksguard, while the army of the Emperor (1) moved northwards into battle with the dark elves, wich will be our next battle of the campaign.

Two man o'war navies

Dark elf fleet:  from left to right: black ark, death fortress, squadron of helldrakes

  Imperial fleet, those ships come from an ancient game about the battle of Lepanto

 Imperial greatship

 wargalley

squadron of wolfships

Finished reaver

Leipzig 200 aniversary

 Supplies ready!

 The overview of the battlefield from the south: the village in the left is Leipzig with the bridge over the Elster, near the heights is the village of  Wachau, in the background the villages of Mokern (left) and Schönefeld (right)

view from the north

 Allied army

In the south:

Eugene Corps: 1 russian division, 1 prussian division, 1 austrian division and one prussian artillery battery

The allied monarchs corps: 1 guard division, 1 guard cavalry division (guard cossacks), 1 position battery

in the east:

Gorchakov corps: 1 hussar division, 1 russian infantry division

in the north:

Blucher corps: 1 prussian infantry division, 1 hussar division and 1 prussian artillery battery

Bernardotte corps: 1 russian infantry division, 1 landwehr division, 1 cuirassier division and a battery of artillery

French imperial army

in the south:

Poniatowski corps: 1 polish division, 1 french division deployed around Wachau 

Napoleon corps: 1division of guard cavalry (polish lancers), 1 infantry division, 1 artillery battery and 1 imperial guard division in reserve

in the north:

Macdonald corps: 2 french infantry divisions and 1 chevauxleger division around Schönefeld

Ney corps: 1 voltigeur division, 1 artillery battery and 1 polish division around Mokern

 The three emperors with the russian guard

 Napoleon with his

 View from the Elster

 The allies start their attack

 in the east the Hussars charge a unit that fails to form a square

 in the north, the other division of hussars charge without suffering losses from the french canister

 the guard moves to reinforce the north

 susrprisingly the hussars are driven back by the french crew

 the polish guard lancers charge a russian division that manage to form the square

 in the east the hussars have suffered one casualty from the infantry, but now with the help of one division of russians that take the french in the flank are able to rout them capturing the first eagle of the day

 The russian guard also charges the poles in the flank

 after the dust settles there remain only the guards on the field, the square and the poles had been destroyed

 the russian hussars in the north are driven back in dishonor by the heroic french artillerymen

 the guard charges the russian cuirassiers who have suffered casualties due to musket fire, in the back of the guard the voltigeurs division regroups after having retroceded from the cuirassiers charge

 in the east the chevauxlegers charge the hussars in the west to prevent the line from falling

 the guard cossacks smash through a french division defending the heights and capturing an eagle in the process

 in the south a prussian division routs one of french while the fight for Wachau remains undecided with poles and austrians fighting around its streets

 in the north  a russian division captures Mockern, expelling its polish garrison

 while the prussian artillery blows up the stubborn french cannons that have excelled against the hussars

 another russian infantry division joins the fight against the imperial guard but without managing to break the elite french troops. next to them the landwehr attack Schönefeld, but without much sucess

 the guard cossacks descend the heights invading the french rearguard

 Finally Wachau falls to the allies who attack it en masse. With both his flanks turned out and just a portion of his army resisting around Schönefeld napoleon orders the retreat and crosses the bridge over the Elster.