After our game on Saturday, I left up the terrain for a training game with 2 of our club members. Gabriel had played just one game of GdA, while David had played several games but wanted some practice. We played the Weissenfels scenario but to simply the game, I made all units in the OB Line Status and simplified the terrain by making the Ripach stream normal rather than deep allowing infantry units to cross at half speed. These changes certainly favoured the French but as Gabriel who was playing the French had only played one previous game I felt this was reasonable.
Some Photos taken at game end:
Summing Up
I was surprised how smoothly the game went, I told Gabriel just to decide what he thought a Napoleonic Commander would do and not worry about the mechanics. This worked well for him. David played the Russian defence in a much different way than was played the day previous keeping 2 brigades in Reserve. Gabriel was able to get his troops over the stream this not causing a major traffic snarl south of the stream as each Reinforcing brigade came on.
We were able to play 8 turns over 5 hours which was really quite good. The French Cavalry were able to get quite close to Rocken but the Russian Cavalry in Reserve came on challenge them. Charges were planned but oddly enough both brigades went Hesitant. At this point we called the game. The Russians had one Falter while the French had none, there was just one dispersal. So a very marginal victory for the French was called. However, when I looked at the table post game, I felt that with a few more turns the Russians good have pulled off a Defensive Victory. There units were in better shape a din a better position.
I had a lot of fun with this game and I hope both players enjoyed the experience. They both played quite well.
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