We met once more to reprise our refight of Teugen-Hausen using the 'Et Sans Resultat'' Napoleonic ruleset. In the first part of this narrative we left the French III Corps under Davout marching westwards towards Teugen whilst the Austrian III Korps under Hohenzollern defended the heights around Hausen. Further east, Rosenborg's IV Korps marched north towards Dunzling to engage any French forces there and block any possible outlfanking maneuvre.
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| Rosenborg quickly arrives at Dunzling to find it bereft of French. His objective reached, he reverts to 'Defend' orders. | | | | | | | | | |
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| Meanwhile, a few miles west, Friant's division deploys whilst Lusignan's Austrians occupy the heights before Hausen. Lusignan aims to buy time in order to allow the bulk of the Austrian army to deploy to his rear. | | | |
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| Behind Lusignan's defensive line, St Julien's division deploys at a painfully slow pace. Such is the joy of commanding Austrians !! | |
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Friant's division (centre, left) is now almost fully deployed while to its rear St Hilaire arrives in support but still in march column. On right, the Austrians opt for a static defence and remain in situ.
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| While the French take their time to deploy and organise their attack, St Julien's division continues its languid deployment around Hausen. |
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| Charge! Friant's division storms uphill to engage Lusignan's infantry. Outnumbered 3:1 the outlook looks bleak for the Austrian defenders. |
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| The assault seen from a different angle. |
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| Lusignan is forced to concede the heights to the outnumbering French |
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| Following their mauling at the hands of the French, Lusignan's units fail their Assessment test miserably and accumulate further fatigue, causing them to rout (on left beyond river). |
And that's where we left it for the week. Hopefully we'll wrap it up next session when the two titanic divsions of Friant and Saint Julien will presumably clash. The Austrians are entirely fresh and have a distinct advantage in artillery while the French have racked up some fatigue following their struggle with Lusignan. However, the French should make up for it with their superior quality and with having the entirely fresh division of St Hilaire to the rear.
To be continued........
Refighting a battle more than once is the way to gain good insight into both the game and battle. Awaiting Part 2!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Jonathan. A few years back we refought the same battle using Age of Eagles and the Austrians did decisively better then.....
DeleteVery impressive battle, Mike. I was just listening to a very interesting YouTube video on the War of the Third Coalition while finishing up the Scots Greys.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dean. Those Scots Greys came out real fine. Looking forward to the Dutch Lancers now. :)
DeleteA good point to suspend business as both sides can come back to the game with a hope of winning. Interesting that the balance plays upon Fresh V Quality. I do like the size and scope of the game.
ReplyDeleteThanks for commenting Norm.
ReplyDeleteYes, it's bound to be a hard-fought encounter between two large divisions. In ESR, the more deployed units a division has, the harder it is to make it retreat, much less rout. So these two large divisions will be quite an even match although I think the French still have the edge.