General de Brigade: Prussian Attack

One of the good things about our group is that we have plenty of Napoleonic figures so that we can fight battles with both Age of Eagles and General de Brigade. In this scenario of what hopefully will be a two part battle, the Prussians are launching an attack towards a vital town. The Prussians had the equivalent of three divisions which are almost corps strength, but with not much cavalry in support. The French had two divisions of infantry in the front lines with a few brigades in support. The French did have a three regiment cavalry brigade on their right which would prove troublesome for the Prussians on that flank.

The Prussian attack started off well, with a column driving into the French left and with other attacks they had soon cleared the forest on that side. The other Prussian forces began moving up, but were forced to go to square in the face of an imminent French cavalry attack. Two Prussian battalions were driven back by artillery fire and close range firing by French infantry lining the ridge outside of the town. However, two Prussian battalion columns routed a French battalion and were in position to flank the remaining French forces on the ridge.

The Prussian attacks on the right were now in full gear, but were being met by increasing French resistance. When the game was called the French had moved up support and the Prussians were also moving up to launch another sereies of attacks into the center. There is still a lot of heavy fighting to come and hopefully we can finish this the next time.