Game Five: the Battle of Mühlbach's Hofe: Red vs Blue

Game Five: the Battle of Mühlbach's Hofe

Scenario 1  An Encounter  Battle

Its a simple line 'em up and let em go game... both sides face off across the valley.  

Red Force
Maj-Gen Stuhl,
Chief of Staff, Colonel Inkontinenz
1st Brigade
Grenadier Guards
1st Foot
2nd Foot
Rifles company
Battery  Arrival on (? plus d6 turns)
2nd Brigade
3rd Foot
4th Foot (Detached and unavailable)
Red Hussars 

Blue
Maj Gen Le Compte du Pompe  
1st Brigade
Grenadier Regiment (2 Battalions)
1st du Ligne
2nd du Ligne
2nd Brigade
3rd du Ligne
4th du Ligne
Battery

Colonel Michel-Georges de Vique (the impressive Blue cavalry Commander) Blue Dragoon Guards
Blue 2nd Dragoons

Mühlbach's Hofe, and what a hofe it is...

Red Skirmishers rush to occupy the buildings

Blue skirmishers under a handsomely fat officer also make for the buildings

The Red main body arrives.

Colonel Michel-Georges de Vique appears with some of his dragoons out on the flank... giving Red something to think about.

Blue skirmishers seize the tall building and the wall line. 

Blue get their gun deployed and the head of a column appears

But we can all relax.  The Red Hussars are here...

A Rifles group moves down slope to spoil Colonel Vique's day

The Blue gun starts to bombard the Red line

Blue Grenadiers head for the Red occupied farmhouse

The Red Line skirmishers defend valiantly 

Hussars vs Dragoons.  It's a sea of fives.  The Red Officer is killed on a roll of ... 5...

Colonel Viques continues his charge into the skirmishing rifles

A massacre as yet more dragoons appear... and yes those two are unpainted...

Battle in the farmhouse.  The Blue Officer dominates

With the end of the line vulnerable Red form a square, but are now vulnerable to the cannon.  The Red line is threatened on both flanks and now has an enemy held strong point to its front.

And Blue now hold the buildings and wall line.  

I could have continued, but clearly Red were in a bad position, so I decided that enough was enough.  Maj Gen Stuhl retreats to fight another day.  
The Legion of Honour for our winners, the British Legion Club in Pelton for our losers...
To be honest it was that roll of fives that destroyed my morale, and the Hussars.  Actually those Hussars need some training!  
Good game...