We've now begun playing through the 1813 scenarios with the first being Lutzen. In the historical battle, a Prussian force under Blucher attacked Ney near Leipzig, with the aim of cutting the French forces in two and threatening their supply lines. For our game the Russians and Austrians assumed the attackers role.
The Allies deployed infantry to attack all three villages, with most of the Horse supporting the Austrians in the centre and west. The French focused on the west and centre, with a small garrison in the east supported by their light cavalry.
Austrians in the east |
Russians in the west |
The Austrians attack in the centre quickly stalled when they bounded-off the first village, lost 2 units and found themselves attacked by the French. As the Russians advanced alone, they came under fire from two sides and took heavy loses, which ended their attack as well.
Light cavalry clash |
Russians advance into heavy fire |
The defeat of the Austrian light cavalry by their theoretically weaker opponents somewhat broke the Allies morale and so they withdrew to regather their strength for a second assault. French Win.
Austrians attacking in the east |
We realised after the game that we had done the infatry melees wrong, having only done cavalry previously. The outcomes were not as destructive for the attacking Austrians as we had thought and so they could have fought on more effectively. So we'll refight next week with tweaked forces.