Today a Napoleonic tabletop battle was fought at school.
The armies were French and Prussian and each side had 15 troops and one commander. We tossed a dice to start, Thomas rolling a 3 and I rolling a 5, so I made the first move of the battle.
As I didn't have enough troops to form a square and didn't want to form a bayonet hedge I instead made what looked like a bayonet edge with a rounded back to keep Mr M safe from flanking attacks.
Thomas sent forwards his Voltguers to pick of my men. In order to counter this I moved my entire formation forward to intercept them, making sure his main force was out of range.
The Voltiguers were eliminated on the first volley with no losses to the Prussians.
He then proceded to attack my main force, killing Prussians before suffering 2 losses of his own.
The battle continued like this for a while. He had taken 8 losses compared to my 4 when he decided it was a good time to retreat, leaving behind a rear guard of 3 men to slow me down.
It didn't work. My Prussians immediately killed 2 out of the 3 and the remaining man surrendered.
The French took 10 casualties compared to my 4.
All in all this was a very succesful battle for me!
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