Thursday, April 02, 2020

Field of Battle - Zorndorf (a mornings action)

Played through several phases of Zorndorf with FOB2 this April morning and as ever with FOB what a fine time to be had even on ownsome.
Used historical set up but not sticking to historical course of battle.
Instead I flung Seydlitz mounted 'Corps' (will call commands Corps though not strictly a SYW formation) straight at Russians under Gaugreben (whose Corps is 'beefed' up by 2 extra Cossack Regiments) on Prussian left whilst Manteuffels Grenadier Corps advanced into the Stein Busch with Kanitz forming his troops into columns to march to Prussian right (ala Le Ducs tactics in previous game).
Dohna pushed his Infantry forward to engage the Russian Observation Corps under Browne.
Schorlemers Cuirassier extended the Prussian right to guard against intervention of the more numerous but poor Russian cavalry under Demiku.
Russians pretty much on hold orders.
Corps Demiku intended to float around the Prussian right wing but failed to move on three seperate opportunities and only managing a single move segment on last Move card !
Seydlitzs attack was caught by some effective Russian cannon fire and then Cuirassier unit Routed !!
To cap off a bad start Seydlitz fell in battle putting whole Corps in jeopardy, but a timely intervention by Dragoon formations under Bieberstein saw off Russian threat destroying 2 units of Cossacks.
Seydlitz replacement has managed to restore command and morale in his Corps so things now looking grim for Russian right wing.
The massed Prussian cannon under Frederick opened up on the Infantry of Saltylovs Corps but no real damage inflicted.
Manteuffel stuck in Stein Busch (no Move cards as despite having 4 in deck re-shuffles did not help).
Musketry exchanges between Dohna and Brownes Corps saw Prussians falling back but Dohna has also restored Morale.
Kanitz slow (those missing Move cards again having an effect) slow getting across but has now deployed his troops to assist attack on Obs Corps.
The mounted Corps of Schorlemer and Demiku also on move and due to clash...........

FOB works so well for solo actions with the card initiative system.

Hopefully more to come..................






















2 comments:

  1. Fine looking game Sir!

    Cheers
    Matt

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  2. Looking good. As we both know, FoB lends itself to a narrative driven game, even when playing both sides!

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