Another run out for Glory Is Fleeting rules today with Stephen.
He used a pre-1812 British Peninsula force and I used contemporary French Army of Suchet in Spain (both fielded 12 units)
Suchet is by default an Exceptional General so I was able to strip 3 options from strategies available to British (I rolled 6 dice with double 1, double, 2 and double 3 making decision of which to remove automatic).
I ended up choosing Flexible Defence from 4 options left to me and Stephen picked Flank March (interesting to see this strategy)
Peninsula terrain has access to lots of hills (3 compulsory for defender) but we had quite varied terrain which fell quite well for me (with a large wood securing a flank and a strong point in a central town).
The flank march obviously influenced deployments with Stephan sending 2 Divisions on flank marches (both deep on same flank as it turned out).
Thankfully I had a Division of Veteran units deployed on my right as these bore brunt of Brit attention as I tried to turn his left.
My Cavalry Reserve arrived centrally and was sent to support my outnumbered right wing.
We failed to finish as we thrashed out a few remaining rules lessons regarding supporting units (some wording confused us) and the sequencing of melee combat, and just how Skirmishing works (pretty much a variation of Lasalle 2 method) and of course interspersed with waffling over pros and cons, intricacies of system and the army lists and army make ups :-)
But this is overall a decent system (I do so like the set up/strategies system) that suits the Corps vs Corps scale of game and whilst none of inertia (no Pips, cards etc) we are used to or national characteristics, it works for this level and style game (pick up points game playable in a few hours).
Pics lacking variety as all the action was mainly in one area
Looks a cool game Sir!
ReplyDeleteIt was and pity we failed to finish but very entertaining. Too much waffle and experimenting with Cavalry vs Square and suchlike (Cavalry need careful timing and positioning to be effective against foot as impetuous style charges usually fail horribly)
DeleteThanks for the write up, Gary!
Deletealways good to read your write-ups Gary. If you have any rule queries, or want to chew the fact on tactics, pop a post on the Glory facebook page which has an active community.
ReplyDeletePlayed Glory is Fleeting a ratingt Nashcon, the Battle of Quatre Bras and it seemed like a Napoleonic battle, units didn't just disintegrate in a matter of minutes like some games, the skirmishing seemed to fit Napoleonic game more so than. What I've seen in Nappy Games.
ReplyDeleteThe allies leader kept checking Morale which was a problem, we could not break through, the French won the skirmishing, but the British were winning the morale and then game. gave it a A-, would have liked to killed them bloody Brunswickers.