Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

Mark and I met up for my third game of Soldiers of Napoleon. I was using my Anglo-Allied (or just Anglo) again, with three bridgades at 700 points. One had a vet line, one light infantry, two line infantry and a battery of 9lbers. Second brigade was two line battalions and a verteran, with another 9lber battery, both with full cassions. My cavalry was two units of Hussars with an attached 6lber horse artillery battery. I also thought I would give British Rifle attachements a try, which promptly put me on +6 to initiative rolls (+1 for British, +2 for two Hussar units, +3 for 3 rifles attachments)  This would drop to +4 with losses, but Mark never beat it, it also gave me +1 reroll for my CinC and the choice of deployment. Mark was using a pure French force, with three freshly painted dragoon regiments with attached artillery, and two infantry brigades with one seasoned, one trained and two units of militia, plus a battery each. What was going to be telling was my morale value was ...

 Mark requested a go of Soldier's of Napoleon, and after Neil's thrashing of my Austrians in 10mm ( insert self referencing link here ), I was keen to have another go too. Mark has 15mm French and also, from the depths of 'Age of Eagles'' Wurrtembergers! Any excuse to bring out my collection of 15/18mm Anglo-Dutch allied, which are partly AB, a lot of Old Glory and a huge British collection of Barrie's 1815 British that I was lucky enough to buy many moons ago. Like the early days of MeG, because this is not an 'I go, You go' system, but a reactive one based on card orders, where you alternate within a go, but sometimes keep the initiative, I have been finding the amount of photos diminished, so this might be a wordy one folks - sorry! I fielded my centre with a light infantry regiment (or Battalion as us Brits refer to them as), two line battalions and a 9lber battery. To their right holding the strategically important hamlet of  'Jenay Acunune Ide...