7YW extravaganza!

Last night we had 100% (plus one!) turnout for this "cracking" 7YW game ,pitting Paul's Austrian Army against my Prussian Army.-The plus one was the arrival of a gamer who approached us at Stockton and asked if he could come along and watch our method of play etc.

These two shots show the Austrian "team" discussing tactics before the game started-Paul,Brian and Dave were the Austrians,whilst Graham and I were the Prussians-the objective of the game was for the Austrians to capture the town.

On our far right flank,Graham has lined the hill with infantry and a gun battery-these inflicted horrendous casualties on Brian's troops trying to cross the river(at half speed!)-the bottom photo shows the masses of cavalry on our left flank,moving into contact-stirring stuff!

Top shows Dave about to unleash his Infantry against the Town,bottom shows my response-they will not enter(??)-this fire-fight went on for 4 moves,until weight of numbers(and rotten dice throws!) began to take its toll and I was forced to retire(it's good being retired!) my first line.

The cavalry battle is in full swing-neither side gaining a real advantage,however I was outnumbered,and I had a funny feeling that Paul would eventually start throwing his "demon dice"-I wasn't wrong!!!!!-this was thrilling stuff,and totally enjoyable.

This shows Dave's "Grand Attack" on Graham's flank and the Town-could we survive? Brian was also pushing forward across the river,when our reinforcements arrived in the form of a Hanoverian brigade-can they save the day?-too many questions,and not enough answers!!- in the background you can see the cavalry still battling it out-absolutely "cracking".

Despite a valiant effort from Graham's Hanoverians,he was beaten,both frontally and on the flank(losing an Officer-note new "officer killed" token!)-The town troops were being pushed back-although we did have replacement troops ready to take their place! and the Cavalry was about to retire(aw shaddap!!) so  we called it a night-theoretically Graham and I won the game,because the objective hadn't been achieved-but the Austrian "team" would have whinged if we persisted in our claim,so we decided on a very close draw!!!

This was a great game,and it was good to have us all back together,playing a club game-roll on next week.