Wednesday, 4 March 2026

La Grande Armee gets "blooded"

 My WW1 French army took on a well placed German army guarding the HQ of General Kluck-it was bloody!!


The table set-up.French plan was to advance slowly frontally whilst the flanks would be attacked by swiftly moving columns of infantry,supported by artillery fire-what could possibly go wrong??


The German HQ,c/w defenders-artillery,machine guns and infantry.


French advance,columns outstripping the central force-all is going to plan.


The French attack begins(excuse "smoke" it is just to indicate which units are firing!)-both sides suffered casualties but not enough to deter the French-hurrah!


The order to charge is just about to be given-oh dear!!


Contact!!-go on boys(garcons?) give 'em the bayonet(they do not like it up 'em!)


The defences have been breached,but only in this one place-all along the rest of the line,the French were beaten!!


The French have been thrown out and forced to retire(its good being retired!)


Kluck is gloating-however he is in for a nasty shock-the British are on their way to support the French complete with a new fangled contraption in the way of a flying machine!!

Another interesting game-I'm getting into this period!












































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