Two Games in a week

 On Monday Howard invited me round for an afternoon of 15mm 'General D'Armee. He had created a scenario based around Papelotte (to show off his lovely new mdf building). Howard was the French whose objective was to take Papelotte and also get at least one unit off the board along my deployment zone. As the British and their Allies my objective was simpler, stop Howard achieving his! 

Papelotte with the French advancing from the left.

Lots of French were on the march.

More French.

(as usual we put too many troops on the table to get the game finished).

One of a few unsuccessful French assaults on Papelotte. 

Howard did manage to damage my unit in the BUA to the extent that I swapped a fresh unit in mid game. 

Huzzah, Kempts Brigade arrive to help the British and their allies.

Sadly they were unable to move from this spot so had no influence on the game. 

Look at those dice scores for this mid table melee!

Look at my cavalry run!

 Howard really enjoyed this moment as his newly painted lancers ran riot. . 

His cavalry decided to continue and charge my guns, but they didn't quite reach. 

My guns enjoyed this moment more than Howard!

Sadly this was the last action that we had time for. It seemed that the French were slowly gaining the upper hand but we called the game a hard fought draw. 

A great game as always and played in the usual friendly spirit. 

Wednesday saw us move back to Medieval times with a game set in the Hundred Years War using the Hail Caesar rules. Our armies are still growing so we needed a scenario that suited small forces. The idea was the English had landed at Brest in Brittany and gone off on a chevauchee (raid). The local French forces had to confront them and also get to the top of a nearby hill to light the warning beacon. The English of course wished to fight off the French and prevent the lighting of the beacon. The English had to deploy next to a small village they were currently raiding. 

Just under 200 points of English in two divisions, Ni and I took control of a division each. gel. 

200 points of French in two divisions led by Ian. 

English deployment, we got this so wrong as it turned out. 

French Foot

The glass bead represents the beacon and Ian supplied the pile of dead, modelled from broken figures. 

Ian's, cavalry division on the march. These guys proved to be battle winners. 

I tried to get my division across the board to protect the beacon. 

The order dice were not good to me. 

Nigel needed to swing his troops round to face the French foot.  

Overhead view of the two forces approaching each other. 

Ian threw some good order dice and soon managed to out manoeuvre my hobilars which he soon destroyed. 

Ian's mounted Sergeants were very effective in this game. 

Ian's peasants claim the beacon and get it lit, victory to the French. 

This game was over so quickly we re-arranged the terrain and set about a second game with more or less the same forces. This time, the French were pursuing the English who were trying to rally around another village. 

Nigel set his division up amidst the village.

Ian continued with his good order throws and sent his cavalry around my flank again!

We had a good fight on this flank but Ian gradually gained the upper hand. 

On the other flank Nigel defeated two of Ian's foot units causing Ian to withdraw the others.

End result, a draw but all good fun. 

For these games we were play testing generic army lists for Hundred Years War English and French  that I had cobbled together from the HC2 rulebook, some we had found on line, a spot of reading up on the subject and also the lists that Charlie shared with me. We made a few tweaks as we worked through the game but overall I think the lists will be ok after another few games.