Refight of Dresden - sort of

Back in late June we had our annual game ( I am not much of a gamer but once a year I will throw dice, drink booze and indulge in pyschological warfare with my so called friends ). This year, mainly due to the fact that I insisted on using my Poles, we did a sort of refight of Dresden.

Now I know the Poles werent at Dresden but were engaged in some pretty ferocious fighting off to the French left. Hence, we constructed a game where the Poles and Russians were engaged off to the left for control of heights and bridges across the river which led to the main action between the French and the allies.

Dresden was represented by some redoubts and a few buildings with the rest of teh table being pretty bare. All in all we used around 2,500 figures with the allies winning a pretty decisive victory primarily due to:

Redeploying the armies
Gamesmanship - I wont go into it..................you know what you did Daryl!
French stupidity - you know what you did Jeff!
The pinning of the Poles by the monster Russian artillery battery

The Poles did eventually drive the Russians off and held both the heights and the bridges but the French were in total disarray. The French Cuirassier division ( under my command of course ) did salvage some honour wiping out the Prussian cavalry and if the game had gone on probably taking out a lot of the Prussian infantry as well.

All in all great fun. Lots of booze, lots of food and some excellent banter. Now the pictures................

Polish Horse artillery and Retreat from Moscow from Murawski Miniatures

Hello everyone

Finally got the Horse Artillery back and inked, as well as the first of the Retreat from Moscow Poles.

The Horse Artillery are for the period 1812-14 ( some say they wore the czapka in 1812 but I've plates saying the colpack so went with that ).

Two types available, firing and loading. The loading comes with 2 figures with the "firing rod" for you to choose which one you use as the head gunner - just get the modelling knife out and cut it off.

Here's the pictures!

 And I found time to ink the Retreat from Moscow Poles which I think are Paul's best work for Murawski Miniatures.

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