It was a singular battle for the right wing of the allied deployment, of a slow cooking, without frights, in which the enemy facing my division, coinciding with the French extreme left -commanded by SamuelGim- seemed to be playing the role of numbing and nailing allied troops with the mere flapping of their insignia and some timid movements of feint and accompaniment of the maneuver that was taking place in the center.
Indeed, the clapperboard with the decisive act seemed to sound in the NOE zone, opposite to ours; and to a lesser extent in the center. But I didn't have a record of the first until the final measure.
In my sector it only seems to me to review, from the perspective of the one who subscribes these lines, the furious attack that was made through a forest and its contours, from which my Dutch division received partial splashes, corresponding to the French attack that was spreading Beyond the eastern limit of that forest, Asalex being the one who fitted the main enemy effort there, and who, according to the result, successfully deflected the French rapier.
The allied right. In the background is a mass of troops that remained passive for much of the battle. The charging battalion testifies to one of the few occasions in which the French taught his fang there, surely accompanying the most determined offensive that was unleashed in the center / forest.In view of the passive attitude posed by the enemy on our right wing, I recommended and requested that I be granted the opportunity to move towards the NOE, which was agreed. However I retained in my hand a minimal mass of troops: two battalions of the three from the start, having lost most of my gun mouths in an unfortunate action when the French onslaught through the forest and its contours. The other brigade of my division was commanded by the newcomer Zubenko, agreeing to keep it in that position in anticipation of the enemy activating there, which finally happened without my being able to see the effects.
Already in the allied line composed to the NOE, the scene was bleak. Just a precarious cordon of troops ready to face the massive and deep formations of French regiments that descended to strike against the line. At that moment, an untimely shutdown of the server served as an excuse to end the game when we were almost there at 2 in the morning and all signs pointed to an important victory for the French.
Shortly after settling on the NOE line, the French unleashed an onslaught in evident superiority with the appearance of being conclusive. So long without playing, I looked downright clumsy; Several times the general's staff got run over in my hands and I had to pick it up at the horse's feet. The early loss of the artillery, which cut off any offensive possibility in that wing, was unforgivable - however, I recommended to the allied generalissimo that he let the sacrifice be made, as he believed it could be beneficial by forcing the French to withdraw troops from his proud right wing and cool down there. the situation. And other failures that I do not tolerate, as they affect the playable experience of third parties, such as leaving, relatively far from the line of fire -but visible- a battalion deployed in a line with their backs to the front, thinking that it was not mine but from the Brigade Zubenko commanded, expending energy warning the fledgling general to correct that when he was competing with me. Another mistake, not a minor one, an extreme slowness when moving my troops from one sector to the other due to bad interaction with the AI chief of the only brigade that depended on me.
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