Can't be with you. Have fun guys!
Finally, the most awaited day have arrived... Is there a division available? :howdy
Can't be with you. Have fun guys!
Finally, the most awaited day have arrived... Is there a division available? :howdy
I might as well mention here that the Prussians never got over 850 points, as far as I recall, and we ended with something above 400, while the French ended with nearly ONE HUNDRED TWENTY THOUSAND POINTS!
...so, spoiler. They won. :R.I.P.
My first battle in Dogs of War, thanks to all for the experience :notworthy
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Meanwhile, by the time I found my artillery (by sending them a courier to defend and following the courier), Sandman, Fabian, and Tadzio were already attempting to combine three divisions on an assault on two points -- which seemed like a good idea (although I never got messages about this -- or much of anything really. ;) Mostly for reasons I'll explain soon, I suppose.) But the French managed to rush the other two points first, and (based on the replay) took them before I even caught up with my arty. The western point (uncontested by the Prussians at the start of the game) was sitting out in the middle of a plain, but the central point was on the southern edge of a nice forest in which the French could fort up as much as they wanted; and the eastern point (nearest to me) was sitting on a hill, with a little copse on it, surrounded by creek on three sides. The French did not sit on their laurels, exactly, but prosecuted an attack forward (southward) toward our three divisions, plus a flank from the uncontested side of course, leaving basically some small reserves on the points. All game. With one (or possibly two?) slight and temporary seizure of a point by the Prussians at the end.
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Having finally found my reserve artillery -- basically its own brigade with four or five regiments each with multiple batteries, but not cav or inf -- I was stuck trying to figure out what to do (especially since my artillery were already shooting opportunistically at the French advancing down the east side of the map. From this position I knew nothing about what was happening anywhere else, of course.) Ideally I would have tried to bring my cannon swarm back to the middle of our thrust, but I had some rivers (with no fords or bridges) between me and the middle, and I couldn't be sure the French weren't already rolling far enough to intercept me if I tried slowly leapfrogging with bounding cover.
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At the time, my best chance seemed to be to keep a fourth regiment back (he later refused to move, being too married to his decent defensive position) and hustle first two and then the third regiment upon a hill to the east of the battlefield. Here I parked two regiments of artillery where they shot at the eastern French division all game -- but the main problem was that between us in the valley wasn't only a creek system (helping protect me from opportunistic charges) but several connected wood copses which my arty was having a hard time shooting through.
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