Yesterday we had a nice 1 vs. 1 battle. General Sandman, commanding the french Corps Vandamme, competed General Colbert who was in charge of the allied Corps of Rowland Hill. Sandman joined at 19.30 GMT, Colbert was already present. The players didnt expect any more participant and therefore started the battle at 19.45. The battle lasted 3 hours game-time and was already finished at 11.00 GMT. Perfect timing!
The 2 sides were fighting for an Objective located in the west of the area. General Colbert arrived pretty much closer of the location and was able to occupy the Objective.
After about 40 minutes of approaching General Sandman deployed his Corps SE of the target on a lift. Meanwhile the battieries of both factions succesively started their bombardments on the enemy.
After the deployment was completed, General Sandman started an engagement with Haberts Inf Divsion from SSE, followed by a supporting action by Berthenzene´s Division coming from ESE also being supported by 1 Cav brigade. In the 1st stage of the attack the french could hit the allied right wing threatening the Obj. After a while General Colbert activated an unexpected large force of cavalry conducting a devasting counterattack. The skillfully performed micromangaging of a combined armed forces parade stroke back the french attempt taking away any opportunity for any further initiative. The Obj. became neutral only for some smaller periods.
The remaining french forces redeployed at their initial position and were now persistently attacked themselves by the Allies and finally could only hold the ground because of strong Arty battery positions uphill, but had to suffer more heavy losses, until the allies fell back due exhaustion.
The Allies were able to maneuvre a sufficiant number of Cav squadrons over the whole battle-time, while the cowards of Domon´s Division really sucked.
We must admit that the standing of the french Cav was very hard, cos their strengh of 1017 was outnumbered by 2796 allied horseman. But still they fled too soon and didnt give their best. The french had about 1 battery and 2 bataillons of Inf more than the allies, which couldnt compensate the Cav´s deficit.
Note:
When setting up the battle I accidently oversaw that General Colbert had 2 Cav divisions. I thought the other formation was Inf. I never would intentionally equip such a strong commander like General Colbert with that bigger numbers of mobile forces.
Congratulazioni, signor generale!