AAR 13
From: Pahlen/Likhatchev (Scott Monteith)
Most of the AAR will be on the Russian held Flechettes since my other
command didn't see action until last gaming period.
Opening of battle saw IV Russian Corp in front of the Flechettes and
only the artillery of the VI Corp in the flechettes with one art.
battery in
reserve. The French on F1 across from us did not move forward for
most of
the
gaming first period and as a result the IV Corp started to fall back
to the
hill and flechettes to the Russian left. French finally started their
advance
when IV Corp started their fall back. Some artillery was fired on
both sides
with little damage.
Second period saw more advance of the French,who turned out to be the
4th Corp of Eugene w/Italian guard. This Corp was larger than our VI
& IV
Corps combined and they had 2 Cav Corp(4th & 6th) within the 4th
Corp. The
Russian Corps had no cavalry at all which would give us a great
disadvantage
in the ensuing conflict as it unfolded. The Russian IV Corp did
manage to
withdraw to the Russian left with the jagars taking the woods to the
extreme
left and forward. The VI Corp now filtered in most of the 7th
division to
the
flechettes keeping the whole 24th div. and 2 artillery batteries in
reserve
on the reverse slop, unknown to the French.
Third period (Friday pm) saw more artillery action on both sides plus
small arms action in the woods to our left(jagers and French inf.).
As the
French advanced so did their artillery which we could do nothing to
stop or
even threaten unless we used our artillery which was used more for
inf. and
cav. targets. We requested cavalry support which was denied, orders
were to
hold area till the end with what you have. As the French advanced to
take
the
flechettes and started to engage the Russians the entire 24th div now
showed
themselves much to the surprised French.
Fourth period had continued heavy fighting in the woods to our left
with the French slowly gaining ground, and French advancing toward the
Russian IV Corp on the hill left off Russian VI Corp. Time was right
for
counter attack in the flechettes now in French hands, I figured they
were
very fatigued. I attacked with only 2 battalions of line inf. in
column and
as a result each pushed back 2 French battalions. The next turn I
again
attacked with same 2 battalions, one was stopped due to artillery
fire but
the other went through 3 more French battalions. This worked very
well as to
make the attack on the Russian right an non-issue. That forward
battalion
did
die but it took 2 cav charges and an inf. attack over the next 3
turns to
destroy it. On the IV Corp side several of their artillery stopped
any and
all French attacks, one battery stopped no less than 3 cavalry
charges!
Period 5, I left to command Pahlen-III Cav Corp who with all the
Cossacks
were attacking the French extreme left in the rear or F2 table.
Pahlen's
command like the 24th was fresh and ready to do combat. The time of
day
however did play into the results, after one charge the battle cav.
was hard
to order for follow-up charges. The Russian cav. and Cossacks did
their job
and damaged the French very much on F2 table. I looked at the
Flechettes
near
the end at which time the Russians were pulling back with much of VI
Corp
still intact but IV Corp was hardy left, this as a result of continued
artillery fire at closer range since the French had a ton of
artillery and
could move it up closer with no threat of cavalry. The French never
got off
the Flechettes table and there was still some fight left in the
Russians if
they continued. In the end both sides lost about 8,000+ men on C-2
table.
The
C-2 table held out for the game even when C-1 was lost to the French
and R-1
was losing to the French push in the table to our rear.
I enjoyed the game very much and look forward to the next Jodie-Con
THANK YOU,
SCOTT MONTEITH
Pahlen/Likhatchev
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