AOE: Peninsula Engagement

Meeting Engagement Back & Forth

It's been a while on updates, but we are still playing games, but some didn't ahve enough photos for a full web page. This time it was back to the Spanish Peninsula where there were several objectives for both sides consisting of hills and villages. We only had four players, so this smaller sized battle worked out well with each player getting the equivalent of two divisions. The French had some large brigades, but few of them, while the British had all kinds of brigades, but many were fairly small. This set up an interesting clash where the British firepower went up against the mass of French. The French were pretty aggressive at the start and pressed the issue almost immediately. Both sides launched counterattacks at every opportunity and by the mid way point it was certainly a close run affair. The French had the lone cavalry unit and it desperately tried to break the British on the French right flank, but was unable to do so. In the center-left the British counterattacked and in some fierce fighting, pushed the French almost back to their start line. On the French left, their infantry carried two objectives (villages), but were so weakened by the attack that they couldn't possibly hold and the game was called as a British victory.

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