Salamanca

 

A couple weeks ago, in September, Ken (the French) and I as the (British) refought the 1812 Battle of Salamanca between the Duke of Wellington and his Anglo-Iberian army and Marshal Marmont's French Army of Portugal.  We used Ken's 15mm Napleonic figures and his modified Black Powder 2nd edition rules.  It was a masked, socially distanced game on a Saturday at Your Hobby Place - Fredericksburg. 

A Masked Ken ponders how Marshal Marmont would have proceeded...

The fighting developed early on the British right, and early poor 
command rolls left the British struggling in the face of effective
French fire.

But the French were unable to move their own right flank,
allowing the British to continue to concentrate on the French left.

Early on British unites were shaken and unable to act, one unit 
was badly mauled by the French.  But all stood firm.

The British managed to extricate the surviving battered unit,
and reinforcements came to bear on depleted French forces. 

In the end, despite suffering severe loses, the British took
control of the right flank and earned a minor victory
over the French.