Franco-Prussian Battle

The undulating heights around Spicheren - we need more trees!

Couldn't find a label for this post as we haven't logged anything as 19th Century or Franco-Prussian on the blog.  Mark and I used Bloody Big Battles to stage a test fight of the Battle of Spicheren 6th August 1870.

Mark's terrain is ideal for representing the detailed terrain required for this rule set and this relatively small battle enabled me to rebase the necessary forces rather quickly.

We wanted to see whether the rules boast that the huge battles of the 19th century can be fought in an evening was possible. I had a rather cursory understanding of the rules and Mark had no knowledge at all - and yet we played it out in 3 hours!

There's lots of manoeuvre, the fighting is bloody and a great deal of command incompetence.

We intend to tart the table up and present this as a Thursday night game in the near future. Mark took more photos and I hope he will present his own post.