SHAKO 2 Meeting Engagment #3 - Russians!

 Another opportunity to get the Napoleonic minis out on the table came on the 22nd.

Mike - from twitch was able to take command - though at a later than planned start time.

First turn complete
the table setup fully shown in the garage

cossacks!

view looking up the table from behind the cossacks

Russian Guard commander

Russian artillery commanded the hill on the Russian right

Dragoons make ready

view into the French left flank

Italians held French left

view down the French lines

camera 'in view'

turn 3 start

cossacks were mauled

they charged many times to keep the
French right held in place

while the horse and guns worked the other flank

Russian columns moved forward

pressing with two divisions

the guards arrive

Pavlov Grenadiers on the table for the first time in many years

end of turn 3 score was 2-0 favoring the French

table view turn 4

the French right had shattered the cossacks

in the center Bavarians were moving through the woods

a Russian division commander had been surrounded
by Bavarian jaegers

while the Italians had held firm

French Dragoons had swept out and hammered into the
Russian columns!

the Guard flags could be seen behind the Russian gun line

Russian Dragoons made ready

French light cavalry had been scattered by the
Russian Dragoons and guns

Pavlov Grenadiers
(flash photo)

Pavlov Grenadiers in columns

Russian HQ and Grenadier Division

the Bavarian Jaeger had flanked the first Russian Division
now hitting their trailing artillery battery

the Russian first Division commander was isolated from his
men and unable to accept a desperate order to re-position
just as the 2nd Division was collapsing having been
hit by French Dragoons and artillery barrage

overview from the 1st Division area

view from far flank

Russian grenadier division seen in field
column formations

2nd Division in foreground (turned to face Bavarians)
Grenadiers and HQ (pink flag) in the background

Bavarians storming out of woods

Italians blasting away remnants of 2nd Division
(casualties on right and foreground)

the many dead of 2nd Div

many many dead

they left three battalions of them from the
combined Dragoon and artillery attack

Russian grenadier division was to hold the ground
vacated by the 1st Div

French HQ

The battle was to be declared a substantial French Victory, at a final score of 6 to 2.

The Russian commander did not feel that he could advance any more (as the attacker) and that the French could shelter enough from his gun line and be able to break the other division before he could get his lines re-set.

This was an amazing tour-de-force series of games I managed to get in with Mike, who I thank very much for putting up with the camera and communications challenges.