Valour and Fortitude Russians and French Napoleonic 47

 Ben and Des were meant to be having a Bolt action game in the shed but Des couldn't make it so Ben and I decided to have another Valour and Fortitude game to  revise before the big family game. He brought his Russians and I fielded a French force , both of 250 points each. In order to achieve that Ben borrowed a unit of hussars and Austrian cuirassiers and a unit of Landwehr to count as jaegers.

It was also the first outing of the Russian village terrain I did a while ago, so nice to get that finally out!

We had an objective in a wood close to each of us and in the two built up area's as I was in march attack I was able to occupy both built up area's, the Russians are pretty resilient I found, Ben managed to assault both built up areas over time and rolled better dice, which resulted in two draws but because he was the attacker meant he won them! Ouch , he charged his cuirassiers at my dragoons which you would have thought was a forgone conclusion but actually ended with the loss of his cuirassiers there were other fights but we called it at the agreed time which was a mistake as you're meant to make sure each side had had an equal number of turns but finished with Ben having an extra go , a Russian win but good fun, nice to get the village out and get Ben's Russians out. Ben used my mewly primed Austrian limber, it's  been a big incentive to get limbers built and painted playing this game! A belated happy new year to everyone!

All the best 

Iain