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Re: A French Victory! (was Re: The game's afoot!)
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Wed, 2 Feb 2005 03:45:18 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Richard Parsons wrote:
   I had a fine old time myself. Like Richie, I have some pics to download from the trusty digicam, and throw together into a page. I’ll use Richie’s text as the story, with suitable truly Prussian and truly untrue embellishments ;-)


It was indeed a great day. Thanks very much for the hospitality!

Here’s my post again, more or less, but now with added fuzzy photos. They are clickable, but you’ll probably get the gist from the thumbnails.

It is worth noting that there is a tantalizing glimpse of PeteW’s latest creation in the background of the French Artillery take the high ground pic.

It has been written that history is written by the victors, so it is fitting that I post (or is that boast?) about the French victory in the Southern Highlands.

The combined might of the Prussians, the Redcoats and the Northerners, despite a healthy margin in brikwars points was no match for the glorious First and Second Brigades of the Grand Armie of the South Pacifique who were able to safely inter their fallen General in the grounds of the castle.

The Redcoat castle turned out to be the ancestral home of the Fallen French General.
   The Redcoat castle.

Marshall Legeaux’s First Brigade
   The first brigade at the Arc de Petite Triomphe
   Marshall Legeaux’s First Brigade emerged from the desert in the south, and immediately dispatched the cuiraisser squadron to engage the Prussians to the west, while the artillery took the high ground to the east, and the Pacifique Guard marched resolutely forward.
   The French Artillery takes the high ground

The cuirassers fell, but all but destroyed the Prussian cavalry, and severely depleted the infantry.
   The remaining Prussians advance on the French line.

The Redcoats tried to desecrate the body of the fallen French General.
   The Redcoats tried to desecrate the body of the fallen French General.
 
Marshall Lachlan’s Hussars vanquish the Northerner cavalry.
   Marshall Lachlan’s second brigade, entered at double time from the east, engaging the northerners and the redcoats on two fronts, the Hussar’s tearing throught the northerners, and the Voltigeurs hitting the redcoats.


The Redcoats in the castle were eliminated by the Pacifique Guard in a display of expert musketry.


The French take the castle, and offer terms.
   The Prussian infantry made a valiant stand against the Pacifique Guard (who had mastered the art of tactical ‘reverse marching’), before the French Capitaine offered them favourable terms (throw down your weapons and go home).
   The Prussians, defeated, leave the field.

Lessons will be learned from this battle. Fortune does favour the bold. And also the well armoured. And those with lots of muskets.



Robb wrote:
  
   I will post a date for a LEGO get-together/Brikwars day at Maraylya soon. It
will be nice to return the hospitality and (hopefully) win a battle on
“homeground”.

Sounds cool. By then I may have made an heretical purchase or two to provide a 1960s PLAF(VC) foe for the MB Air Cav...


Does indeed sound cool.

Cheers

Richie Dulin



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  Re: A French Victory! (was Re: The game's afoot!)
 
Hi all, have been away since the fest but am back in possession of my online (...) (snip worthy if heinously French telling of the terrible battle :-) I think next time we Allied forces might better appreciate the very Napoleonic principle of (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, FTX)

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