Thursday Night Black Powder

Well a better game was finished tonight - French assaulting 3 Brigades of Russians in a rear guard action that the French won. Stamina levels of 5 allowed us to work through the rules a little better this time, still a few mistakes. but they are getting. Some ideas about having all infantry and artillery steady for the first break tests perhaps even the second if elite. This allows for units to play a little longer , although my break test rolls would have made better command rolls. We also generally let a side go through its entire phase rolling for command. Finally started using the shaken rules properly. Still shaky on phasing with moving skirmishers next to Enemy Cavalry. I think infantry movement with 12 or 6 inches of enemy cavalry should trigger an out of phase opportunity charge.

Initial success by the Russian Cavalry was depleted as its one large manuever brigade of Infantry was broken by French artillery and Infantry Charges. We had several drawn cavalry melees.

And bombarding a BUA with Horse Artillery just doesnt work.