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The work that required the forum closure has now been carried out and it has been reopened. Those who were being blocked by corporate firewalls will not yet be able to post – but we’re halfway to resolving this now.

Updated:

All forum work should now be finished. Just follow the updated link. The database has been restored to as it was on circa 15th August; a few posts and/or threads etc. added while the changeover was taking place will have been trimmed. Apologies for this (and the maintenance time in general) but it was necessary.

Those who were blocked access to the forum from their workplace etc. – you should now be able to access it without any issue but, as ever, please notify me of any major problems.

Temporary Forum Closure

Unfortunately the discussion forum has been temporarily closed; there are a number of users who have been unable to access the new forum due to corporate firewalls blocking non-port 80 traffic. I am currently working on a work-around and will re-open the forum as soon as humanely possible.

Thanks for you patience.

Austerlitz 2005

The Attack on the Pratzenberg Heights pitted Soult’s two main attack divisions upon the Allied held Pratzenberg and Stare-Vinhorady. The game was played on a 12 foot table with ten players and numerous battalions!

The game started in true Austerlitz form with both St Hilaire and Vandamme charging straight into “La feu”! St Hilaire’s men stormed the Praztenberg in style despite vigorous attention from Kollowrath's Russian artillery. Heavy casualties and the loss of one brigade did not prevent St Hilaire taking the Russian gun line and cresting the Pratzenberg. Austrian reinforcements sent in piecemeal were soundly despatched as St Hilaire now turned left and slowly but surely rolled up the Allied flank.

However Vandamme’s brigades initiated their attacks in clumsy columnar formations with no preliminary skirmisher or artillery support and soon fell foul of Austrian artillery, at one stage even being outnumbered by allied skirmishers! French attacks stalled as ever increasing casualties forced the deployment of both skirmishers and linear formations. This lull allowed the allied command to initiate a flanking manoeuvre, which the subsequent French attack literally walked straight into as they closed upon Stare-Vinhorady. Two out of three French bridges were utterly broken by the allied fire and sent tumbling back down the slope.

The arrival of the both Imperial Guards saw Russian grenadier attacks upon the village of Prazte bloodied and checked by Vandamme’s remaining brigade, now supported Drouet's men. The guard cavalry of both emperors clashed on the Pratzenberg and despite the French Horse Grenadiers literally ridding over the first wave of Russian chevalier guards, the greater Russian numbers told and eventually the French guard horse were forced back down the slope.

The defeats suffered at Stare-Vinhorady (the allies had literally swept Vandamme’s broken brigades from the field) and at the hands of the Russian cavalry meant the French, despite St Hilaire’s gallant advance, were too exhausted to launch further attacks to secure entire Pratzenberg, and the allies claimed victory! (Orbats to follow.)

Welcome to General de Brigade

Welcome to the relaunched General de Brigade site.

The new format provides for far more regular updates on rules, games, photos and events.

The forums will change slightly in that all rules will be catered for under the one forum site. So please post all threads relating to General de Brigade, British Grenadier, Guns at Gettysburg & Battlegroup PanzerGrenadier on the new forum. (It just makes it easier running one rather than many disparate sites!). All the old orbats and threads should also be accessible eventually.

Waterloo 2002 Gallery

Click the thumbnail below to launch the Waterloo 2002 gallery!

FAQ

FOR 15MM FIGURES:

• DIVISIONAL GENERAL – 40mm x 40 mm – two to four figures.
• BRIGADE GENERAL – 30mm wide x 35mm deep – one or two figures.

Unit Frontages:

• CAVALRY – 10mm-12mm per figure mounted in pairs, threes or even fours.
  Single rank.
• ARTILLERY – 30mm-40mm per model gun. One gun per base crewed by
  four figures
• SKIRMISHERS – 12mm-15mm per figure. Single rank.

FOR 25MM FIGURES:

• DIVISIONAL GENERAL – 70mm to 100mm x 70mm to 100mm – two to four figures.
• BRIGADE GENERAL – 45mm wide x 50mm deep – one or two figures.

Unit Frontages:

• INFANTRY – 15mm per figure mounted in two ranks with either one or two companies to a base. Most players use either six or eight figure bases.
• CAVALRY – 20mm per figure mounted in pairs, threes or even fours. Single rank.
• ARTILLERY – 50mm-60mm per model gun. One gun per base crewed by four figures.
• SKIRMISHERS – 20-30mm per figure. Single rank.
• NB: Larger frontages of up to 1mm-2mm extra per figure are okay if the figures are a tight squeeze on the base

UNIT DEPTHS:

Kept to minimum, allowing enough room for the figures to sit adequately. (Depths on wargames figures are way out of scale compared to the frontages anyway. So I wouldn’t worry too much!)

Purchase and Contact Information

Where to Buy:

Caliver Books

CALIVER BOOKS
816-818 LONDON RD
LEIGH ON SEA
ESSEX SS9 3NH
Tel & Fax 01702 73986

The rules publisher's website. £12.50 plus £1.50 UK, £2.50 worldwide p+p

Contact:

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