Seven Years' War - Prussia versus Austria

A Sunday morning gaming slot. I suggested Stephen get his SYW collection out for another dust up.

He's tweaked the rules a bit since last time - restricting command ranges and making it a bit harder to let rip with all guns than in our last game.

I took the Austrians and he had the Prussians.

The Austrian left flank - held by Dragoons.

My centre assorted Russians and Hungarians in Austrian service.

And the right - with the Cuirassiers at the ready.

Beastly Hanoverians

And the forces of Prussia

The Hanoverians advanced into a storm of shot

The Prussian heavy cavalry took on the dragoons.

Whilst on the right it was Hussars against the Austrian Cuirassiers.

The Prussian forces struggled into line

Despite one failed attempt the Grenadiers came to the rescue of the Dragoons

In my centre the Russians came under heavy fire.

The grenadiers having dealt with the Prussian heavies turned toward the advancing Prussian line

The Hungarians dithered.

But the cannon drove off more Prussian line

The Hanoverians clung on grimly

The Austrian dragoons managed to get on the end of the Prussian line.

Despite pressure on the rest of the Prussian forces the grenadiers were determined to strike home and ploughed into the Russians.

Destroying them!
The Hungarians turned to face the threat.

Still the damnable Hanoverian hung around.

The Prussian Grenadiers gave fire

But their counterparts were closing in from the rear

Finally the Hanoverians were vanquished

And with the Austrian heavy cavalry on the way with Prussians ceded the field.

That was jolly good fun. The rules work well for us and Stephen's two armies look splendid.

Whenever we get them out I'm tempted to buy some of my own - but so far I'm remaining strong

Warhammer: Ogres v. Dwarfs

After a bit of a gap (work, life, stuff) Stephen and I got together for some Warhammer.

8th edition, 2400 points Ogres v. Dwarfs Dawn attack.

My rolls for deployment resulted in most of my army being where I wanted it - in the middle.

The Dwarfs ended up a little castled on their left flank.

I decided I'd try and ignore/slow down the Dwarfs on my right and concentrate on taking out the Ironbreakers and slayers on my left. Hoping I could get enough of a lead before the Dwarf Lord and his hammerers manged to waddle over and get involved.

I sent the Mournfangs off on a bit of a suicide mission to hold up the Dwarf left.

While everything else zoomed forward.

The Mournfangs soon ran into (and over) the Dwarf warriors.

While the Bulls found the Trollslayers a bit chewy...

The Ironguts faced off with the Ironbreakers.

Sadly my carefully laid plan went awry when it turned out Ironbreakers are really hard (and I failed to get spells off that might have helped)

The Trollslayers too saw off some Bulls

Over on my right Cuddles was delaying some crossbows.

While the much reduced Mournfangs stared down the barrels of a load of Irondrakes.

The Ironbreakers had another go at the Bulls - with similar results.

And then I forgot to take many more pictures.

The Ironbreakers went on to deal with the Leadbelchers (who had shot down the remaining Slayers) so that just left the Ironguts - and although they were still a potent unit they were not going to win me the game.

Comprehensive Dwarf victory. The Ogre list is pretty hard, but the (late in the edition) Dwarf book feels like a very tough nut to crack. Everything has multiple high saves, so it's a struggle to put them down in enough quantities to win fights.

Great to get the square based toys out again. Hurrah for Warhammer.