28mm AWI MAURICE CAMPAIGN GAME 7 – BATTLE OF EVA’S LIVERY

On Tuesday Dave Paterson and I played out the 7th game in our Maurice AWI campaign – the  Battle for Eva’s Livery.   Here are the forces for this game.

PATRIOT

2 ELITE REGULAR INFANTRY       
4 TRAINED REGULAR INFANTRY
6 CONSCRIPT REGULAR INFANTRY
2 TRAINED REGULAR CAVALRY
2 ARTILLERY
2 IRREG INFANTRY
National advantages
OBLIQUE ORDER
Army Morale 16

Patriot army deployed

BRITISH

2 TRAINED REGULAR INFANTRY
6 CONSCRIPT REGULAR INFANTRY
1 CONSCRIPT REGULAR CAVALRY
3 ARTILLERY
1 IRREG INFANTRY
National advantages
OBLIQUE ORDER, RALLY TO THE COLOURS, A LA BAYONETTE
Notable Reverend Whitehead
Army Morale 12

Advanced Rules in use – Oblique Order, Light artillery, All Guns bombard, Honours of War

This time I won the scouting role and decided to be the defender – I think now that was a mistake.   Dave as the attacker took an additional unit of regular infantry for his mercenary supplement to boost his very weak infantry.

 I deployed my infantry in 2 lines across the table, my 2 guns in the centre left, the cavalry were in reserve behind the centre and the irregulars were positioned in woods on the left flank.  I also placed a conscript unit in the town objective – another mistake.

Patriot attack on British centre right underway

Dave deployed his 3 trained infantry plus a conscript unit in columns on his left, with the remainder of the army in the centre and right.   His cavalry were deployed behind his centre with his irregular infantry garrisoning Eva’s Livery.

Hessians and Legion cavalry await action

At the start of the game Dave moved some of his left flank  infantry thru the wooded hill which dominated his left flank of the table and formed them facing towards my flank if I advanced on his centre.  However this move split his command so I decided to attack the troops all along his line with an advance by my 11 regular infantry units and my 2 guns.  However the woods in the middle of the table also split my attackers into 2 forces.   Dave’s left wing of 4 units decisively beat my right wing of 5 units breaking 4 of them including one of my elites.  The decisive factor here was the intervention of the Reverend Whitehead who repeatedly inspired the British to march and rally.  My attack on his centre left proved a hard struggle and my units firing was not up to standard.  However I did weaken his troops enough that a gallant charge broke 3 of his units but I was also taking losses.  Dave threw his conscript cavalry into the fight and they broke one of my victorious militia infantry units – that loss broke my army.

Patriot right wing in trouble - 2 units already broken

When my army broke I had lost 7 units and Dave 6 units including all 3 of his guns.  It was a decisive British victory with 3 epic points won.  Once again my irregulars and cavalry played no part in the action.    My prediction last time that that the Patriot’s could well win this year’s campaign this week proved illusory.

All the photos from the campaign with descriptions are on flickr at

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bill26048/sets/72157635546751824/