Game 140 : Leipzig 1813 Southern Front

 Its been a while since I've done the blog, I blame growing older, but laziness might also have a bearing! A new hip, a crown disintegrating and so a new implant, Anne retiring fully, are all part of my excuses. But back to the battles. 11 of us fought the battle over the week, me only 3 weeks into the hip recovery (I'm a hero he says). The battle did last all week, always a bonus!!

So to the battle. I've kept the captions to major actions, lots of figures in each shot. 

The pic above shows the French lines, their left flank at the top and the centre to just starting their right flank. This is a major French assault along the line. Already, the central village is going to be the focus for both sides. 

The above is the French Right Flank where another major assault is being launched. This battle, like most of the others, took days to resolve and were tense to say the least. 

This is a pic from the Allied side in the centre. Just to the left of the central village, the Allies counter-attack with the Austrian Reserve Cavalry, mainly Cuirassiers. The counter-attack did not break through, but it did exhaust the first French major assault in the centre.

The French have committed large numbers to attack the central village. The Allies are marshalling their own infantry in the centre to repulse this attack. Most of these troops are from the Russian Guard.

This shot is to the left of the previous one. It shows the French right flank assault about to met by roughly equal numbers of Allies, mainly Austrians.

This is a pic of my command. Nearer the door and where I can put a seat so I can rest my hip!. The Prussians are attacking the French left. It was a grind all week, any successes, not many of them, paid for dearly. What it did achieve was the committing of French Guard Reserves to stabilise and then counter-attack, taking away potential pressure from the Allied centre. That's my claim anyway!! 

 This is the "impasse" shot in the centre after about 3 French attacks were driven away. Neither side broke but losses had mounted and both sides were frantically trying to regroup and refit. At this point the game came to a close. The result was generally historical, a tactical draw, but a strategic problem for the French.

The above shows all the heroic Generals. A good time was had and the plan is repeat this each year as we call it "Herbert's week" in memory of a dear lost friend.

The battle losses are are below. I'm experiencing formatting problems in trying to enter text after inserting this data, so it's at the end where I can then relax. Note the severity of losses. Anything approaching 30% is roughly combat knackered!!!

French Formations	Losses %			Allied Formations	Losses%
	Infantry	Cavalry	Artillery		Infantry	Cavalry	Artillery
1st Young Guard : Oudinot				Wing Cavalry : Pahlen	-	17	0
Pacthod	4	-	42	Wing Cossacks : Platov	-	23	-
Decouz	9	-	22
				1st Corps : Gorchakov
2nd Young Guard : Mortier				Mezentov	23	-	-
Barrois	3	-	0	Helfreich	23	-	-
Roguet	0	-	0	1st Corps Artillery	-	-	32
Old Guard				2nd Corps : Wurttemberg
Friant	0	-	0	Schachafskoy	32	-	-
Curial	15	-	38	Puschnitski	6	-	-
Dulaulov	-	-	31	2nd Corps Artillery	-	-	19
Guard Cav Corps : Nansouty				3rd Corps : Raevski
LeFebvre-Desnouettes	-	20	21	Pissarev	9	-	-
Ornano	-	35	67	Tchoglokov	24	-	-
Walther	-	0	0	3rd Corps Artillery	-	-	0
II Corps : Victor				5th Corps : Yermolov
Dubreton	16	-	0	Rosen	15	-	-
Dufour	13	-	47	Udom	15	-	-
Vial	25	-	69	Alvensleben	0	-	-
II Corps Res Artillery	-	-	6	5th Corps Artillery	-	-	6
V Corps : Lauriston				Guard Cavalry : Gallitzin
Albert	34	-	3	Depreradovich	-	0	0
Maison	21	-	28	Kretov	-	0	0
Rochambeau	17	-	19	Duka	-	11	8
IV Corps Artillery	-	-	11	Chevich	-	0	21
V Corps Cavalry	-	58	0
				2nd Korps : Meerveldt
IX Corps : Augereau				Lederer	29	25	13
Tharreau	35	-	31	Liechtenstein	2	-	0
Semele	37	-	25	2nd Korps Artillery	-	-	14
Dombrowski	1	32	13	4th Korps : Klenau
				Mohr	0	49	21
I Cav Corps: Latour Maubourg				Bartenstein	16	-	100
Berkheim	-	5	17	Mayer	21	37	0
Corbineau	-	68	38	4th Korps Artillery	-	-	46
Chastel	-	37	0
Bourdesoulle	-	23	100	Res Korps : Hesse-Homburg
Doumerc	-	15	54	Weissenhof	6	-	13
				Bianchi	10	-	31
II Cav Corps : Sebastiani				Nostitz	-	24	54
D’Hurbal	-	27	8
Exelmann	-	14	13	2nd Corps : Kleist (P)
St Germain	-	23	46	Klux	30	100	38
				Pirch	6	0	9
IV Cav Corps : Sokolnicki				Ziethen	12	17	6
Tolinksi	-	19	29	Preussen	4	32	44
Sulkowski	-	58	0	Roder	-	26	31
				2nd Corps Artillery	-	-	0
V Cav Corps : Pajol
Pire	-	56	42
L’Heritier	-	6	29
Milhaud	-	4	29