Waterloo

It's been almost two weeks since I posted here!

I have been managing a small amount of gaming. It's mostly been Memoir '44 because, at the moment, I find I am enjoy playing a lot of Memoir '44. But otherwise a combination of family, illness and a slight promotion at work have contrived to keep me too busy to manage much else in the way of gaming.

However last night being the 210th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, Catherine and I had a couple of games of W1815. We each had a go at playing as Napoleon and Wellington, and I can report that I lost both games. 

In the first my Allies were bombarded by the Grand Battery and simply couldn't shift it. Attempts to relive Wellington with the Prussians were stymied by the energetic Lobau. Allied morale quickly collapsed and the French scored an easy win.

In the second game an energetic French attack scored plenty of successes, but at the cost of considerable casualties. With the Allied morale looking wobbly I took a gamble of ignoring the Prussians and went for one last push against the Allied line instead. It didn't work and the Prussians capturing Plancenoit put paid to the French army.