First game of the year: Napoleonics Peninsula War
First game of the year was a simple grid-based Napoleonics game. The scenario was an ambush on a French column escorting a siege artillery train: the French had to exit the board with the artillery train before the game ended, and the Spanish had to stop them. Think of it as a moving ambush. The set-up had us, playing as the Spanish, rushing to get into position to block the passage of the French siege train. We threw our infantry into march column and rushed to get to the high ground overlooking the road in the valley. The French at the far end of the board had the advantage of occupying the strongpoint of the town, and our initial discussions on the Spanish side focused on how we might take the town (the conclusion: with great difficulty). After setting up overlooking the valley and the road that the siege artillery train would have to pass through, we sent our cavalry ahead to clear the French volitgeurs on the heights opposing us. Though we took a bit of a beating from the light in...
