{"id":8068,"date":"2018-07-18T11:53:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T11:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=8068"},"modified":"2018-07-18T11:53:18","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T11:53:18","slug":"duncans-napoleonic-game-with-combat-patrol-at-historicon-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=8068","title":{"rendered":"Duncan’s Napoleonic Game with Combat Patrol at Historicon 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“On Friday afternoon I ran ‘Welcome to Sunny Spain,’ a Peninsular War convoy ambush using Combat Patrol: Napoleonic Supplement.<\/div>\n
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“The game starts with the French convoy warily entering the town. Bill Mollineaux had the lead infantry, a new player (forgot his name:( ) had the cavalry, and Robert, who played Dave’s Zulu game and wanted more CP, played the infantry in the rear. There was a guerillo band, divided into three groups of six, controlled by Jeff Kimmel of the Rogues, a platoon of Cacadores (2 sections of 8) controlled by Terry (one of my groupies) blocking the road ahead, and a platoon of Portuguese light infantry\u00a0(2 sections of 8), controlled by Mike waiting to close in behind the convoy after the trap was sprung.<\/div>\n
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“Things were quiet until the Guerillos card came up, then the French forward contingent moves out to clear the way.<\/div>\n
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“The new player, due to his inexperience, thought that this six man cavalry troop could clear eight elite cacadores out of the woods by charging them. It didn’t work very well.<\/div>\n
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“Bill brought up his infantry platoon to try and clear the way ahead by defeating Terry’s cacadores. He was repeatedly undone by morale checks that went very badly for him while Terry’s had minimal effect.<\/div>\n
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“Meanwhile, Robert’s French infantry was using superior numbers to get the better of Mike’s Portuguese at the rear of the column, while sending a section to clear some buildings of guerillos.<\/div>\n
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“In desperation, hoping to finally put a bad morale result on Terry, Bill sent the French commander charged the woods.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“Despite having impetus and a better M value Bill lost the fight.<\/div>\n
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“Though at the end the French had just about won the rear and center fights, the cacadores were holding strong and it was far from certain that the whole remaining French could have driven them off over time. So we called it an Allied victory. Everybody seemed to have a good time.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n