A skirmish near the Berezina

[Patrice]

A skirmish near the Berezina in 1812, played last Sunday at LudOcean games festival in Clohars-Carnoët / Kloar-Karnoed (Brittany). There were many very different gaming activities in all parts of the village, we had the privilege to play in the city hall.



There was a GM and six players (three on each side). Ruleset: Argad Napoleonic extension. The retreating French had to cross the table. The small stream in the middle was not the Berezina but another river.

...And some players had different, secret, informations. One of the French was escorting Napoleon disguised as an officer (this explains the large number of elite Guard units on the French right). Another French player (me!) leading a large group of half-frozen soldiers wanted to get off table with a French female comedian of the Moscow theatre. On the Russian side, one officer wanted to catch this comedian because a member of the Tsar family loved her. Another one wanted to kill all Frenchmen because his sister had been badly mistreated (the kind of motivations you can read in literary works of this time).











More pictures in these two AARs in French, one written by the GM, the other one by a player ...I'm not sure online translators can handle this well, there's a number of mild slang words for realism.

https://www.anargader.net/t3811-coup-de-froid-sur-isbaskaia#35282

https://euthanasor-wargamesetmodelisme.blogspot.com/2024/04/compte-rendu-de-partie-argad-1er-empire.html