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Miniatures Adventure => Age of the Big Battalions => Topic started by: ChrisBBB on July 02, 2025, 08:45:11 AM

Title: Multi-day battle generates lots of interesting decisions
Post by: ChrisBBB on July 02, 2025, 08:45:11 AM

Six of us had a splendid time on Sunday fighting the three-day battle of Pered (1849), which gave the players plenty of major decisions to make.
I like to think of this as "Hungary's Waterloo" as there are so many parallels: basically, the Hungarians are trying to beat the Austrian army before the Russians can turn up to save them.
Full photo-AAR on the BBBBlog:
https://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.com/2025/07/decisions-decisions-players-gambles-pay.html

Title: Re: Multi-day battle generates lots of interesting decisions
Post by: Freddy on July 02, 2025, 07:22:13 PM

Nice :)

The first significant use of military railways were the 1848 Austrian reinforcements sent to Hungary after the defeat of Jellasich at Pákozd. The Pest-Szolnok railway line also played a major role in the Hungarian evacuation of Buda-Pest; and the Hungarian National Guard organization was made from the beginning by steam transport in mind, HQs were located in the ends of that Pest-Szolnok line (note that Pest is on the Danube, Szolnok on the Tisza, the two biggest rivers of Hungary).

Title: Re: Multi-day battle generates lots of interesting decisions
Post by: ChrisBBB on July 03, 2025, 09:32:52 AM

Good point, Freddy. Different episodes, same war.