The Battle of Leuthen - Scenario and AAR

[Aethelflaeda was framed]

Every time I see Leuthen on the table, i remember my first intro to 7YW gaming about 30 years ago.  I had not really paid much attention to the period and had only just started Napoleonic gaming but it was at a con and the guy setting up the game was having difficulty getting someone to play…so what the hell, he gave me the Prussians and took the Austrians and the troops looked pretty.  He quickly explained the rules (which enabled me to grok that Prussian infantry could move and face a flank by 90 degree turns faster than Austrians. 

We had a hidden ahistorical setup (i am not even sure it was a historical refight of a particular battle) using note cards with some dummies, and some guidance that i had to put cards down over the whole of the front.  I put every dummy card allowed on the left flank, some weak troops in the center, and basically piled everything into the right flank.  My Austrian opponent had a balanced line across the whole front, with a small central reserve.  He, the Austrian player, was a bit off put when we revealed the cards and actually put troops on the table and saw what i had done…seemed i had, in my ignorance, done exactly as Fred the Great had done at Leuthen!  The battle was not pretty as my forces just steamrollered down a hook onto his flank from the first turn on.  My greatest miniatures moment ever and the host complimented me for channeling Freddy so well.  He certainly hadn’t pulled punches.

[Jemima Fawr]

Superb!