BFaS Muscovite and Swedish patrols meet somewhere in West Carelia

[Olofeus]

Today I ran my new Muscovite skirmish group against my opponent.
My friend usually plays with poles, but today he choose to play a Swedish detachment of 13fsps.
My force strength was 8 points.

I rolled five dice for special effects and got a good day, choice of terrain, delayed two units ( 2 bases of musketeers an 2 bases of veteran reiters) and managed to cause panic on 4 bases of reiters.
Eventually those effects made my game quite easy.

I decided to take two of the scouting points and try to deny them from my opponent. He had placed 2 guns,2 bases of musketeers , 3 bases of dragoons and 2 bases of veteran reiters near the third objective along with his commander. I thought that was too much for my six bases servant cossacks and moved them away from the swedes.

In the end we caused heavy casualties on both sides, but I succeeded in keeping the swedes out from the other two objectives. On sixth turn we were locked in shooting contest in the middle of the board and i managed to scout the third point with my sub commander.

The Russians seemed to work better when they were painted. I scored a tactical victory.

Kiitos ja moi!

Samu

[Julfdi]

The effects were hard, yes.
The veteran reiters could not deploy as one squadron because of them.
Terrain change was not that bad.
Lack of musketeers was not that bad.
Panic of reiters in beginning was bad - I had on this flank only company of dragoons, major and the panicking reiters.
But this was also question of deployment - since I knew such effect was coming I left myself vulnerable by deploying only one heavy hitter on this side with a bad commander.
And I concnetrated too much on other side.

Using western cavalry after the Poles was painful, but military drill and defensive maneuvers for infantry and regimental guns almost made up for it.

[pocoloco]

Late to the party but any more games played after this?

Any tips for a possible beginner?

[Julfdi]

We have played two skirmishes after that - ambush and attack on the village - of which there are reports here: http://piikkimies.blogspot.fi/
Olofeus took pics which he might publish if any of them were decent.

General notes.
- get local superiority - advantage in dice and combat resolution is nice
- light cavalry is potentially very sneaky
- Poles and Swedes seem to me be the easier factions in skirmish- Swedes have discipline and firepower, Poles elite cav which combines nimbleness of light cav with shock attacks
- defending infantry in cover is really tough
- hills grant an advantage - and are a good place for defender to be

[pocoloco]

Hopefully we get to see pics soon 

It's not like I would need a new project but this has a certain appeal to me as a Finn 

[warburton]

Nice.