BF&S: Fight for the village AAR

[Anatoli]

Looking through the By Fire & Sword lists I had noted that you can run a skirmish force solely made up of Volunteer cavalry. This seemed like one of those bad ideas that may be fun to try out, the units of Volunteers attached to the Polish skirmish force had never really made an impact. Still the units are very cheap in points, and you get a whole lot of them, on the downside all units are "Insubordinate" and require twice the amount of command points to take orders - and you only get a single commander - not really that awesome... I used some of my cossack style cavalry proxy as Volunteer cavalry in this game, since I was a couple bases short (though I realized later that I had forgotten 6 bases of volunteers at the back end of by miniature cabinet so the ratio of real Volunteer cavalry could have been greater).

Still this is what I ran against Andreas Swedes:

Volunteer skirmish force: 5FSP
Colonel with 4 command points
18 bases of Volunteer cavalry

Andreas ran the Swedish detachment at 7FSP with:

Colonel  with 3 command points
4 bases of Mercenary Reiters
2 bases of veteran Mercenary Reiters
6 bases of New type Musketeers
1 3pdr regimental gun

I rolled for scenarios, being the defender, and came up with attack on the village as the scenario where I would perhaps have the most success.

Check the blog for the full AAR and more pics:

http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.se/2013/07/bf-fight-for-village-aar.html