Last week
Maurizio and Franco B. played a match as part of the internal tournament that
involved some mates of my club. The game followed the rules written by Paolo M.
for Italian Independence wars.
The
game was hard fought and score system is easy: 1 point for each unit of the
enemy destroyed, 2 points for the player who controls at the end of the game
the green field in the center.
Miniatures are not painted by
me: Cacciatori delle Alpi (the units on the right in the photos below) prepared
by Franco B.; Papal troops prepared by Alberto M. and Franco B.
The Papal Army fought during
the first Italian Independence wars under the command of the general Giovanni
Durando. At the beginning of the war the Pope send a division under the command
of this strange man (he was a mercenary) to help Piedmontese forces but, after
some weeks, he changed idea asking to Durando to come back. The general refused
to obey but his partecipation to the struggle was marginal. The division
retreated to Treviso in a disorder way after a single struggle against the
Austrians
After the initial deployment
the Cacciatori take the control of the hill while Maurizio deploy a unit in
assault column on the right
The remaining forces of each
army arrive on the field
Franco decides to guarantee
the obj using a unit of bersaglieri as screen
In the meanwhile the
Cacciatori reinforce their presence on the obj
Maurizio launches his forces
against Franco and push back part of his units out of the obj
The fight becomes hard … the
Cacciatori suffers some losses
Franco regains the obj and
Maurizio sends one of his unit in the deep of Franco’s formation to destroy one
of his unit but …
… in this way the Bersaglieri
can attack on the flank Maurizio’s soldiers and destroy them
Some details of the fight on
the Pope’s force left wing
Attacks of the final turn and ...
... the position of the units at the end of 9th turn
The final score is a draw: 2 points to have reached the obj + 2 enemy units destroyed for Franco - 4 enemy units destroyed for Maurizio
