HB Castiglione 2v2

[Grognard]_Cosak a écrit:Le replay tactique :

Stilgar a écrit:With Ramel rather passive in the Aus center and left, and Cosak's isolated attack on the right in the opening, I suggested Sigizmund to shift some of my troops to the hill and try to quench the French attack on the right sooner rather then later, and also reinforce the hill defenses, which were running thin with Sigizmund sending most of his men fight to the right of the castle. He refused and I feel this brought to higher losses among his men and weakened our defenses on the hill. I sent some reinforcements from very start of the battle but they had limited impact. As for the assault of the hill, we managed to defeat the first attack wave, but were running out of infantry. As a result I sent two cavalry units in a counterattack, but both had very little impact and in the end died needlessly to fire in melee bug. Admittedly, I charged them through some trees, that slowed them down and made the effect of FIM decisive.

However, the key moment of the battle came when we managed to stabilize our right flank and defeat the French column that descended from the hill. At that moment, the Austrians had to either (i) leave the guns and try to press their advantage and perhaps destroy what was the French center or (ii) promptly retreat to the hill and form a new defensive line along, before arrival of the French reinforcements (Aus had most arty still up and running!). Sigizmund tried to press the advantage, but I neither supported him properly nor insisted on a full retreat to the hill (how very Austrian of me , lol). The momentum was soon lost and the rest was the history.

Still, all those tactical mistakes and breakthroughs made for a good battle.