The French forces advanced quite quickly to catch the Austrian before they could straighten up their line. You can see a French cavalry brigade in the bottom of the picture and
an Austrian mixed brigade with attached artillery advancing past the tree line.
Also on the French bases, you can see on the back of each base, the different colours used to identify each brigade.
The Austrian flank crumbles
The French on the same flank have attacked the Austrians forcing them to fall back. The mixed brigade lost the combat
and bounced back through the units behind, causing hits on those as well. We forgot to leave gaps for units falling back
from combat and fresh Austrian units behind suffered a casualty each.
Meanwhile on the other flank
The French and Austrians face off. The Austrians are reluctant to advance until the command next (outside of picture but at the bottom) get off defend orders! The French realise
they are out numbered so that arent keen to attack either.
The Prussians command with a mix of Landwehr and Line infantry wait for the French. The Allied turn came next and the Prussians advanced to cover the flank of the Austrians (in
the top of the picture).
Prussians and French fight in the middle
The Prussians advanced and are engaging the French line. At this point of the game we were fighting along most of the line except for the Austrain right flank of course!
Mid game from the French players side
A wider view of the action from the French players side. In the bottom of the picture you can see the French heavy cavalry reserve moving up into the gap in the French line.
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