Napoleonic's: Campaign Gear-up

This week we played The Wayward Cannoneers scenario I trialled a while back as we built up towards starting a campaign. 

I opted to leave out any line infantry from my force and went with a skirmisher heavy composition. This had the advantage of meaning all my troops moved a minimum of 5" rather than 4" and all apart from the cavalry would not be slowed down by fences or rough ground. I included the cavalry as a counter-measure against the French Hussars that Mr T had been playing, though in the end he did not field any.

1 * Light Officer

2 * 6 Light Infantry (Sharpshooter)

1 * 4 Riflemen

1 * Guerrilla Leader

2 * 8 Maquisards

1 * Light Cav Officer

1 * 8 Cav

The French opted to use dismounted Dragoons instead of the Hussars alongside their normal compliment of line infantry and Voltigeurs. 

The idea for the campaign is a simple one based around the achieving of extra objectives over the course of the games. I've not decided 100% but I think we will be drawing two objectives and then deciding which one we want to try and achieve. Winning the battle will give you 1 VP and completing the bonus objective will also give 1 VP. Below is the list of objectives I've drawn up, most are centred around the leader of the force. 

The overall framework for the campaign will be a series of actions being undertaken by the scouting forces of two encamped armies who aren't yet ready to undertake a pitched engagement. The actual scenarios will be decided on a week by week basis with us both hopefully coming up with something interesting as we go along.

In the game we played I managed to secure the right hand cannoneer by dashing my cavalry forwards and then beating a retreat whilst the French did much the same on the British left with their Voltigeurs.  

The British cavalry managed a round of fire followed by a charge into the French Grenadiers which caused heavy French losses. They they suffered heavy casualties from French fire and the remaining men fled the field.

In the middle both sides moved forwards with the British Lights causing heavy losses to the Fusiliers but that was not enough to stop the Dragoons escorting their prisoner to the cannon and taking control of it and securing the victory for the Emperors men.