Tactica - Pictures

What a weekend!

I'm really happy to say that the Tactica Wargames Show was a great success for us and our presentation. We did not expect that much feedback and are completely overwhelmed!

Thanks to everyone who came around to talk and play with us!

See you next year!

Tactica 2012 - Games & Presentations

Tactica 2012 - Workshops, Merchants & Exhibition

...Up, Up and Away!

Tomorrow (at about 5 am) we'll be heading towards Hamburg, the "Tactica Wargames Show" has finally come!

I would be lying if I'd say we are not totally exited about it, since this will be the first time, our project will be shown (and hopefully played!) to others.

So if you are at the Tactica this weekend, feel free to come around and have a chat or play with us!

See you!

... getting close (update)

Only two weeks until the Hamburg Tactica opens its gates.

Fortunately, there are just some small things to be done, like painting the walls and modelling the trees. With the majority of the work already completed by the end of last year, we will finish in time.

All of you who are lucky to visit the Tactica, be sure to stop by, we are looking forward to meeting you!

So here are some quick pics of today's work:

Update: We've almost finished most of our work - the small town of Mollwitz slowly grows:

Cheers,

Thomas

Happy Birthday, Milord!

Today we celebrate the 300st birthday of  Frederick the Great of Prussia!

To honor this anniversary in an adequate way, there are celebrations across the whole year in Berlin and Potsdam.

Though we will not be able to visit Sanssouci (his highness' former summer palace) until summer, we recommend everyone to stop by there.

More information can be found here: http://friedrich300.eu/

Rehersal Battle Report

This is the battle report of our rehersal-game we had two days ago.

The break of April 10th in 1741. The prussian and austrian armys march onto the battlefield. Even some spectacors have arrived and watch the battle from the windmill hill near Mollwitz.

The battle is about to begin

Spectators have arrived near Mollwitz

At about 2:00 PM the prussian army has finished moving in formation and the heavy artillery opens fire on the austrians' left flank.

The pussians advance

While the rest of the army is struggling to get into battle formation, fieldmarshall von Römer leads his cavalry on the left flank to attack the prussian grenadiers on the weak right flank.

Von Römer starts the cavalry attack

But with the combined force of servaral defending prussian untis, the attack is driven back!

The rest of the austrians still has not gotten into formation

Von Römer rallys his troops and starts another charge at the prussians - this time he manages to drive back the defenders.

Von Römers' 2nd attack on the prussians' right wing

The prussian king now has a serious issue with the austrian heavy cavalry in his flank. They have to be defeatet on any price, so he orders the right half of the central battleline to pan over to the right and open fire on the austrians.

Prussians try to fight back the cuirassiers

While the center of the austrian army still has not managed to form a proper battle line, the right cavalry wing starts an assault on the prussian center but struggles in the heavy defensive fire.

The austrian attack the prussian center

Though the cavalry suffers heavy losses from the prussians, the Infantry flees behind the second row of the prussian battle line. On the left wing the austrians have sucessfully defeatet the entire right wing of the prussians and take on the remaining infanrty units, wich are commanded by the king, Friedrich, himself.

The prussians slowly get in trouble

And commanded by their great leader, the infantry manages to stand firm agains the raging cuirassiers! The remaining troops of the austrians' left wing fall back.

Friedrich drives back the cavalry on the right wing

Now the prussian counterattack gathers momentum

Meanwhile, on the other side of the battlefield, the prussian cavalry has crossed the river and attacks the austrian battleline from behind!

Poor austrians: they are attacked in the rear!

The infantry, now surrounded by enemys, cannot stand this for long and flees off the battlefied.

The austrians desperatly try to rally their troops

Now the momentum of battle seems to be on the prussians' side. The manage to re-order their line of battle and advance towards the remaining austrian units.

The decisive battle is at hand

But the austrians manage to rally their troops and prepare themselfs for the last assault.

Both sides start the last assault

At about 7:00 PM both battlelines clash against each other and the prussian advance gets stuck, as its left wing is wiped out by the defending austrians.

The austrians manage to get out of a tight spot

At 7:30 PM both armys still stand on the field of battle, but meanwhile it is too dark to continue fighting.
Both sides have lost more than half of their troops, and it is not possible to tell who won the battle. It's a draw!

Battle is over - it's a draw!

Rehersal

thanks to Christian, Christian and Olly, yesterday we had our rehersal for the presentation.We all had a lot of fun and learned a lot of important things wich will help us to make a better presentation on the Tactica in Hamburg.

A load of pictures will be online, as soon as I get to sort them out, wich I will hopefully do on the weekend.

Austrian cavalry attack

Stay tuned,
Thomas

Pro Gloria et Patria

Ladies and Gents, we are proud to announce the presentation of our "Mollwitz-Project" at the Hamburg Tactica 2012! We are really looking forward to nice games and talkings, so be sure to stop by.