Battle of Torrente – Move 3

1000-1100 10 August 1813

  Table at the start of move 3

The Italian retreat has moved the centre of the battle to the north

Three squares have been removed at the bottom, and three added to the top

Top left – 4^th Spanish corps enter Torrente and deploy to the south

Centre – Italian corps are deploying between the farm and the northern hill

Bottom – 3^rd Spanish corps advancing towards the farm

  16^th Italian corps

General Severoli (Poor)

8 Command Points
Orders – move to Lerida road

Severoli has chosen to defend between the farm and the northern hill

He changes his orders to “deploy between the farm and the hill”

7^th brigade move 8” to form left of line

8^th brigade move 8” to occupy farm

6^th brigade move8” to form right of line

Artillery move 8” to form centre of line

Cavalry brigade move 16”to form extreme left flank

By moving first Severoli signals his new defence line to the Spanish

  4^th Spanish corps

General O’Donnell (Poor)

8 Command Points

Orders – move to Torrente

The Italian redeployment is obvious to O’Donnell
He issues new orders “move to north of Torrente”
16^th guerrilla brigade move 8” (double move) off hill towards main corps
Artillery limber and move 8” towards north of town
Commander moves to centre of corps
It will take a little time for O’Donnell to redeploy north of town

3^rd Spanish corps

General Rosche (Average)

6 Command Points
Orders – Move to farm

The Italian redeployment does not make any difference to Rosche

His corps is already under orders to move towards the farm

Artillery advance 8"

11^th brigade form column of attack from square and advance 8”

10^th brigade advance 8”

9^th brigade advance 16” (two CP)

Rosche moves to centre of corps

Game Notes

The guerrillas require two moves to move off the hill into the valley. 

This is because movement on hills is at half normal rate

Rule 5 covers movement in difficult terrain

It takes 3 CP for a Poor commander to change his corps orders, but only 2CP for an Average commander.
Rule 2 covers change of corps orders

The Spanish can have multiple moves because the Italian’s are now more than 16” away.
Rule 3 covers multiple moves

The Italian retreat has taken them to the northern edge of the table. 

The subsequent advance of 3^rd Spanish corps has taken them into the centre squares
As a result the top bottom three squares have been removed
The remainder have been moved down
Three new squares have been added to the top

The new squares are A1, A2 and A3 on the tactical map

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