Battle of Mora – Move 11

1800-1900 13 August 1813

Table at the start of move 10

All of the Italian infantry are in rout, leaving the guns without protection

The Italian cavalry are on the far right, pinning the Spanish infantry and artillery

The Spanish guerrillas are well positioned to attack the French artillery

Marshal Suchet (Gifted)

5 Command Points

Leave routed infantry and moves to join Severoli

Change corps orders to Retreat

  Guerrillas charge guns

General Severoli (Poor)

8 Command Points

Orders – Retreat

Artillery fire on Spanish gunners (total 6 – no casualties)

Severoli moves to command range of cavalry brigade

Cavalry turn left and form line to threaten guerrilla’s

Artillery limber and move 4” towards cavalry

5^th brigade test morale for being in rout (total -3, fail and continue to rout)

6^th brigade test morale for being in rout (total -4. fail and continue to rout)

8^th brigade test morale for being in rout (total -4, fail and continue to rout)

General O’Donnell (Poor)

9 Command Points

Orders – Attack

Artillery fire on cavalry (total 6 – no casualties)

Gunners manhandle guns 2” towards cavalry

O’Donnell moves to command range of 13^th brigade

13^th brigade advance 2” in square towards cavalry

O’Donnell moves to command range of guerrilla’s

Guerrilla’s charge limbered artillery

Gunners test morale to evade (total 1 – fail)

Gunners surrender to guerrilla’s

Game Notes

The game ends with all of the Italian corps, except for their cavalry brigade, in rout

The cavalry are too weak to attempt to save the guns, but do cover the retreat

There are no rules for infantry capturing limbered artillery, so we adopted Rule 8 which covers limbered artillery contacted by cavalry.  

Wargame rules can be found at

http://napoleonicwargamerules.blogspot.com/

Table at end of game

The Italian gunners have surrendered and are being escorted away by the guerrillas

The Italian cavalry have too many casualties to be able to opportunity charge the guerrillas and save the gunners. 

They are also within range of the Spanish guns and retreat to cover the rout

Game Result

16^th Italian corps started the battle with 8 infantry and 2 cavalry casualties

The now have 32 infantry and gunner plus 2 cavalry casualties, plus the loss of their guns

4^th Spanish corps have lost 9 infantry and 1 artillery casualties

A very hard fought battle, and another convincing victory for the Spanish.