"Square Eagles" with Will

A few weeks agio I had a new wargames freind, Will over for his first tabletop wargame. Via comments on the blog. we learned that were but 2 town apart here in NW Connecticut. For a first wargame, "Square Eagles" seemed well suited. 

We played Scenario #3, "control the River", from Neil Thomas' One Hour Wargames. We added 2 infantry units each to the force of 6 generated by the OHW tables.

Will took the Austrians (white), and I took the Bavarians (Blue), the action doubtless occurring at the outset of the 1809 campaign in April, wit the objective being to control both river crossings. 

Austrian General Eisnerweiss is hit!

After dressing his wound, General Eisnerweiss returned to the fray at the second crossing, and was hit again. "I guess maybe painting those red circles on my white jacket wasn't such a great idea after all!"!" 

A little more lucky dice for combat and Rallying, and Bavarian General von Andreas has prevailed as dusk falls on the field.

We had fun with the game, which took less than 2 hours to play. Will is a very talented artist, who worked for DC Comics for many years, and now does free lance work. He later told me he was off to a big gaming convention this Spring, courtesy of one of his clients. He did the graphic work for some of their products! He is already hard at work painting up some 28 mm Piano Wargames figures!