DBx SMACKDOWN 2013

Colorado Springs Gamers Association (CSGA) and the Colorado Military Historians (CMH)

SMACKDOWN!

 Well another smackdown is almost in the books.  Last Saturday CSGA hosted our annual DBx smackdown at their club in Colorado Springs.  Of course everyone had a blast but due to a scheduling problem we have one more Doubles BBDBA event to complete.  General John Brown has coordinated this last pivotal battle in September.  It will Greg and Matt going against the Evil Hayes Brothers Art and Roy.   Over the last two years of this competition the score is 1 to 1!  Go CMH!

This year we added a new Dbx event by way of throwing down some DBN.  We chose to play the Prussian attack on Plancenoit.  The French VI Corps trying to hold back some the angered Prussian IV Corps.  It was Doug Raines and Nate Forte playing the French and Doug Wildfong and myself playing the Prussians.  Note that Nate is from CMH and was granted a special Presidential pardon for playing for CSGA.

Here are a few pictures.

DBMM Pat and Dick fought this one out.

CSGA and CMH duking it out!

DBA Commanders -  Bernie, Doug, Terry and Greg

Our CMH CinC General John Brown going against Rob

DBN Commanders Doug  W., Prussian right, Doug R., French left,
Nate Forte, French right and I was the Prussian left

So the DBN battle was a very close run action.  We modified the scoring system and scale to provide us a better historical feel.  That meant that the whoever solely held Plancenoit received 2 points.  But ala, Drums and Shako Large Battle (DSLB) we awarded a side one (1) point that had penetrated the enemies Zone 1 (6 inch form centerline).  And if you got Infantry into their Zone 2 (rear 6 inches) then the side would be given 2 points. One additional condition was if you got Cavalry in Zone 2 you could score another point.  This provided us with a very desperate battle where the Prussians are pushing into the French Right Flank and trying to punch through into Napoleon's rear.  

Prussian right on the attack!

So the DBN battle was a very close run action.  We modified the scoring system and scale to provide us a better historical feel.  That meant that the whoever solely held Plancenoit received 2 points.  But ala, Drums and Shako Large Battle (DSLB) we awarded a side one (1) point that had penetrated the enemies Zone 1 (6 inch form centerline).  And if you got Infantry into their Zone 2 (rear 6 inches) then the side would be given 2 points. One additional condition was if you got Cavalry in Zone 2 you could score another point.  This provided us with a very desperate battle where the Prussians are pushing into the French Right Flank and trying to punch through into Napoleon's rear.  

My Prussian siege at Plancenoit, man those French line were stubborn!

Two French Brigades were rushed in to await the Prussian IV Corps attack.  And as the Prussian's pushed into the area the Young Guard were ordered to close up and gaps with the Old Guard on standby.

You can tell this is fourth turn, the Young Guard arrived Turn 3
and they are on the outskirts!  My columns were pushing them hard.

It got to the end where both the French and Prussians scored one (1) point for having infantry in each others Zones.  Plancenoit had enough units in there to contest the village so no points there.  So it was 1 to 1 so we went to the units destroyed to break the tie.  The Prussians were down 5 to 8, damn!  This being a DBx throwdown tournament we had to convert that to DBA scoring so we agreed on a 60 to 40 score in favor of the French Dogs.

You can see Doug on our fight flank secured a point by getting
across the road into the French lines.  I was eventually repulsed except for one Battalion that
 can be seen in the near corner of Plancenoit.  That was enough to deny the 2 points for either side.

Great fun, I would like to fight this again next year in the competition and add Quatre Bras as an additional battle.  Let's see if we can get more players next year for our DBN event.

Thanks CSGA for your hospitality providing food and a great playing environment.  I wanted to also add safe, well, it is in the Police Station.

Dan