Dor de Cabeca, Gateway to victory

  • As you take roll call of units gathered at Dor de Cabeca you note the following :


    1st line vet

    2nd line good shooters

    3rd line large 3DP

    4th line green

    1st Lt cav green 2DP

    2nd Lt cav green 3DP

    Med arty 1DP

    Hvy arty


    4 fortification points.


    The French gained victories in minor actions on the Road from da Gorda and West of Pernas and the large action at Bexiga however Old Wheezy pulled it out of the bag at Pernas and you have pegged back the French lead. You are trailing the French but the gap is not insurmountable and you have 6 campaign points.

    You have one week to spend your supply points fortifying Dor de Cabeca further and removing DPs. The weeks rest will automatically remove 1DP.


    If you can draw up a centre, right flank and left flank, allocate units and say where you are using the fortifications (you can split them up if you want).

    Also if you can give me some dice rolls please.

  • "Boom Boom" Braveheart confidently awaited the approach of the French. "Old Wheezy", as the men called him had given them a bloody nose while the sacfrifice of the light infantry had bought him the time he needed to complete the defences around Dor de Cabeca, while still funnelling supplies to the eager guerillas.


    The 1st, 2nd and 3rd line infantry companies, veterans of many campaigns, and having had weeks to stockpile ammunition in their prepared defences, would not falter a step. Angus, himself, had paced out the ranging markers.


    At 1,500 yards roundshot, from the heavy and medium guns, would begin tearing through the French column.

    At 1,000 yards the light guns come into range.

    At 400 yards he would give the order for the infantry to begin volley fire and have the guns switch to canister.

    At 200 yards out from the lines he would order the men to fire independantly.

    He set the last marker at 100 yards. If the enemy reached this point the 4th Line would be ordered to charge out from the defensive position, then fall back again once the threat was cleared, all the while the veterans would maintain their withering fire.


    The cavalry would hold, waiting for the opportunity to break the French lines. Only in the moment of direst need would they be otherwise thrown into the fray.


    The French were about to taste true British spunk.

  • As your men await behind the fortifications Old Wheezy regaled them with recollections of his giving Frenchie a good licking in the past , the men weren't clear if he was meaning his past campaign actions or his past actions with his favourite mistress, nonetheless it raised spirits as did news that extensive Spanish guerilla activity has hit the French supply lines.

    There has been little action in the past week save for some French lights scouting in the distance but now your men hear the beating of regimental drums from down the valley and more enemy light cavalry and infantry have appeared in the distance. The enemy assault will soon be upon your force.

    Before that the lull has given you one last lot of supply points to spend. That's sure to cheer your men's hearts further.

  • 2 more SPs to the guerillas and 2 SPs spent on additional fortifications in the form of a gunboat stationed just west of the fork in the river.


    "Lads, Old Wheezy's got one more suprise for Frenchy. Behold the gunboat, Giselle"


    Dice

    5

    1

    1

    1

    5

    6

    5

    3

    1

    2

    6

    5

    2

    2

    1

    3

  • Old Wheezy surveyed the defenses around Dor de Cabeca, Braveheart had certainly keep his men and the local labor busy, but his eye lingered a little longer, and somewhat lovingly by the river, where his skilled valet, Simpson Long, had revived his Naval engineering talents over the last few weeks creating the gunboat Giselle. A wry grin crept across his face as his mind wistfully flashed back to his time with buxom Belgian fancy. Oh how things would have been different if she had not been taken by the consumption.


    Still the new Giselle was a welcome tribute with lines in just the right places and would form a fine fighting platform.