The sixth day of the online campaign sees the first battle to be fought between forces from the Spanish Army of Old Castille under General Blake (Richard) and elements of both I Corps and V Corps under Marshal Victor and Mortier respectively (although neither are on the battlefield).
This engagement has been precipitated by the Spanish offensive move from Vittoria to San Sebastian where a siege was begun several days before.
The battle will be fought using my 6mm figures and the March Attack rules from Crusader Publishing. This is a first game for me using these rules but I’ve read through them a few times and they seem like they’ll do the job well. Sadly I don’t have enough Spanish troops now I’ve started basing all new figures on 60mm x 60mm for Blucher so I’m having to press some British and Portuguese into service as proxies but I’m sure they’ll do just fine.
As this is technically a meeting engagement, and both sides may have reinforcements hurrying to the battlefield, both commanders have been given the option of when to attack, the earlier choice of the two indicating the initiative for the first turn and the number of turns that can be played in the 12 hour March day.
Oh, and it’s raining…