The French forces have started their frontal attack, forcing the retreat of the Prussian batteries from the first line, at the cost of the loss of a full French battery.
Near the woods, a small cavalry/artillery combat took place. A Prussian Landwehr regiment was forced to retire, after surviving a frontal attack against a Bavarian battery.
Watch this space!
The actual battlefield resulted slightly different that the depicted in the first (official) map (see below). The main difference lies on the right Prussian flank, which is not open and in the air, but is actually covered by an isolated farm located into a soaked little valley, traversed by a small stream and surrounded by labour fields, i.e. a zone of rough terrain.
Tauentzien, the Prussian C-i-C, immediately took advantage of that feature, detaching two Reserve battalions, one Landwher cavalry regiment and 1/2 battery to occupy that strong-point, allowing him to menace and fire on the left flank of the expected French attack.
The rest of the Prussian force was disposed in two all-arms lines. The first included two battalions occupying Zalsmdorff, whereas the second line awaited in close support with its cavalry deployed in the left flank.
The Oudinot attack plan is simple: a frontal assault against the Prussian center while simultaneously watching the Prussian farm with one brigade of the 13th Division. The main attack will be carried out by the 14th Division, with one brigade attacking Zalsmdorff and the other breaking through the Prussian units in the open. The 29th (Bavarian) division and the 29th Light Cavalry Division will be maintained in reserve, to deliver the final coup de grâce.
You can see all these dispositions at the main web site.
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The following is the OOB for the Lasalle refight of Zahna. The only non-official items are (1) the existence of a French divisional commander (Guilleminot) not necesary, but included to follow the line of command and (2) the use of one-half batteries by the Prussians.
Both armies are almost balanced in numbers, but the Prussian quality is unknown, since many of the Landwehr battalions are 'Unpredictable'. Ths statistics of the Subcommanders have been adapted from Napoleon's Battles when available, or diced out according to the ruleset.
The Prussians are defending, whereas the French are attacking from the North side of the table (actually the West). The depicted map is very general, and the actual table could be slightly different because of the fog of war!
French Forces: XII Corps (Army Moral 52; Break point 18)
Commander: Maréchal Oudinot Duke of Reggio
14th Division Guilleminot -/-
1st Brigade Grayer +1/-
2/18th Légêre Regiment Reliable/Experienced/SK2
6/18th Légêre Regiment Reliable/Amateur/SK1
1/156th Ligne Regiment Reliable/Amateur/SK1
2/156th Ligne Regiment Reliable/Amateur/SK1
3/156th Ligne Regiment Reliable/Amateur/SK1
2nd Brigade Brun de Villeret -/*
2/ Illyrian Regiment Reliable/Amateur/SK1
3/52nd Ligne Regiment Reliable/Amateur/SK1
4/52nd Ligne Regiment Reliable/Amateur/SK1
1/137th Ligne Regiment Reliable/Amateur/SK1
2/137th Ligne Regiment Reliable/Amateur/SK1
3/137th Ligne Regiment Reliable/Amateur/SK1
2/4th Foot Artillery Foot/3 cannon/Medium/1 Howitzer
1/8th Foot Artillery Foot/3 cannon/Medium/1 Howitzer
13th Division Pacthod +1/*
3/67th Ligne Regiment Reliable/Amateur/SK1
4/67th Ligne Regiment Reliable/Amateur/SK1
3/101st Ligne Regiment Reliable/Amateur/SK1
4/101st Ligne Regiment Reliable/Amateur/SK1
4/4th Foot Artillery Foot/3 cannon/Medium/1 Howitzer
29th Light Cavalry Division Beaumont +1/*
Westphalian Chevauleger-lancier Regiment Shaky/Amateur/Pursuit/Lance
Hessian Chevauleger Regiment Shaky/Amateur/Pursuit
Bavarian Chevauleger Regiment Reliable/Amateur/Pursuit
3/5th Horse Artillery Horse/2 cannon/Medium/1 Howitzer
Artillery Reserve
1/4th Reserve Foot Artillery Foot/3 cannon/Heavy/1 Howitzer
Reinforcements
29th (Bavarian) Division Raglovich -1/
2/3rd Regiment Bavarian Line Reliable/Amateur/SK1
1/4th Regiment Bavarian Line Reliable/Amateur/SK1
3/8th Regiment Bavarian Line Reliable/Amateur/SK1
1/13th Regiment Bavarian Line Reliable/Amateur/SK1
1st Jaeger Batallion Reliable/Amateur/SK2
1st Bavarian Foot Artillery Foot/2 cannon/Medium/1 Howitzer
Prussian Forces IV Prussian Army Corps (Army Moral 54,5 Break point 19)
Commander: Generallieutenant Tauentzien
Detachment Beyer -/-
1/3rd Reserve Infantry Regiment Reliable/Amateur/SK2
2/3rd Reserve Infantry Regiment Reliable/Amateur/SK2
3rd East Prussian Landwehr Cavalry Regiment Shaky/Amateur
1/2 Horse Battery #11 (Borchard) Horse/2 cannon/Medium
First line Dobschütz -/-
1/1st Kurmärk Landwehr Regiment Unpredictable/Amateur/SK1
2/1st Kurmärk Landwehr Regiment Unpredictable/Amateur/SK1
1/5th Kurmärk Landwehr Regiment Unpredictable/Amateur/SK1
2/5th Kurmärk Landwehr Regiment Unpredictable/Amateur/SK1
3/5th Kurmärk Landwehr Regiment Unpredictable/Amateur/SK1
4/5th Kurmärk Landwehr Regiment (Mellersky) Unpredictable/Amateur/SK1
1/2 Horse Battery #6 (Jenichen) Horse/1 cannon/Medium/1 Howitzer
6pdr Foot Battery #17 (Gleim) Foot/3 cannon/Medium/1 Howitzer
1/2 6pdr Foot Battery #30 (Hertig) Foot/1 cannon/Medium/1 Howitzer
Cavalry of the first line Schmitterlöw +1/-
1st Kurmärk Landwehr Cavalry Regiment Shaky/Amateur
7th Kurmärk Landwehr Cavalry Regiment Shaky/Amateur
Berlin Landwehr Cavalry Regiment Shaky/Amateur
Second Line Lindenau -/-
1/2nd Silesian Landwehr Regiment Reliable/Amateur/SK1
2/2nd Silesian Landwehr Regiment Reliable/Amateur/SK1
5/2nd Silesian Landwehr Regiment Reliable/Amateur/SK1
3/3rd Reserve Infantry Regiment Reliable/Amateur/SK2
1/2nd Neumärk Landwehr Regiment Unpredictable/Amateur/SK1
2/2nd Neumärk Landwehr Regiment Unpredictable/Amateur/SK1
3/2nd Neumärk Landwehr Regiment Unpredictable/Amateur/SK1
1/2 Horse Battery #11 (Borchard) Horse/1 cannon/Medium/1 Howitzer
1/2 12pdr Foot Battery #5 (Lent) Foot/1 cannon/Heavy/1 Howitzer
6pdr Foot Battery #27 (Mathias) Foot/3 cannon/Medium/1 Howitzer
Cavalry of the second line Seydlitz +1/-
Brandenburg Dragoon Regiment Reliable/Experienced/Pursuit
Pommeranian Dragoon Regiment Reliable/Experienced/Pursuit
2nd Neumärk Landwehr Cavalry Regiment Shaky/Amateur
3rd East Prussian Landwehr Cavalry Regiment Shaky/Amateur
Wings Illowiaski #3 Don Cossack Regiment (+) Shaky/Irregular/Pursuit
This battle is big for the Lasalle standards, and I am curious about its development.
After the succesful re-fighting of the battle of Hagelberg, this time is the turn of Zahna. Fought the 4th of September of 1813, Zahna was a sort of prelude to the battle of Dennewitz.
The Oudinot's French-Bavarian XII Corps (part of the Ney's Army of Berlin) encountered the Tauentzien's Prussian Corps. The actual battle reduced to a French demostration (only five battalions were engaged) that forced the Prussians to retire towards the Bernadotte's Army of the North. Two days later, the battle of Dennewitz would ends the Ney's advance against Berlin.
The battle is described in the Nafziger's book 'Napoleon at Dresden. The Battles of August 1813' (The Emperor Press, Chicago, 1994), and there is an OOB for that battle in the Nafziger collection, that was recently donated to and uploaded to the U.S. Combined Arms Research Library (See this post). The above map has been found in The Napoleon-Series site.
Whereas the actual engaged forces were very small, the Nafziger's OOB is too big so I have taken an intermediate position to re-fight the battle as a Lasalle wargame: I'll use the French Liberation lists of the Lasalle ruleset, as a guide to find the number of battalions and batteries available to the French. After I'll adjust the Prussian forces to balance the engaged forces.
My acknowledgements to my good friend Armand d'Arc: he suggested me this little battle.
Again the work of my Argentinian friend Armand d'Arc
This time, Armand show us a batallion of Hungarian grenadiers defending Norden Cota, a fortified advanced post of the Allied (British-German) in his fictional African campaign, near the frontier with the Associated territory.
There are some old Airfix British grenadiers but the ca. 400 men are conversions from different sources, requiring the modelling of the typical chair-shaped headdress.
These men are destined to fight against the Cazadores de Balbastro, the Colonel Pardo's men! 
Well, I forgot the 'Pursuit an Victory' check in the final turn:
The French had 3 Hussars and 1 Chasseur bases of 'Pursuit' cavalry left, i.e. four points.
The Allied had 12 Cossacks ('Pursuit' cavary) bases left and 4 'other cavalry' units remaining, i.e. sixteen points.
The Allied (winner) has higher score, so it will pursuit the routed French, and the Prussians have achieved a DECISIVE VICTORY.
Bad news for Girard!
See the AAR at Hagelberg (1813)
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