The beer battles: August 1761
Well these two turns ended up being a struggle for the Pilsen and the Weisbeer, and I'm proud to announce that as we move on to Autumn 1761 both these critical resources are under my control (not much else is though)
Oddly Bohemia was pretty quiet
I decided to pull Daun's force back to Iglau. This takes them out of sight (I think) and by being on the depot they can reinforce etc. If Keith comes after me, it is a good defensive spot for an army that specialises in the defense.
Kollowrat at Tabor, I decide to use to retake Pilsen. This is the supply line for quite a large Prussian force now faffing around on the Danube (next screenshot). His corps used to be the Bavarian army so its a bit fragile as all those Bavarian and HRE units don't seem to get any reinforcements - so I may as well use it as it is.
Over in Bavaria, the optimist will say the French at Nuremburg have the advantage of a central position, the pessimist is that they are surrounded. I think that Prussian force to the north is off to retake Erfurt and may end up at Kessel (if it does its potentially in the rear of the French at Hannover but I'll worry about that later).
The French are a bit low on cohesion due to marches and battles, so I decide in the end to do nothing (I am slowly learning how this game works).
So I get Pilsen and defeat a largely British army, bit of a surprise but both leaders are inept and the British had no corps structure (on the top line there is no one with 2 stars) so had a command malus.
Nothing like planning ahead I presume, its only 27 years to the French Revolution when we can get rid of these incompetents.
and, as suspected, not much happens.
Except of course that Prussian army at Bayreuth is now free to move ...
looking at this, in terms of combat power, both forces are around 4000, 2 of my French corps have the orange envelop (defend orders only, limited move into areas of enemy military control), so on balance I'll sit on the defense and see.
Over in Bohemia, nothing happens, Keith has let me slip away and I want at least one turn to recover. Up in North Germany, its just the two sieges and nothing else going on.
A little parting present to the British
And the expected assault by Heinrich, his first force arrived on its own and was well humped, his main army did a lot of damage but lost the battle. Anyway that means the Weisbeer stays in my hands.
Whow:
a) Kollowrat is suddenly competent;
b) the Prussians really want the lager back.
I went to the Netherlands to avoid this sort of thing, .... but it maybe explains why the British were at Pilsen (stocking up for the wedding, stag party, that sort of thing?)
A lot more busy, a small breach at Hannover, Stade is not going anywhere fast (& the French troops are peeved at the lack of pay), and those battles were good for my NM score. This went some way to recouping the NM hits from July
Now as we slip into September, all of sudden Keith and Freddie are spotted leaving Bohemia and going back to Saxony ...
And in Bavaria, I've got to decide if the French army is in a better state than the Prussians, if so I can follow up my victory and turf them out of Bayreuth ...
