Dom was back for the weekend and we finally got a chance to play the Talavera (North) scenario I have been planning for for a long. Despite the scenario representing only part of the battle, the number of units required were so big that we had to use double scale, hence the dice you see in the photos (to represent half-bases).
The battle saw three French divisions engaging the British (Dom's figures painted more than 20 years ago) left flank, hoping to turn their position, as well as the Spanish (Nabil's newly-painted figures) to the British left.
Historically, the Spanish took little part in the battle, but in our game I wanted to prevent them from influencing the main battle, and so resolved to rush their position en masse to take them out of the battle, before turning to aid wahj roll up the British flank.
However, the Spanish responded proactively, and prevented the French from enveloping them. Nevertheless, French numbers told and the Spanish were contained on their ridge. Then I made the classic error of being too fixed on the immediate objective and losing sight of the bigger battle. Instead of leaving a small force to contain the Spanish and diverting the rest of the division to my left, I tried to push the Spanish off the table. The Spanish held on, and I lost two precious turns before realising that that the French left flank was not making headway.
By the time the game clock ran down the Allies had won convincingly.
