[Fork of Drums and Shakos] Prendre d'assault le Fort

The guards on the walls repositioned based on the deployment of the attackers.

The Officer tried to activate, but rolled snake-eyes – no guards poured out the house this turn.

Most of the British rushed towards the walls.

Only the Rifles Chosen Men tried to fire their rifles. The first took careful aim, but nicked the wall in front of the French guard. The second could not draw a clear line of sight and advanced towards the wall to get into a better position.

The Black Brunswickers advanced but still kept under cover of the trees.

The first soldier reached the wall and placed his ladder, the rest was close behind.

The guards repositioned to the position where the ladder had been placed. Shots at Brits further away were unsuccessful.

At the south end of the perimeter, the guards also fired on the attacking Brits: one miss, one wounded and out of action.

The French NCO fired on the Brit advancing at the corner, and knocked him down.

The Black Brunswickers broke cover and rushed to the walls. One grou managed to reach it, the other only made it about halfway across the kill zone.

As the Officer rolled a 1&2 this time, still no reinforcements cam forth.

One storming Brit moved to the ladder on the ground and picked it up, the next Brit advanced up to the wall with the ladder he was carrying.

The Brit without a ladder quickly neeled down an took an aimed shot up the wall to cover his lads. The French defender had to duck down behind the parapet.

Near the corner, one Brit placed his ladder against the wall and started climbing.

One of the Rifle's Choosen Men reloaded his rfile, while the other took aim and fired at a defender, but missed.

The British Officer advanced.

The Birt at the second ladder to the corner climbed up and attacked the French, but he got impaled on a bayonet and his body thrown back down.

One of the Guards hit an attacking Brunswicker with his musket and knockedhim down.

Around the corner, the NCO pushed an erected ladder away from wall, the Brit who had just started climbing it fell from about halfway up to the ground, but landed on his feet, uninjured.

The Grenadier fired on a Jäger carrying a ladder and knocked him down.

Another French fired on the front Jäger, knocking him down as well.

Yet another French fired an aimed shot at the Brunswicker banner bearer, and hit him right between the eyes – dead.

The garçons in the house finally got roused by the Officer and started to leave the building, seemingly slightly swaggering… ah, le bon vin rouge. Already the third guy tripped (1&2)…

The Brunswickers pressed on with the attack on their leg of wall, a second ladder got placed against the wall.

One Jäger climbed up to the parapet, a second climbed up to the top of ladder, and a third managed to climb halfway up.

One of the (slightly drunken) French in the in the courtyard fired on the Jäger who had just scaled the wall and (depite being drunk) killed him.

More French poured out of the building… until the Officer botched his activation roll again…

More Brunswickers scaled the wall. One of the French in the courtyard was shot down. the Sappeur managed to equal the dice roll and survive the shot against him. The Jägers also fired down the parapet, to make room for their comrades on the other ladder; two aimed shots resulted in one kill and on knock down.

All ladders were set against the wall again. Most of the lads moved towards the southern wall where there were no French at the moment.

The French were mostly busy reloading, until a dice roll ended their activation.

The Officer, wanting to restore some order and provide encouragement on the wall, started to climb a ladder, ending his activation halfway up.

Next, a French in the courtyard fired an aimed shot up against a Jäger on the wall, but missed.

Due to too much vin rouge, the next French stumbled and ended the French tunf (double fail on two activation dice).

One Jäger stabbed a French defender to death.

The dice in below image show the next activation roll…

More lads scaled the walls, some ending up halfway.

The first Rifle Marksman took another aimed shot and knocked down his target.

The second Rifle Marksman also took an aimed shot but missed (1 rolled).

The NCO initiated a power attack on one of the Brits on a ladder. The NCO rolled a 1, the Brit rolled a 2; resulting in the Brit being knocked down the wall. But he survived the fall.

The Guard (two models besides the NCO) fired at a Jäger and knocked him down.

The Sappeur missed with his blunderbuss.

Next activation attempt – snake-eyes…

The Officer engaged his British counterpart.

Two more French in the courtyard found their aim and knocked down a Jäger, each.

Next activation roll was botched.

One of the Brits scaled a letter, engaged the French officer and attacked. The French nonchalantly plunged his sword into the Brits heart.

Another Brit on top of a ladder attacked a French defender, supported by his officer, and knocked the French down.

One more lad moved up the ladder to support his officer, by engaging the French officer from behind.

The Sappeur got killed, the Grenadier knocked down.

The NCO fired on a Jäger, but missed.

The next French finished loading his musket.

The French engaged by a Brit and the British officer stood up.

French on western end of wall engaged a Jäger.

Teh Grenadier stood up.

The Grenadier got knocked down by the NCO, then killed by a Jäger.

Another Jäger knocked down a French in the courtyard with a well placed musket shot.

One of the line men moved and fired at the French NCO, but missed.

First activation attempt botched.

Lad scaled wall, engaged the French officer.

The first Rifle Marksman reloaded.

The second Rifle Marksman botched his activation roll.

The French NCO fough5t against a Brit on the wall in melee – as a result, the NCO was put out of action.

This resulted in a Loss of Leader test:

The French on the south wall activated, attacked the Brit still on the ladder. The Brit was pushed down the ladder and broke his neck.

The Jäger on the west wall fired an aimed shot at a French and knocked him down.

The second Jäger failed his activation roll (see screenshot).

The Brit at the corner of the parapet fired at a French and knocked him down.

The officer rolled 1, 1 & 5 for his activatio which ended the turn, but allowed him one attack, which knocked down another French.

The French on the west wall attacked the Brit on the ladder but was killed himself.

The French had to take a Morale test for falling to below half strength.

The attackers had reached their victory condition and the game ended.