Another outing for our unlucky Frenchman as Capitaine Opless has been informed that a Royal Navy cutter has been sighted and is heading towards one of his signal towers. Mustering what forces he had to hand he headed off to stop the British doing some dastardly deed.
The French quickly deployed in the North with the French Dragoons deploying next to their infantry, much to the bemusement of the British as they were expecting them to head west to try and outflank the landing party.
Whilst the Royal Navy arrived in boats on the South Western shore.
It wasn’t long before the whole French force was heading towards the signal tower. Where were the British Marines, cried Rob.
The Sea Dogs continued their advance into the vines,
whilst their mates made for the signal tower.
At last the Marines arrived, but were they too late to stop the French getting to the tower?
The Naval skirmishers formed up in the vines behind the wall, halting the Voltigeurs in their tracks.
The French formed a nice line and started to pour lead into the column of Marines as they desperately attempted to form line.
Unfortunately the Dragoon fire was too intense and managed to set fire to the signal tower. Oh how we laughed. Well that’s game over then.
However, cries of let’s get Capitaine Opless were heard coming from the British. Looks like the game was still on even though the British had completed their objective in burning the tower. Capitaine Opless aligned his troops next to the Voltigeurs and this was too much for the British skirmishers who were losing men rapidly...
resutling in them withdrawing in an orderly fashion.
The Voltigeurs stepped forward to chase the British off...
But they had walked in front of their own troops. Could Opless stop the conscripts from firing. Alas no.
The mob of sailors with no tower to burn charged into the French that were firing at the Marines. The fight was brief with both sides taking casualties but this did distract the French as the British decided at this point to start to withdraw.
Another unfortunate outing for Capitaine Opless who’s luck only appears to be bad, as the game was effectively over after a few turns but the British decided to play on to make a game of it.
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