Palace Rebuild (2)...

 The base and steps for main palace section done, started assembly...

The palace rebuild starts....

The plan is to have the main front section approx the same size & width as the rear and side elevations; palace low relief sections will be based on some hardboard recovered from some bookcases that have been dismantled.

New look main entrance section ....

Trial dry-run assembly of sections

The wing to the ballroom/view platform will be a separate piece ( to reduce storage width needs)

At the palace .....

A lovely sunny day in the Kingdom of Wittenberg , at the palace the llamas are have a wander around the grounds....

The King, with family, plus local dignitaries enjoy a concert and march past by the guard bands...

The dignitaries leave in their coaches directed by the palace guard...

A governess and some children in her charge play by the fountain...

The palace guard are about to do their rounds.... 

Late in the afternoon the King and the Chancellor are meeting with surveyors and architects to discuss options for the renovation or alteration of the palace frontage....

---oXo---

The palace shelf diorama in my games room...between games storage and my garden railway locomotives.

the diorama has got very ''tired & faded" and needs a complete refurb; at the moment I need the shelf space for some additional storage while some remedial work is going to be done in the house.

So the diorama has been carefully dismantled and as much as possible saved for a re-build; it may be that the palace will have a complete new frontage - depending on the whim of King Leopold (including perhaps a larger ballroom?)

Wittenberg is 20 Years Old....

I was looking at the old online diary pages I had before I created this blog.  Some time during the end of June and the middle of July 2006 the Kingdom of Wittenberg was born. I've had lots of fun and some great games over the years 😀

Some of my favourite pictures about the palace and the town...

The palace gardens.......

The palace guard (and the palace cats)...

Sedan chair race in Wittenberg town...

Time for tiffin at the palace....

Noverre versus Saxe-Jarlsberg : Campaign PDF...

All blog posts relevant to the Duchy of Noverre versus Saxe-Jarlsberg campaign are available in order.

available in PDF format from here..

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xgM53Rgrp7s3nPvGbFuCHwZgfKu-za_y/view?usp=sharing

  

  

The Battle of Vierstrasse...

 When the Saxe-Jarlsberg troops were spotted, General Baube re-positioned his forces; the cavalry moved forward to allow the grenadiers to move up....

Infantry Regiment Rouergue deployed in front of the town ....

The Clermont-Prince light infantry deployed in the wood...

The Munkasse dragoon brigade deployed to screen the troops coming up behind; the Jager corps in front, with Count Pottsendorf leading Munkasse Infantry and Saxe-Jarlsberg grenadiers.

As they advanced, two units split of the jagers headed to the woods while a Munkasse infantry regiment changed direction and moved towards the farm

The Saxe-Jarlsberg jagers entered the wood and came into contact with the Clermont-Prince light troops

The Munkasse infantry close in on the farm....

While the rest of the troops slowly advance....

Clermont-Prince have pushed back Saxe-Jarlsberg Jagers in the woods...

The Saxe-Jarlsberg grenadiers form into line.....

Munkasse grenadiers join with the infantry regiment to fire vollies at the defenders of the farm...

As the Saxe-Jarlsberg forces slowly advance, the Noverre cavalry move forward and the Grenadiers de Chantilly deploy into line...

The Munkasse infantry have taken the farm.....

The mounted jagers move through a gap in the trees, aiming to outflank the Noverre cavalry...

The slow advance continues, the Munkasse dragoons turn to face the Noverre cavalry...

The Saxe-Jarlsberg jagers are gaining ground in the woods....

The Munkasse cavalry have made their move and charged the opposition

The melee starts....

The Saxe-Jarlsberg jagers gain more ground in the wood...

The Noverre hussars lose, but Clermont-Prince dragoons win....

The Saxe-Jarlsberg mounted jagers join the fray.....enough to tip the balance

The Saxe-Jarlsberg jagers have cleared the wood, the Noverre Clermont-Prince infantry retreat...

The Noverre Hussars rout, their opposition falls back to reform; the Noverre Clermont-Prince dragoons rout (the flank/rear attack by the Saxe-Jarlsberg mounted jagers tipped the balance)

The other Munkasse dragoon regiment having lost and routed, were rallied by Count Pottsendorf...

General Baube rallies the Noverre Hussars, to help cover the retreat of the rearguard; the Noverre infantry are falling back in reasonable order....

The Saxe-Jarlsberg and Munkasse troops advance to take the town....

A victory for Saxe-Jarlsberg and Munkasse

however it was a successful rearguard action by Noverre

On the road to Noverre, at Vierstrasse

 
On the road to Noverre, at Vierstrasse.....

---oXo---

With the Saxe-Jarlsberg forces chaseing them back down the road, General Baube has decided to fight a rearguard action. The General has chosen to make a last stand at Vierstrasse.  The troops in best condition are deployed around the town (while the rest of the army continues its retreat back to the Duchy)

A small folorn hope, of half a battalion of light infantry holds a farm next to the road some way from the town....

General Baube watches for the approaching Saxe-Jarlsberg army....

Then in the distance he can see some cavalry are on the move .... a brigade of dragoons at the head of the Saxe-Jarlsberg vanguard...

to be continued....