Revisiting the Seven Years war

Recently,I have been trying to formulate a new set of 7 Years War rules, and getting not very far along with it!

As a help, we did a game using the current rules we have to see what was needed to make a better set.
Unfortunately, we didn't get the game to a satisfactory conclusion due to the late arrival of half the Russians and the terrain!

We used Ian's Prussians against Lawrence and my Russians...

Phil commanded half the Prussians, and deployed a large force of Kuirrasiers to the right of his infantry. I faced them with a mixed bag of Cossacks, Kalmuks and Serbian hussars.

My Cuirrasiers, dragoons and infantry held the Russian left.

In the centre, the Russians infantry outnumbered the Prussians facing them. 

 More Prussian horse and infantry, under Ian, faced Lawrences Russians.

 (An Overview)

 At game start, most of the Russians refused to move, though Lawrence got a regiment of infantry to try to hold a wood in front of the Prussian left. 

The Prussians facing them countered by bringing their reserve cavalry force to their left.

On my flank, Phil's Kuirassiers  also failed to move

 I managed to get my light cavalry brigade to advance into a wood.

 The rest of my cavalry- led by an incompetent brigadier - were unwilling to support them.

Seeing my lights filtering through the woods, Phil brought some of his cavalry to support his artillery, which my Cossacks threatened to ride down.  

 The Russian infantry finally got moving on turn 3, the Prussians waited.

 Despite my best efforts, my Cossacks refused to attack due to the unwelcome arrival of the Prussian horse.

 The rest of the Prussian cavalry right began to advance towards my wing.

On the Prussian left, their cavalry began to move to attack Lawrences cavalry. 

Would the Russians be able to match the mighty Prussian horse?

 Seeing the Prussian advance, my Kalmuks took a rough hill, supported by the Hussars. 

 The Prussians opposite decided not to contest this move.

The other 2 regiments swept past the Kalmuks, what would they do? 

The Garde du Corps  moved to cover my Kalmuks exit from the hill.

Back on the other wing, the Russian and Prussian cavalry faced each other. 

In the centre, my artillery came into accurate range 

 The Prussian infantry, unable to reply, took damage but held.

My Kalmuks started skirmishing...the Prussian horse charged, taking losses from archery as they came, but eventually won when the Garde du Corps joined in! 

 Lawrences cavalry was beaten badly by the Prussians.

 With my Kalmuks routing (they did rally later) - and one of my Cossack units also routed when they foolishly tangled with Kuirassiers, the Prussians were in the ascendancy.

Sadly, we ran out of time here, but I think the Prussians would claim a victory of sorts! - though a lot could have happened if we had another couple of hours!

I enjoyed the game, and it was very helpful in giving me some ideas!

Back on the Russian front

Today we did a WW2 skirmish as the first game of the year. We ran a couple of understrength Red Army platoons against a Wehrmacht platoon. Both sides had armour support.
Ian took command, he had a squad led by an officer and a commissar and was supported by a Maxim MMG . Phil had a squad supported by a small group of anti-tank personnel.
Lawrence's squad had a 50mm mortar in support,  and my squad was supported by a group of 6 SMG armed infantry, who were escorting 2 T-34s (Tankovy desant)

2 Russian snipers moved forward to spot the enemy positions.

  Down the road, a wrecked Hanomag and a PaK 40 taking cover behind it.

They also spotted a Hetzer in an emplaced position. 

Other troops in emplacements were on their right. 

(An overview of the German positions) 

 Ian ordered me to lead through some woods followed by 2 other squads.

 I was to take the buildings and sweep behind the Fascisti positions.

After a careful check on the woods to my front... 

 ..my men cleared the woods onto the flank of the anti-tank gun.

Ian followed Phil's section in support of me. 

 My men spotted some Germans lounging by the wreck.

 A fire team ran forward supported by the rest of the squad.

 I lead with a grenade before the surprised Germans could react. 

2 of the Germans fell, the rest were still stunned.  

Phil had spotted 2 MG34s in an emplacement ahead.. 

Very accurate fire killed or wounded half and they fled back to the buildings.

My infantry tore into the PaK 40's crew.

 Phil's squad noticed some more Germans hiding in a wood beyond the buildings. 

 A panzerjager group were preparing to shoot.

 A burst from a DP machine gun -again very accurately!- sorted them out.

Phil moved on pursuing the MG 34 crews who had retreated. 

My DP team retrieved 2 Panzerfausts! 

The rest of my infantry cleared a house while the anti-tank team looked for the - as yet unaware - Hetzer. 

 I fired my flare gun, and our 2 tanks moved down the road.

 Phil had a mine-dog team. They sneaked forward and the dog was released.

 It actually decided to sniff the vehicle and cock its leg, before going under the vehicle as it had been trained to do.

The dog went up with a woof! (lol!),  but only slightly damaged the vehicle.

 The German MG teams despite desperate resistance, finally fell.

The Hetzer, leaking diesel, retreated, but the 88 and its supporting MG34 turned to face flank, and our attack. 

 I was able to infiltrate their flank via a building.

Ian's men surprised some infantry hiding by the Hetzers emplacement. His grenade overshot and missed. 

My men rushed the 88, supported by my DP team and the men in the house. 

 My last grenade caused mayhem.

 The Germans retreated from the assault.

The Germans Ian had engaged, charged into Ian's men and disabled one of them. The T-34s, having moved into town, now appeared. 

 The Hetzer and its supporting infantry, retreated off table.

Ian's men finally won the melee and took a prisoner (for the NKVD!) 

 Lawrences men had been guarding the flank of our advance, and now laid smoke with their mortar to screen our flank attack.

Outmanoeuvred, the remaining Germans withdrew. We had won!

When we turned over the remaining hidden markers, it appeared the majority of the German infantry were covering the centre of the table, and would have been massacred from the flank if the game had continued.

We only had 1 casualty! the Germans lost over a dozen, all told. Surprise, and a very aggressive assault (together with a good slice of luck at several points in the game!) made it seem easy!, we so nearly took a lot of casualties!

We all enjoyed the game a lot though!