Napoleon's Last Battles -- Campaign, Summer 2016 -- 5

We've now made it all the way to nightfall on the 16th.  My dice rolling has been nigh catastrophic as a couple exchange results against Reille's II Corps have left that body only four SPs short of demoralization.  And both were long odds exchanges, one at 4:1 and the other at 5:1.

On the better side of things, with the coming of nightfall, MB's Prussians have a difficult choice.  I've marched D'Erlon's I Corps decisively Southeast to wind up at the North end of Ligny.  Unlike, of course, Napoleon himself who, with Ney's assistance, marched and countermarched these lads all day.  When the 9 a.m. dawn turn comes (it's 2400 hours now) the Prussians will have to establish supply or be eliminated. As MB herself texted me after completing this turn while I was at work, her boys are on a but if a "B, double e, double r, u, n".

Finally into Ligny for 'boney.  Even if it didn't exactly come at the point of a bayonet.

The race for the flank East of Ligny.

Meanwhile, HL's Anglo-Allied are holding serve and waiting for a truckload of overnight reinforcements.