Napoleon's Last Battles -- Campaign, Summer to Fall 2016 -- 12

The morning of June 18, 1815,  has come and the French are a healthy distance South of Waterloo.

Still, we'll fight where we stand and that means pounding the Allied right.  HL's allies, notably not the British, took a bad beating in recent combats but, unless matters change dramatically, I'll likely get nowhere near the 230 VP I need for victory.  For those unfamiliar, I score 1 VP for every Allied strength point killed, two for every French strength point exited from the map en route to Brussels, and lose one VP for every point lost by the French. This, among other things, is what makes the exchange CRT result so dreadful.

The pocket is closing around the British, but, just off camera to the right, MB's Prussians seem to be plotting an envelopment of their own.  The Allies face an interesting choice in that they only need to prevent the French from earning VPs to win.  This can encourage the 19th Century version of the prevent defense.

And it's little bits and bobs of the Allies to the Northwest that prevent me from being able to bolt for Brussels.