VAE VICTUS Board Game #5: The Victories of Marshal Saxe - Fontenoy 1745 and Lauffeld 1747

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From 1745 to 1747, during the War of Austrian Succession, Marshal Saxe won a series of victories against the allied armies -- the most famous of them was at Fontenoy. After a brilliant maneuver, he lured the English Army under the Duke of Cumberland to a prepared battlefield studded with redoubts. After furious fighting, the French army bent but did not break as Saxe ordered a counterattack that ultimately drove the English from the field.

Saxe again faced the Duke of Cumberland at Lauffeld on July 2nd, 1747. This time, the French attacked and defeated the Anglo-Dutch-Austrian army, which escaped only through the sacrifice of the English cavalry.

Contents:
2 card format 59 x 40 cm (two-sided printing)
216 pre-cut pieces and markers
Booklet of rules and scenarios
Map Scale: 300/400 m per hexagon
Units: regiments and brigade