TEA FOR SIX

A WAR AND PEACE PBEM GAME



Site last updated: October 21, 2003

Tea for Six is a PBEM game using Avalon Hill's War and Peace boardgame originally published in 1980. The game began in May of 2003. The game is played using a "virtual" gameboard courtesy of Cyberboard. The players are:

Country Flag Player Current status
       
France Josh Goodwin Pro-french
England Alex Brandsma Anti-french
Russia Theodor "Teo" Papatheodorou Anti-french
Austria David Kurtz Anti-french
Prussia Greg Etzel Anti-French
Spain Martin Johnson Pro-French
Gamemaster   Karl Schneider  






JULY 1806 FRENCH TURN

The French squadron in Amsterdam attempts to run the British blockade and is annihilated by Nelson commanding vastly superior forces.

Soult attempts to repeat his feat of conquering Berlin but is bloodily repulsed.

Davout steals a march on the main allied armies and captures Prague.

Battles
Date Name Attacker Defender Description Victor Casualties
July 1806 Berlin
Soult
40,000

Hohenloe
50,000
Soult marches north with 40,000 men to reassert French control over Berlin. Hohenloe and Brunswick defend the city with 50,000 men. The Prussian defense is fanatical and breaks the inexperienced French troops, most of whom are hastily raised conscripts from French satellites. Soult is eventually obliged to withdraw his battered force.
Prussia
20,000 French
10,000 Prussia
July 1806 Prague
Davout
60,000

Ferdinand
25,000


Kutusov
15,000
Davout slips undetected passed the allied armies north of Prague with 25,000 men where he is joined in the Bohemian plain by 35,000 men marching north from Bavaria under Bernadotte. The surprise is total. The French catch the 40,000 Russian and Austrian defenders totally unprepared. The Austrian landwehr break almost immediately and hamper all attempts to mount an effective defense. Davout marches into the city and severs the allied supply lines to the armies north of the city.
France
15,000 French
10,000 Rrussian
20,000 Austrian
July 1806 Moritz
Marmont
50,000

20,000
Marmont marches 50,000 men from Bavaria down the Danube valley. rather than attack Charles' entrenched positions, Marmont takes to the mountains to outflank the Austrian positions. 20,000 Austrians bar the way. Taking advantage of faulty Austrian dispositions and hauling their guns over mountain tracks, Marmont manages to leverage the Austrians out of their position.
France
10,000 French
10,000 Austrian





JULY 1806 ALLIED TURN

Russian troops under Barclay de Tolly attack Dresden a second time and take the city.

The Prussians fortify Berlin.

Battles
Date Name Attacker Defender Description Victor Casualties
July 1806 Dresden

Barclay de Tolly
20,000


5,000
Barclay de Tolly attacks the city a second time with 20,000 men. This time, Soult and his army are gone. Only 5,000 Saxons are left to defend their capital and are quickly overrun.
Russia
5,000 French
5,000 Russian




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