As they galloped (and pedalled) into contact the world held its breath. Imagine then everyone’s surprise when the charge succeeded! This effectively ended the German 5th division's offensive capability, a further blow being the untimely death of the divisional commander killed by a stray artillery shell. It would be ungallant of me to identify the nationality of the responsible gunner, right Simon?
By now the German 6 division had crossed the canal in
strength and was approaching Louvain from the north east. Helped by corps assets, German gunners had battered the defenders of the village sufficiently
that the surviving Belgian guns were withdrawn to Antwerp, together with the far
more important horse drawn field kitchen.
At this point we called Endex and talk through what might have happened next. We agreed that the that the German 5th division would regroup and be reinforced over the next couple of days and
the delay would effectively prevent the Germans sealing off Antwerp for that
period of time. We talked through everyone’s objectives and individual victory
conditions. On balance , the Belgians did slightly better than their opponents. In terms of the victory points for objective locations, honours were even.
Finally, for those of you wondering about the game's title, I refer you both to the individual objectives and the following quote:
“Accent is the last great redoubt
of prejudice.”― A.A. Gill
