General de Brigade Pepin's brigade of Gazan's division of V Corps is stationed around Santa Olalla in the sierra north of Seville watching the road from Extremadura for any approach by the Spanish army. Foraging from the farms and villages nearby they begin to encounter some resistance from the locally population. Some of the locals band together with some dispersed former soldiers to resist the French. One detachment gets caught by these guerilleros stripping a farm of provisions and must get away with their ill gotten gains to feed the regiment.

This is part of Chapter 1 of the Seville 1810 campaign.

All fields with crops, all wooded areas, and all hillsides count as broken ground, marked with brown. Foraging areas are labelled in green.

The large farmhouse has two floors, and the smaller hovel has just one. The pig sty cannot be entered by troops.

The Spanish have one deployment point at the windmill on the hill marked in red, along with a moveable deployment point. The French primary deployment point is at the point where the road runs off the western edge of the table. Their secondary deployment point is located on the wagon itself, both are marked in blue.

Chef de Bataillon Diop is overseeing the gathering of supplies from a farm in the sierra near Santa Olalla with a force made up of two companies of Chasseurs and a section of Voltigeurs from the 21st Leger. The mission is to strip the farm of food, load the wagon, and return to headquarters. What Diop doesn't know is that the foraging activities of Pepin's brigade have brought the local guerrilla led by Don Alvaro Corbero down from the hills in a bid to protect the local farmers.

• Chef de Bataillon Diop Status 3 leader (1)
• Status 1 leader (2)
• 3 groups of Line (Light) Infantry
• Madame Cholet (water cart)

• Capitaine Dumont Status 2 leader (3)
• Status 1 leader (4)
• 3 groups of Line (Light) Infantry

• Capitaine Courbet Status 2 leader (5)
• Status 1 leader (6)
• 2 groups of Voltigeur Skirmishers
• Marksman.

• 3 status 0 leaders foraging (7, 8, 9)

• A forage wagon (secondary deployment point).

(78 points)

• Don Alvaro Corbero Status 3 leader (1)
• Status 2 leader (2)
• Status 1 leader (3)
• 4 groups of Guerrilla Skirmishers

• Donna Ursula Status 2 leader (4)
• Status 1 leader (5)
• 4 groups of Guerrilla Skirmishers

• Moveable deployment point
• Father Francisco (holy man)

(78 points)

The French force has three dedicated foragers. These are status 0 leaders and are activated on the turn of their counter like any other leader. If contacted by an enemy they will surrender (no doubt reluctantly). These foragers move independently gathering supplies from the following areas:

• Field with crops (3). 5 forage points from each on a task roll of 5.
• Olive grove (1). 5 forage points on a task roll of 5.
• Cattle (1). 5 forage points on a task roll of 6. The forager must stay with the cattle and can no longer forage.
• Pigs (1). 5 forage points on a task roll of 6. The forager must stay with the pigs and can no longer forage.
• Farmhouse (1). 10 forage points on a task roll of 10 but the forager must gain access to the house first.

Each area can only be foraged once, and once foraged the forager must return to the wagon to either offload their supplies or stay in charge of the livestock they have collected. The French player decides when they have collected enough and will leave. 30 points are required to gather the full number of sacks of supplies during this day of the campaign. 15 means that only half the number of sacks are gathered for this campaign turn. Less than 15 means no supplies have been gathered.

To get access to the house, the forager must demand entry from the farmer or his wife using the minor character rules from the rulebook. If refused, the forager cannot access unless a full group of troops forces their way in, in which case the farmer will retreat to the balcony to fire his fowling piece every tiffin card, as suggested in the minor character rules.

Don Corbero is rushing his men to the farm having been alerted to the presence of the French. Mirroring the rules in the scenario “Sweep the Table” roll 2d6 every time his counter is drawn. When the total reaches 12 the Spanish may begin deploying on any subsequent leader activation. If the French trigger the farmer to retreat to his farmhouse balcony, he will fire his weapon to alert the guerrilleros to hurry, allowing an immediate additional 2d6 roll to add to the deployment trigger total.

The French secondary deployment point is the forage wagon. This may be activated and moved in the normal way by the French player, but once moved no other unit may use it as a deployment point.

The French player can claim a 100% victory if they gather 30 foraging points and withdraw from the table with the wagon. This is reduced by one quarter for every 10 casualties suffered by the French. The Spanish can claim a 100% victory if they force the French to withdraw with less than 15 foraging points, and a 50% victory if the French withdraw with more than 15 but less than 30 foraging points.

Diop's plan is to ignore the villagers and take the crops from the field while the voltiguers and chasseurs provide cover at the far side of the farm, working as quickly as possible before they are challenged by the guerilleros. The action opens with the French voltigeurs deploying and heading to the far side of the village to provide cover for as the foragers start to work on the fields, clearing them as Dumont's company of Chasseurs deploy by the forage wagon.

Don Alvaro arrives at the windmill and begins deploying on the hill overlooking the farm, his plan is focus French attention on him while Donna Ursula works down the far side of the field wall and take the French in the flank and rear. Taking up position on the hillside Don Alvaro's guerrilleros inflict casualties on Courbet's men and he withdraws one group back towards the farm as Dumont's Chasseurs move up to the wall to hold the Spanish at bay as Ursula's section arrives on the flank.

A prolonged firefight develops between Dumont's company and Don Alvaro's men initially take the upper hand, killing numbers of the chasseurs for little loss in return, but the chasseurs successfully hold off the guerrilleros and the foragers having returned the with the booty from the fields now move towards the livestock. Diop himself now arrives on the field and assesses the situation. Seeing Ursula moving quickly down his flank he leads his company towards the southern wall of the fields. Courbet's voltigeurs also head into the fields on the southern side of the farm.

The firefight at the east end of the farm continues, and Dumont struggles to stop his men firing so that he can reposition them. When he does they get entangled with the cows in the field breaking his line. To make matters worse, Don Alvaro's sniping fire continues to take it's toll dropping chasseur and after chasseur and eventually leading one group to break and run back. Ursula continues to move quickly along the southern flank but struggles to bring all her troops with her, and Don Alvaro dispatches one of his officers to take a group into the centre of the village.

It seems like the farm is about to be overrun as the guerrilleros rush quickly around the French forces. Diop wheels his column around and beats the charge, rushing towards Ursula who evades successfully. Courbet's voltigeurs move back to the road the head off, and the Spanish are hampered by their limited control and ability to mobilise all their forces. Diop wheels his column into line and fires a volley at Ursula, it isn't devastating but does shock the Spanish and they continue to retreat. With leaders moving across to increase control of their troops, the remaining Spanish move around to the south side of the wall to join with Ursula's isolated group.

Diop reforms his men into column and chases after Ursula's retreating group but they continue to evade. Meanwhile the other guerrilleros groups on the south side of the farm pour across the wall into the fields and come crashing into hand-to-hand combat with Courbet's voltigeurs who fail to evade and are comprehensive beaten by the ferocity of the assault, falling back and opening a space for the guerrilleros to dash for the wagon. On the other side of the field, Dumont's persistent fire is slowly taking a toll on Don Alvaro's men, forcing one group fall back. Recognising the threat to the wagons, Dumont detaches one group to rush back and ward the guerrilleros off.

Rushing forward, the guerrilleros grab control of the now full wagon and make a dash to escape. Dumont's chasseurs catch up and the despite their small numbers chase them off, firing a devastating volley into their rear which forces them to break. The voltigeurs in the field have suffered many casualties from sniping fire, so Diop leads his column back across the walls into the field, turning quickly into line, and fires another devastating volley wiping out one group and forcing the others to retreat. The battle is over with the forage secured and the guerrilleros forced to retreat.

A partial victory for the French who escape with the full quota of supplies but at a greater cost in men that they would have liked. Based on their losses this represents a 50% victory for the French.