Empire: Chris & Mike.
Swedes: Mark & Steve.
Same armies as last Thursday, mostly different generals, forces on opposite sides of the table & this time map deployment.
The Empire is on the far side deployed with their infantry on their left & cavalry on their right.
The Swedes have rested their left flank on the orchards in the centre.
The Empire's cavalry have advanced on the near flank with musketeers pushing thru the village to contest the orchard. The Swedes deploy to defend the orchards & the gap between them & advance infantry on the far right flank. The artillery exchange shots in the centre.
The Empires first attempt to charge thru the gap between the orchards has been beaten off by the Swedish cavalry. The Swedish musketeers are defending the forward orchard. The Sedes are moving more infantry & some cavalry to the far right.
Another attempt by the Empire's cavalry to break thru has been beaten off.
The Empire's cavalry have thrown in the Polish Hussars in another attempt to break thru.
On the far flank the Swedish infantry have charged & broken the end tercio & are wrapping around the end of the Empire's line.
On the near flank the Polish hussars have been repulsed. On the far flank the second tercio has broken under coverging fire from 3 Swedish tercios. In the cnetre the Empire' musketeers havefinally been cleared form the orchard, but its too little too late, the Empire have lost over half their units & fail their army morale. test. This time the Swedes have won.
The Swedes used the orchards to good effect to prevent bottle up the Empires horse & buy time for a methodical outfanking of the Empire's left. The Empire had more troops, but the Swedes better quality. The two armies have equal points & have won one each, so that's a nice endorsment fo the points system.
1 comment:
Good to see a win for the Swedes, as well as this relatively infrequently gamed era on the tabletop!
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