American War of Independance

We thought it would be nice to have battle where terrain mattered for a change, so we decided to attack America. 
Colonials & French: Chris & Mark
Brits: Jim & Mike 

Pics from the Brit's side.
The Brits have Indians on their left, cavlry on their right, regular infantry in the centre.
The Colonial infantry are on the Allie's right (left of pic), the French innfatry & cavalry on their left.

On thenear flank, the Indians have advanced into the woods to skirmish with the Colonial infantry.
The centre is a no mans land doninated by artillery.
Both sides advance infnatry into the wood right od centre,
Both sides advance their cavalry on the far flank.

On the near flank the Indians have given ground & suffered losses, but have alsom inflicted significant casualties on the Colonials. 
In the centre long range fire has been indecisive.
In  the big wood the French British infatry are hotly engaged.
The French are getting the upper hand in the cavalry fight.

On the near flank the Indians have been pulled back & the British infnatry have moved in for the kill against the weakened colonials.
On the far flank, the Brits are getting the best of the infnatry fight, the French are winning the cavalry fight.

On the near flank the Colonial infantry is defeated & is in retreat.
On the far flank, the French cavalry has saved their foot from destruction making that flank a draw.

The Brits have more units left fit to fight & claim a narrow victory.
The decisive move by the Brits was maximising the value of their Indians by getting them to fight in the right terrain for them. 


 

30 Years War: Empire v. Swedes

Swedes: Mike, Chris & SteveJ
Empire: JIm & Mark

The Empire is on the near side. They have rsted their right on a wood, concerated their cavalry on their left & kept a central reserve of Landschneks.
The Swedes have cavalry on bioth flanks of their pike & shot plus musketeers on their extreme left flank.

Both sides are advancing their left flanks.

On the near flank the Empire have charged home.  The Swedes have sent soem cavalry accross the front of their pike blocks to assist theri right flank.

Intense hand to hand fighting on the left, exchanges of fire on the right.

The dice gods have not favoured the Empire & theri left is crumbling. 

Casualties are mounting all along the line, but the Swedes are now gaining the upper hand. In the next turn the Empire fail their army morale test.

Medieval 28mm

York: Jim & Mike
Lancaster: Chris & SteveJ 

York on this side of table, Jim on left, Mike on right.
Lancaster on far side, SteveJ v. Jim & Chris v. Mike.

On the far flank, Mike has attacked Chris left flank.
On this flank, the ingfnatyr are exchanging bow fire, except for one charge by York men at arms on the left end of the line.  

On the near flank the Lanc's bow fire has been far better than York'sY& the infnatry charge also failed.
Left of centre the Lanc's cavalry has advanced. 
Right of centre there is gap in the York line but the Lancs have not advanced into it.
On the far flank the Lanc's line has been hit in front by foot & horse while more foot wrap around their flank.

On the far flank the Lanc's infantry is being rolled up  by the flank attack
On the enar flank, York has had their archers almost all destroyed & have fallen back onto the ridge.

On the far flank both sides are regrouping after the success of the York's attack.
On the near flank the lancs ahve followed up Yorks' retreat, but he Yorks have countercharged.

On the far flank York has renewed their attack & the Lanc' left has broken.
On the near flank, the the combat was desperate & close, but it was York that broke first. 

So both sides have had one of their 2 battles broken.  York has more units left fit to fight than the Lancs, but the superiority was small enough for the Lancs to claim a draw.