Poles: Jim with cavalry on their left, Mark with the their infantry on their right.
Turks: Steve with their cavalry on their right, Chris with their infantry on their left.
The Poles are on the right. The battle started with a light cavalry skirmish in the centre. The Poles made a general but measured advance all along the line.
The main lines paused & watched while the light horse slugged it out. The assistance of musketeers allowed the outnumbered Polish light horse to destroy the Turkish horse archers.
With the Turkish horse archers out of the way Poles resumed their advance on their left, with the winged hussars leading the charge & breaking or pushing back their opponents. But on the far flank it is the Turkish infantry that is advancing.
The Winged Hussars have not had it all their own way & the Turkish cavalry is fighting back
In the infantry fight the Poles are holding their own though giving ground on the far flank.
Losses have mounted all along the line on both sides, but in general the Poles have the edge.
The Turkish cavalry has fought back well to even out the cavalry fight, but good coordination of Polish pike & shot has got on top in the infantry fight & it is the Turks who break.
This is our biggest action yet with these rules with 54 units on the table, but battles with these rules really rip along & it was fought in less than 2 hours. It's a quite different style of game to Hail Whoever, but they both provide a good fast game. It will be interesting to see how Hail Whoever feels when we play it again.
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