More Renaissance Warfare

We selected two roughly equal armies from the troops used last week.
Chris' French had 4 Gendarmes, 4 Heavy Cav, 6 tercios of 1 pike & 2 shot.
Jim's Imperialists had 6 pike units, 6 shot, 4 halbardiers, 8 heavy cavalry.

The Imperialists are on the near side.

The French advance their centre holding their cavalry back.
The Imperialists move their cavalry to the flanks,& advance their pikes to the line of the farmhouse & put arqubusiers in the farm.

Left of centre the French infantry has broken most of the Imperialist shot, but the line of pikes holds firm.  Gendarmes have driven the Imperialist arqubusiers back on the right of the farm, but the pikes prevent further advance.

In the centre the infantry fight is still indecisive with the French superior shot negated by the Imperialist bigger pike blocks. On the right the imperialists are now attacking though wary of the Gendarmes.  On the left half the Imperialist cavalry are moving around the wood on the French right flank.

On the right, the gendarmes have broken the end pike block & broken thru the Imperialist line.
MAD continues in the centre.  On the lrft, the Imperialist flanking move got ;lucky & broke half teh French horse there.

On the left, a French counterattack has turned the tables on the Imperialist flanking move.  The Gendarmes have fallen back to avoid a flank attack by the Imperialist horse.

On the right the French have got on top with the Gendarme's renewed attack breaking half the Imperialist horse & their infantry finally seeing off the halbardiers on the end of their line.  The halbardiers on the Imperialist left have also been beaten off.  But the French gains on teh flanks are totally negated by the sudden collapse of their centre.  More than half their infantry units there have been broken, so the remainder fail a divisional Break test.  Despite heavy losses, the Imperialists have won a close run & very enjoyable little battle.