Wednesday, January 18, 2023

30 Years War

Mike set up tonight's battle between the Swedes & the Empire;
Empire: SteveJ, SteveD, Mitch:
5 P&S (10 modules ea), 2 THSwords (4m), 4 EH cav (3m) , 3H cav (3m), all regulars.
Swedes: Chris, Mike, Jim:
6 P&S (8 mods ea), 3 musketeers (2m), 8 H cav (3m), all veterans.

The Empire is on the right.  Both have have all their cavalry on the far flank.
The Swedes advance their foot but half their cavalry back partially on a ridge. The Empire advance their cavalry slowed by a wood & make small adjustments to their foot.
The Swedish foot have advance into musket range.
Some Empire cavalry turned to threaten the enemy's foot in flank, but some Swedish cavalry have advanced off the ridge to counter that. 
The Empire foot have charged rather than suffer the superior Swedish firepower.  Extreme dice rolls resulted in immediate rout of the supported units on each side's left flank.
The centre of the Empire's foot line has also suffered an extreme dice event & broken. 
The advanced Swedish cavalry have been broken. 
The Empire cavalry have changed the now outnumbered Swedish cavalry.  Two more Swedish cavalry units have broken & the rest are in trouble & doomed.
The two Empire tercios each side of the break thru have broken leaving just 1 tercio & the 2 handed swordsmen left of their foot & now shaken as more than half the formation has been lost.
The Empire's foot are doomed, but so is the Swedish cavalry.

It was judged that the remaining Empire foot have no chance of holding out before the Empire's cavalry have mopped up the enemy horse, so the Empire can only retreat covered by their cavalry, conceding the battle to the Swedes.  







 

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