Wednesday, April 05, 2023

Rennassiance Era

 We recycled last week's Italian terrain for a Rennassiance battle.

The Empire had sent an army to Italy to deal with the uppity Duke Lorenzo & his army of mercenaries. Mark & Mike command the Empire army with 4 large tercios of pike & shot, 2 units of Lanschencks, 2 musketeers, 4 Cuirassiers, 4 medium cavalry & 2 guns.
Jim & Chris command Lorenzo's army with 6 smaller tercios, 2 musketeers, 10 medium cavalry & 2 guns. Both armies have regular command with 3 generals.
Lorenzo made a map of his deployment, the Empire put their troops down, then Lorenzo.
The Empire put their foot on the ridge on the right with their guns & Cuirasiers on their left & the rest of the cavalry behind their right.
Loenzo put most of his cavalry on his right, a thin line of foot among the woods on his left & his main force in the centre behind the village. 
Lorenzo immediately advanced his right & centre.  The Empire counter charged with their cuirassiers & also advanced towards the village.
The Empire Is now advancing the infantry on their right & is sending their reserve cavalry to their left.ir right. 
Despite superior numbers, Lorenzo's cavalry is being held relentlessly superior Empirical dice.
Lorenzo's musketeers have taken the village, but his attack on the right of it has been held up by Empire musketeers & artillery armed with hot dice.
Lorenzo's inability throw any decent dice allowed the Empire's cuirassiers held on long enough for the rest of the Empire's cavalry arrive..
The Empire's musketeers have finally been broken, but not before inflicting crippling casualties on the tercio. 
The Empire is making progress taking the village, but on the far flank Lorenzo's artillery is inflicting serious casualties on the advancing tercios. 
On the right, Lorenzo's cavalry has finally overcome the cuirassiers though with high losses. They still outnumbered the Empire's second cavalry brigade & charged again still with an advantage, but the dice curse remained & they immediately lost another 2 units. 
Next the village, the tercio weakened by musketeers was broken by Landchnecks who were in turn beaten by the second line tercio.  But he 3rd tercio has been shaken by artillery.
On the far flank the Empire has attacked the thin line in the woods.
On the right, bad luck continued to dog Lorenzo's cavalry which is now reduced to just 2 units of 10.
In the centre Lorenzo's tercios have been broken.
Only on the left has Lorenzo had any success.  Although eventually losing his gunners to musket fire, his left has seen off the Empire's attacks there & is now advancing.  But the losses on the right & centre are enough to break his army. The Empire has won decisively.





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