We used the same armies as last week, but changed the terrain and Jim took over from Steve joining Mark on the Royalist side. We found a few issues with the pike & shot rules last week & tried out some tweeks.
Both sides put their cavalry at this end of the table avoiding the hedgerow.
The royalist left is deployed on a ridge with their artillery.
The Parliament's detached musketeers are in on their extreme left flank on the far side of the stream.
In the centre the Royalist foot advance enticing the RH Roundhead cavalry to charge the P&S on the right of the wood. The cavalry bounced off the P&S & the LH cavalier brigade charged to take advantage of the roundhead losses against the foot the Royalists' reserve P&S behind their centre is moving left to counter the detached musketeers. The rest of their left wing waits on the hill with their artillery deployed.
The other cavalry fight is still indecisive.
In the centre the Royalist have charged en masse.
On the left Partliament's attempt to storm the ridge has met with a storm of fire. One P&S regiment didn't even charge home, the other got to grips but is not doing well.
The musketeers have been delayed by poor command dice & the terrain.
The infantry in the centre are still slogging it out.
On the left the Royalists are now advancing on Parliament's second line having destroyed the first.
In the centre The Royalists have supported their P&S on their left & the Parliament's front line foot has finally broken. With that Parliament failed their army morale test having only 12 of 30 sub-units left unbroken while the Royalists have had just 4 cavalry units & 2 guns broken.
The rules tweaks were mainly to do with restricting the what we can do with the mixed P&S units, that is the shot have to stay in contact with the pikes & not be used as detached sub-units. The tweaks worked so well the game was over by 9pm.
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