7YW PICK UP BATTLE

We recycled the Chotusitz battlefield from last week & selected two smaller armies.
Mark, Mitch & SteveJ: Prussians
Jim, Mike & Chris: Austrians
The Prussians have 10 line infantry, grenadiers, 2 -cuirassier, 4 dragoons, 2 hussars & 4 batteries.
The Austrians have 12 line infantry, 2 yegers, 4 cuirassiers, 4 dragoons,& 4 batteries.
The Prussian infantry are all +1 for shooting & HTH, their grenadiers have better morale.

The Prussians make their plans.

The Prussian foot stand their ground while their left flank cavalry move to their right.
The Austrians send yegers into the village & have begun to send their right cavalry to their left.

The yegers have advanced thru the village to harass the Prussian left.  The Austrian cavalry have advanced within charge range of the enemy cavalry.
The Prussian infantry had begun to advance. 

The Austrian cavalry charge was initially disastrous, but the second line is holding the line.
The yegers are really hurting the Prussian left.

The cavalry fight has turned into MAD.
The Prussians have made a mess of the centre of the Austrian front line with musketry & artillery. but the Prussian left is being hit hard by yegers & artillery& now infan

The cavalry of both sides is spent.
The infantry is slugging it out in the centre, both sides losing heavy casualties.

It really was a matter of the dice gods but it was the Prussians who broke first.

Curiously, the Prussians did better in the cavalry fight despite the Austrians having heavier cavalry, while the Austrians won the infantry fight despite their disadvantage in firepower. 
After the failure of the initial Austrian cavalry charge things looked grim for the Austrians - their best asset was losing & the Prussian infantry was advancing with their superior firepower.  But the Austrian cavalry fought back & while eventually losing the surviving enemy cavalry was spent & useless.  Meanwhile, the Austrian yegers on the other flank were probably the decisive difference.  They not only took out troops by breaking them with musket fire, but they forced the Prussians to deplete their front line to face the threat to their flank.