CHOTUSITZ 1742

Austrians: Chris & Mark, 16 infantry, 4 grenz, 10 cavalry, 4 batteries.
Prussians: Mitch & SteveJ, 16 infantry, 10 cavalry, 6 batteries.
The Austrian cavalry are +1. The Prussian infantry are +1 for fire & HTH & also well drilled.

The Austrians make their plans before battle.
Their army is on the left, infantry in the centre with cavalry on both flanks as historical deployment.
The Prussians have 6 infantry 2 batteries around the village, 6 cavalry over by the lake, 3 cavalry on the road on the near right & the main army marching down the road from top right.

The Austrian immediately charged the Prussian cavalry on their left flank.  They opened fire on the division around Chotuzitz with skirmishers & artillery as their infantry advanced obliquely to their left.  The Prussians stood their ground around Chotusitz as their left wing cavalry came up in support.  On the far flank, the Prussian cavalry were getting the worst of the cavalry melee so some of the infnatry deployed to their right to support their cavalry.  

On the far flank the Prussian cavalry ahs been all but destroyed.  The Prussian left wing cavalry has deployed to support the infantry around Chotusitz.   
The Austrian right wing cavalry is moving to support their centre.

On the far flank the Austrian cavalry has fallen back rather than attack a wall of Prussian infantry.
Around Chotusitz the both sides' infantry are taking heavy casualties as their cavalry form up behind them.

Both sides have squared off into parallel lines facing each other.

The Prussian cavalry have charged the Austrian foot in the centre.
An Austrian cavalry unit charged through a gap in the line to take out a battery & an infantry unit before they had completed their deployment. 

The Prussian charge broke the first line of Austrian foot, but the Austrian cavalry had charged & beaten the cavalry on their left & flanking them forcing them to fall back.  In the centre the infanrty of each are blasting away at long range.

On the near flank both sides' infantry & cavalry divisions are spent, being below half strength & the fighting there has ceased.
In the centre both sides have lost units in the firefight, but it it is not yet decisive.  On the far flank the Austrian cavalry has finally made a massed attack on the thin blue line of Prussian infantry.

The Prussian infantry put up a stubborn fight against the Austrian cavalry, beating off half of it, but the other half eventually won & this combined with the attrition in the centre broke the Prussian army's morale giving the Austrians a costly victory.  The Prussians had 14 formed units broken to the Austrian's 12.