Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Wars of the Roses 6 players

 Each player had a small battle of mixed arms witht heir starting zone decided by lot.

Lancastrians:  Chris near LN corner.  Renfrey near RH corner. Mark middle RHS.
York: SteveJ far LH corner. SteveD middle LHS.  Mike far RH corner. 
Lancs:  Chris & Renfrey advanced towards SteveD while Mark fell back across the river.
York: SteveD formed a defensive line on & to the left of the wooded hill while SteveJ & Mike march down the table to support him. 
The Lancs are assaulting the wooded hill from 2 sides while pressuring the Yorks right flank & forming a defensive line behind the stream on their right.
The battle has turned sideways across the table resulting in a compressed front.
On the left SteveJ has reinforced SteveD & Chris' attack is petering out.
In the centre Renfrey & Mark broke the first line, but are now making very slow progress through the wood as SteveJ supports SteveD.
On the right, Mark has fallen back behind the stream & there is bit of a stalemate.
On the left both Chris & SteveD's infantry are almost destroyed.
Indecisive heavy fighting continues in the wood.
Mike has forced a crossing of the stream with his extra heavy cavalry, but the Lancs are counterattacking.
The brutal fight in the centre has resulted in mutual destruction.
Both sides are pretty much spent & the battle is declared a draw.

The Lancs seemed to have the upper hand at the start when they took the corner of the wood witht ehir first charge, but SteveJ arrived in time to stem the tide & neither side could find a breakthrough on the narrow front. 






2 comments:

Jonathan Freitag said...

What rules were in play for this battle?

Jim Gandy said...

Our own house rules (M2M = Marathon to Mafeking). They are very efficient, we got thru 15 turns in 2 hours.