FK&P AAR: The King's Secrets

Lots of pike-and-shot content on here at the moment. No apologies for that: I’m playing all my games via Zoom at the moment, and grid based games are a lot easier to manage than freeform games such as IABSM or Q13. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible!

Anyhoo, on to today’s post: an after action report from my latest game of For King & Parliament : another scenario from the Marlowe to Maidenhythe pack, this time scenario 11: The King’s Secrets.

The basic premise is that the Royalists (played remotely by my opponent) have to get a stagecoach carrying secret documents off the opposite end of the table. Blocking their way are a Parliamentarian militia supported by local villagers…

The Parliamentarian troops block The Gappe

That’s my Rabble on the left. I should have put them inside the Dutch horse not out on the wing.

The Royalists. The markers make it easier to play over Zoom.

Parliamentarian Dutch Horse retreat after failing to break the enemy line

View from the Roundhead right. I need to hold them here whilst winning in the centre.

The cards hate me.

With my left collapsing, the two centres collide.

For a moment, it looks as if the Roundhead centre will collapse. Just one more Disorder will do it, but I cannot find it anywhere!

The stagecoach has a clear path off the table

Overview of the situation at the end of the game

Even after the disastrous cards on my left, I came close to winning the game in the centre: but the Parliamentarians remained resolute and I couldn’t get the disorder I needed.

Although at the end of the game I had curled around his main line and was about to roll it up, other Royalist units had punched a hole for the stagecoach and bodyguard Cuirassiers to get through.

Another great game, despite the result!