Anoher play-test battle: this time a Parliamentarian column escorting siege guns is almost ambushed by a Royalist force, but the trap is sprung a little too soon…

The Full Table

The Parliamentarian column is marching along the road to the left, the Royalists are coming from the right.

Left, right; left, right; left...

The Puritan Horse are at the head of the column

The Royalist Forlorn Hope ambush party

But the trap is sprung too soon and the Roundheads get to act now.

The front of the column

General Kill-Sin Rhapsody’s horse will have to hold the front of the column whilst I win the battle elsewhere.

First step: hold the hedgerow

Second step: send the Border Foot up the flank

The Musketeers (Commanded Shot) will protect the guns

And the Pioneers will have to hold the rear against the dastardly Cavaliers!

Reinforcements

As the guns seem safe (for the moment) some of the Musketeers can be re-deployed to polish off the enemy cavalry threatening the Pioneers.

Some success in the centre

The Fly-Fornication Horse punch through the enemy centre; two battalia of Borders foot prepare to engage the enemy from the flank.

But the enemy has also got over the hedge...

…so must be held off by the Fight-the-Good-Fight Horse.

Letting them come to us at the front of the column

Must hurry up and win the battle in the centre!

The head of the column facing a lot of enemy troops

The enemy cavalry attack!

The Performe-Thy-Vows Horse are charged by the Staplehurst Horse: ungodly fops, the lot of them!

Border Foot not winning the game fast enough!

Hmmm...

The Fight-The-Good-Fight Horse did not fight a good fight and are off the table flying for their lives.

Charge!

Having dealt with the enemy cavalry fops, the Performe-Thy-Vows Horse get a bit enthusiastic and charge uncontrollably into the enemy foot.

These they dispose of, but...

Now they are hit from the flank and destroyed

The perils of the uncontrollable pursuit!

Oh dear...

Here we made a mistake. The enemy horse (the Mitford Horse IIRC) should have been pursuing off the table, not right into my flank. Ah well, let’s assume they had a good series of cards, so rallied and then charged!

And gone!

The two enemy flank charges cost me ten victory medals and therefore the game!

And it had been going so well!