Wednesday 11 December 2019

Battle of Naseby - Battle Report

Naseby - a fairly straightforward ruck, really, as its a classic line up and have at each other.

Royalists put all of their cavalry on their left flank, with the infantry lined up across the rest of the table. Parliament went for cavalry on both flanks, infantry slightly more weighted to their left


Deployment and battle lines







The cavalry on both sides begins jostling for position, before Cromwell initiates a charge, the Cavaliers countercharge THEN find themselves charged in the flank by a second regiment of horse. A gigantic ruck ensues, which would see the cavalry battering each other all game on that side of the
field.


Meanwhile, the rest of the armies on both sides advance and begin trading shots. One unit crosses the hedge to engage Okeys Dragoons and makes short work of them





 More Ironsides push through the ranks to get at the enemy



Royalists brace themselves for the charge


On the other side of the table, the rest of the cavalry scrap it out, whilst Rupert calls them forward





Royalist centre advances



Parliament cavalry threatens shotte, but can't get near enough due to the pikes



Cromwell finally sees off Rupert, who gallops off table in pursuit of baggage and such


Lone unit of Cavalier horse, left getting shot to crap


Lines begin to close, whilst things heat up






Both sides advance in the mist






Once cleared, lines are quickly restored but an almighty fight breaks out between the infantry on the Parliament left




Ironsides take an absolute battering and break



Charles and his guard oversee the centre. Its not looking good though.



Rupert returns and gets an absolute fucking kicking for his trouble. Even Cromwell himself got stuck into this one


Superb Royalist rolling.


Charles finds his centre getting flanked and those puritan chaps getting rather close.


Whilst on the Royalist right, Parliament begins to break through.


The killer blow - the Eastern Association smashes across the rear of the Royalist force, who find themselves in dire straits and are forced to retreat. 



Then there is a breakthrough on the other flank from Parliament and its all over.





Big win to Parliament. Ironsides are NAILS, absolutely took every charge they received, fought back, kept it together and rallied for the end phase. Ruperts aggression played against him there.






2 comments:

  1. Great looking game, sounds super! Sorry I've missed your recent posts, managed to smash my phone up,just getting used to the new one!
    Best Iain

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    1. Its only when you don't have a phone, that you notice just how much you need it :)

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