Unlike many others, I suspect, we did zero prep and decided to do it a week before the game occurred. Handily, we had enough stuff between us to get a respectable couple of forces together. The only way to do things, frankly.
Bit of a photo dump, this, in truth................
Landsknechts milling about in the gardens
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Imperialist cavalry advance
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Imperialist main force on the advance as well
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Waiting French. Will they move at all? Lets see.
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Advance cannons begin putting down some fire
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View from the far side of the French forces.
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.............and a view from the opposite side of the table. Rogue tape measure not a participant in events.
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Imperialist Landsknecht on the way
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More French line
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Imperial advances
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French try to make an advance to meet
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MORTAR DISASTER
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Imperial milling about in the centre.
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Nice empty patch of field? Not sure whats going on there.
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Something vaguely resembling a line begins to develop.
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Hooray, a fight!
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French start advancing around the back of the houses.
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Some of the centre begins engaging.
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Stand off ensues on the French right flank
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Imperials begin to press. Or try to.
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Bit of a ruck occuring on the French left flank as the battle for the HQ heats up
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Yes, that organ gun will cause some trepidation.
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HQ's begin trying to get some glory.
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Was all v messy at this point. Seriously, neither side was really giving good command results
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Move cavalry battering each other.
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.............and the French commander is captured and shanghaied away quick by the Imperial light cavalry.
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Ah yes, the infamous French right flank. This is where they finished - about two moves from where they started.
March to the guns, Msrs, March to the guns.
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Imperials start pressing their advantage in the centre.
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Inside the HQ were cowering/bravely defending (delete as appropriate) unit of French Zweihanders. You can knock, but I don't think they'll answer.
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And with that, the game was done. Chaos, frankly, pure chaos. Neither side really had a glorious push of command and there was a huge amount of confused milling about, advance, retreat and all the fun stuff that we want.
It finished fairly close to the actual battle TBH - confused!
Great fun though and good to have done.
Wonderful photos.
ReplyDelete"neither side was really giving good command results To my superficial understanding of this Italian Wars this sounds perfectly appropriate. 😁