ECW revenge

[FierceKitty]

The Battle of Chipping Sodbury on the Marsh, 1643. In picture one, Byron's regiment of horse prepare to chastise Cromwell's Eastern Association Horse. Huxley's dragoons should have helped, but Bathurst's regiment shot them into a disorderly rabble and sent them running. Picture two shows an unusually unready Parliamentary line facing a well-deployed Royalist centre. The clincher was the right flank. A Roundhead ambush failed to live up to its commander's intentions, and Generals Hopton and Prince Rupert swept away the rebel horse, exposing their flank and shattering their morale. God save the House of Stuart!
Figures Pendraken, Newline, and Irregular Miniatures; mat Tiny Wargames; rules home-brewed ("Ten More Sons!"). Rebel commander my bloodthirsty wife, who clobbered me yesterday with Attila's Huns and needed a reminder of who was called Alexander in this marriage.

[FierceKitty]

The right wing.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Good stuff

[mmcv]

That man of blood will have his comeuppance yet!

[DecemDave]

His Majesty doth thank you mightily for your most illustrious service.  Our Kingdom may yet be saved.

[fred.]

Good stuff. Both looks like lots of troops and lots of space for manoeuvre. 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Good figure, pity the wrong side won! 

[FierceKitty]

Rather absolutist monarchy than fanatical theocracy.

[FierceKitty]

Rematch today at Little Tonker on the Heath. Another Cavalier victory, and we're closing in on the rebels in London.

[FierceKitty]

Phew - the Royalists have won five - five! - victories in a row for His Majesty. With each of us leading at different times. Today was largely a matter of luck, since I had the opportunity to sneak two cavalry ambushes into place before the enemy started marching onto the field, and that won the day before my foot even got within shot range; Roundhead regiments went down like corn before the scythe.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Might I suggest that there is somthing wrong with either the rules or lists if one side consistantly wins.

[FierceKitty]

They've won in the past. I think fate is just playing football with the round heads. Lee insists on a rematch, being firmly persuaded that the "ring of steel" approach will beat a frequently uncontrollable enemy, particularly one that is light in the artillery department.

[FierceKitty]

The run of Cavalier victories was abruptly halted today. We had to fight on a constricted front (river in spate cut off part of the field) and the encounter was very one-sided indeed.