Band of Wargame Brothers: ITALIAN WARS- SPANISH VS FRENCH

ITALIAN WARS- SPANISH VS FRENCH

Ross wanted to give his French a run so my Spanish emerged to teach those nuisances from the north a lesson in respect.

With a combination of light cavalry, heavy knights, loads of arquebus and pike, I was against Ross' French who had just as many pike, more knights, less light cavalry and more archers!!!

I weighted my right flank with the bulk of my army- but Ross had guessed where the bulk of my army would be...so there was not going to be any fancy business. This was gonna be a bloodbath!

The armies at deployment

My Spanish Pike ( I know there are some Swiss Flags in there - i was short!)

Ross' French carried the honours for the day although my Pike in triple ranks gave a very good account of themselves against his Swiss pike. Normally my Italian and Spanish Pike have really just been a speed hump for the Swiss to push over and keep going.....but not today- I not only held his Swiss up but caused them some considerable casualties- but unfortunately they failed their morale and finally broke. Damn!!

My knights with the jinetes in front. My Spanish knights hit the French hard and it looked like I was going to beat them....so I attached my general to deliver the coup de grace....

French Knights

Again!

The main French line.

Game turn 4 where the Pike Blocks have slammed into each other in the middle.

PUSH OF PIKE!!

View from my side!

Ross' French archers moving into position- these guys caused me all sorts of problems!

The flower of Spanish Knighthood- about to hit the Flower of French Knighthood!!

Heavy metal!! I attached my general which gave me a slight advantage in melee- unfortunately the general got himself badly wounded, which meant that my knights were without a commander for two turns- in confusion and wavering morale they couldn't charge to finish off the retreating French nights....Ross' bowmen then shot them to bits.