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!
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| The armies at deployment |
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| 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!!
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| 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.... |
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| French Knights |
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| Again! |
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| The main French line. |
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| Game turn 4 where the Pike Blocks have slammed into each other in the middle. |
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| PUSH OF PIKE!! |
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| View from my side! |
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| Ross' French archers moving into position- these guys caused me all sorts of problems! |
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| The flower of Spanish Knighthood- about to hit the Flower of French Knighthood!! |
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| 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. |
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| Bird's eye view of the pikes. |
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| My one area of success- chasing Ross' light cavalry away |
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| Get him! ( they didn't before the rest of the army collapsed) |
Very cool!!!
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