As you may have read in
Fran and
Lee's posts recently, The Rejects got together last Sunday for probably our last game of the year and what a great game it was too!!!
It was my first game of Posties new rules "By God or Might, we will Prevail" (Fran, Surj and Ian have all played before) The rules worked quite well and just need a little tidying up, which I'm sure Postie will have done when next we play the game.
As my post is the last of the 3 I tried to keep it a little more simple than my usual posts, but there's still far too many pics and there could/should have been more!!
"Prince Rupert's Army has been trying to bring the Earl of
Essex to battle, thus forcing Essex to retire from the Midlands and giving the
Royalist forces in the area some breathing space to fortify and re-supply
various garrisons cut off by the Parliamentarian forces. A win over the
Parliamentarians would give Rupert more fame and glory if he were to beat
Essex. Essex as you can imagine will want to hang onto his stranglehold of the
Midlands and its Royalist Garrisons, which are near to collapse. Both sides have
come to the conclusion that it is now inevitable that a pitched battle is going
to take place and both sides have built up their forces, confident of victory.
They have now arrived at Turners Farm near the village of Stow ready to do
battle".
A view of the Royalist flank from the left.
And from the right.....
Lord Henry Wilmot’s command (Me)
The Queen's, Prince Rupert's and behind The Prince of Wales' Horse
All were veteran troops
Royalist troops cross the bridge as support
Commanded by Robert Dormer, Earl of Carnarvern. Colonel Thomas
Howard's and Lord Brougham Horse, the later being a Raw unit.
Lee’s troops led Lord Digby advance to close with the enemy
Sir Arthur
Aston's Veteran Horse at the rear and two Trained unit in the front
Nicolas Crisp's and Sir Thomas
Tyldesley's.
My and John’s Horse are set to charge.
The Parliamentarian's Surj and Dave move forward!!
Unlike these raw recruits, who continue to refuse to
bloody move!
Come on Lord Broughton!!
Oh crap! John does his usual jammy git throws and smashes
both regts of my Horse
who both route back through both my other units of
horse. I could be in trouble here??? Gulp!
Damn!! I was right it doesn’t look good, but the only
good thing is all
the Horse are disordered and cannot charge this turn.
But they can this turn, in desperation I charged Howard's Horse
unit in column.
While John's unit Sir John Maldrum's charged my disordered Prince Rupert's Horse.
Prince Rupert's are destroyed and the charge carries on into the Prince of Wales Horse.
Prince Rupert’s Lifeguard, small but deadly move to the
left flank to counter Fran’s Dragoons.
Lee and Fran Horse smash into each other on the left
flank
The Royalist Infantry are still waiting for a decisive victory on the flanks to move forward.
The melee swings around in my favour, my column
surprisingly beats and destroys the best
unit on the table Sir Arthur Hasslerigg's
Lobsters, killing poor Sir Arthur in the fighting.
John threw at least 10 dice
and scored no hits, while I threw 3 dice and got 3 hits!!
Fran’s Dragoons move down the road
With the victory and now a safe flank on our right
Richard and Smiffy move their
infantry forward, it was an agreement with Surjit
the now lone infantry player as
Dave had to leave early, to have a full scale
advance with the infantry, mainly
because they hadn’t had much of a game……….but
BadBoy Surjit didn’t do
as he agreed, this caused no end of problems!!!
Prince Rupert of the Rhine, with his dog, Boy.
The Prince of Wales’ Horse charged the rear of Sir John
Meldrum’s Horse, there could
be only 1 winner!!!!! The Royalist’s are victorious and also capture
the enemy leader
Richard gives fire as the Parliamentarian forces advance.
Fran and Lee’s Horse all meet, its bad news for the
Royalists, Lee not only loses
both melees but also his leader. Fran’s gloat was
quite evil!
Fran trying to look serious??
The Earl of Essex
Fran dis-mounts his Dragoons and hops over the hedge to
try and cause a little mischief.
With the flank is secure, I had to think what to do with my Horse?
Sir Charles Gerard's Foot advancing down the hill.
Will the infantry meet??
Its nearing the end of the game, but I’ve now got myself
into a great position to charge next turn.
Now its Lee’s turn to have a little luck, he see’s off
all the enemy Horse!!
and captures Fran’s leader as well.
And there the game ends, as you've no doubt already read
on Lee and Fran’s blogs, the
game was a dead heat on points, it could have so easily gone
either way. But if we’d played
on for just one more turn, I've no doubt the
victory would have been ours.
Well I would, wouldn't I??
