Battle of Liklok hill 1644

Last night the "fab four" had this tremendous ECW game..........................

Top photo is scenario,bottom is the table before any movement-Dave was away in Manchester,so Paul and Graham were the Royalists,whilst Brian and I were the Parliamentarians.

Move number two,and true to form,Graham has launched his cavalry forward-I have moved my cavalry to try and catch him in the flank-his cavalry are too close to each other!

The infantry in the centre are being very cautious,and not moving too close to the opposition,letting the artillery do as much damage as possible before getting involved in a fire-fight.

Brian's Ironsides cavalry advance,with enough spacing not to get disordered in case of a push back in melee.
Both sides had reinforcements coming onto the table,at the throw of a dice,they could place them anywhere,but neither Paul or Brian used the far terrain ie the river and Liklok Hill!

By move number 7 all hell was let loose!! Graham was knocking my officers over like nine-pins,and I needed a cavalry win to try and out-flank him-terrific stuff,but what of Brian??

Well,if the truth were told,he wasn't doing very well!!In the background you can see Paul has moved a cavalry regiment forward to try and destroy Brian's artillery battery-surely a whiff of grape shot will stop them in their tracks(???)

Just look at the table!!-Brian has failed to stop Paul's cavalry from destroying his battery,and all of his cavalry are being slaughtered,his reinforcements have failed to make any impact,so,as usual, it's up to me to save the army!!!!

My idea of saving the army ended when most of my infantry decided to retire(it's good being retired!)-and Paul's reinforcements started to make their presence felt-it was now up to my cavalry-could they save the day and get us a draw??

Yeah!! with Graham's troops having fought themselves to a stand still my cavalry were able to ride rampant over the flank,so a draw was decided,and very fair too.
This was tremendously good game,and never one-sided-great stuff.
Roll on next Sunday,we will be running through our Rorke's Drift game for Falkirk.
As an historical note,the rhyme of Liklok Hill was written in the 17th century by a lady called Betty Swollocks(aka Mary Hinge).