Chris and Jon advance boldly across the table. Jon’s artillery scores a hit on the French in the village.

Chris charges up hill to engage Tim’s cavalry. They counter charge, then it all goes a bit soggy for him. He loses a pretty much even dice roll off (his terrain advantage offset by his horses all being ill) and to cap it off, his brigadier is killed out right.

Chris‘ Dutch infantry open fire. He has three dice per unit with a +1 net modifier, looking for 6+ to hit. He rolls 4,5,6 in each round of firing, inflicting two hits on each French unit.

An intense firefight breaks out around the village. Jon’s cunning plan enabled him to get two rounds of firing at the left hand French unit, as units move and fire sequentially. Neat, but I’m not sure if that’s what I meant or intend.

Tim tries to launch a succession of charges with his infantry in the centre, but mostly fails, and a fire fight breaks out. Except on the right, where the attack goes in.

Chris‘ reserve line of cavalry is halted by close range cannon fire.

Tim’s other cavalry are doing better, and are driving their opponents back pell-mell. This is preventing the second line supporting them effectively.

Quick overview photo of the action. The infantry appear to have stalled, and the French need a big win before the Dutch cavalry rally and return from pursuit.

Despite his men having slightly dodgy morale, the right hand French infantry break their Dutch opponents with a bayonet charge.

Up at the village sustained and deadly musketry enable the British foot to force their way in. Ian has pulled his reserves up to try and flank the attacking units, but this may be too late.

The game reaches its climax. The troops driven from the village, together with the troops on their right, counter attack, but this results in one of the attacking units breaking, and the other being stalled. Up the top, there’s loads of firing going on, and a desperate charge out of the village, but the British are not to be driven off.

Tim has broken the left hand end of the Dutch line, but elsewhere his line is crumbling. A hard won victory for the Anglo Dutch.

This game had some command figures who were better than others, so could use more than one command action a turn. This proved to be helpful to the Anglo-Dutch. The French, notably Tim, had a dreadful run of luck, and should have done better with their cavalry. The village fight was messy. I’m not sure that Ian knew what he wanted to do, and his last ditch charge out of the defences didn’t really work for him. To be fair, it was the last turn, and he was looking for an end of game spectacular.

I need to think further on how to make the village fight work, and there were some other useful comments and discussion about various aspects of the rule system. Since I confidently stated that „This. Will. Happen.“ seven weeks ago, writing up the rules and figuring out the fine detail has not gone as quickly as expected. Several other things have emerged as a thief of time, but with those mostly out of the way, I’ll hopefully get back to them shortly.