This time a straight across the table fight featuring 6 Jacobite clan unit's and a small unit of Royal Ecossais against 3 Hanoverian line and two grenadier units.
A scrappy engagement with lots of fluffed initiative rolls and swapping back and forth between the two sides without either side getting a change to get the upper hand. It did however stop the jacobites for getting a couple of telling charges in and caused them to take some more losses. But they rallied and drove the redcoats back to the table edge, despite them getting reinforcements in the shape of a fresh unit. In the end though weight of numbers began to tell and the remaining redcoats sued for peace after suffering the loss of a further unit.
The Jacobites didn't get their own way tonight and a few times were kept off by the shooting and bayonet drill of the government troops. But they in turn couldn't quite fend off all the clan units and their perimeter shrunk and shrunk until they had nowhere left to go.
This was the second of our club Jacobite battles. We plan a third next week. Stay tuned!
1 comment:
A scrappy game or not...
A game is a game π
All the best. Aly
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