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Tango01 | 15 May 2015 1:02 p.m. PST |
"Robbie was up this week for a rematch. I made a few changes to the terrain and a couple of amendments to the armies, but not much. The Catholic League/Imperial forces were given a redoubt within which to place some of their guns and one of their cavalry commanders was 'promoted' to Pappenheim, giving his brigade of horse some rather nasty advantages, i.e. one unit of cuirassiers was given the 'terrifying charge' rule and all other units were given 'ferocious charge'. The Swedes were unchanged from the last game. I played the Swedes again. Robbie deployed in a traditional way with cavalry on both wings with a strong centre of infantry. He placed his redoubt on the right flank. I deployed all my mounted troops on the right flank, the Yellow brigade on the left, and the Blue and Green in the centre. The Catholic League went first but in miserable set of command rolls pretty much remained where they were. My right wing horse also failed to advance very far if t all. In the centre the Blue brigade failed its command roll; in fact they only passed ONE in the entire game! The Yellow brigade moved to the bridge and river to secure my left flank and the Green brigade advanced albeit slowly, towards the enemy…"
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