ECW - The Great Rebellion in Oxford 2016
Scots Covenanters vs Later Royalist
Game 1 Scots Covenanters vs Later Royalist
Game 2 Scots Covenanters vs Later Royalist
Game 3 Scots Covenanters vs Later Royalist
Game 3, off the back of a narrow defeat, and still the Covenanters were unbroken. Next up, more Royalists
The lists for the Scots Covenanters and Later Royalist from this game, as well as all the other lists from the games at Oxford can be seen here in the FoG:R Wiki.
The final game was also inflicted with lopsided terrain, and with the commitment to flank marching I elected to be on the open side hoping to catch the enemy still pinned into the terrain and force at least some of their Horse out onto the left flank.
This at least meant that my checkerboard deplyment with supporting frame gunnes could actually get a real go at working on a nice clear open space in the middle of the table though
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The Royalists were largely unencumbered by the terrain, with lots of Medium Foot shotte-only units who advanced gamely forwards too so soon both sides were in hand to hand combat!
The Superior Irish Wild Geese unit made up of Minifigs shotte and Donnington Pikemen was in the middle of my line - but not for long as it was battered by musketry and defeated in short order by an Average unit of Royalist foote!
Things were far more cagey on the right, where two units faced off against each other, neither keen to go in first
The Royalists certainly had had their weetabix for lunch, and were managing to stand succesfully against overlapping (++) Highlanders without even losing bases !
For the third time in a row the flank march actually arrived, and spotted that the Royalists had a formation facing against them that was more than capable of holding the crappy Scots horse at bay. Not a great place to be
Having crushed the Wilde Geese the Royalist's vanilla infantry stormed forwards, highlighting the tactical folly of having light guns so close to the front line..
With time running out the Covenanters considered a wild and unlikely to be succesful charge against the Royalist horse on the flank, but nothing came of it...
The Result is another defeat, but not an army break, for the Covenanters
Read on for the post match summaries from the Generals involved, as well as another episode of legendary expert analysis from Renaissance Hannibal
Post Match Summary from the Scots Covenanters Commander
Well, this has been a good outing for some brave boys who have made it onto the table, some of them having only been purchased and recruited at Salute last weekend. Given that the rest of the army has sat languising in a drawer for almost 2 years now half-painted, getting these brave Christian men onto the table surely counts as a great success at this late stage in their careers.
Emerging from the stygian darkness of the Highlanders pre-dawn ablutions, the failure of the best unit in the whole army to put up any sort of fight was something of a large disappointment, but at least it meant that the massive heeds of the Donnington pikemen got to be seen in their full moon-like glory.
Whether this army will come out again is probably down to whether the rest of the Highalnder warriors get to the top of the painting queue above all of the other random crud that is infesting the recruiting table e'en as we speak.
One might hope that good honest anti-papist soldiery would take preference over tiny robot aeroplanes and ridiculously large 28mm longbowmen, but in this day and age one can never be sure.
Hannibal's Post Match Analysis
Sire this was a farce and a farrago - so little preparation is unforgivable when you have designed the army on paper and painted the troops to fill it out. These poor men, quite literally in many cases, had little chance under your haphazard leadership to achieve naught other than crushing defeat
The only thing you did well here was to hire too many soldiers to be beaten in the short time available to you in each of these games. The quality of quantity was however usually defeated by the quality of, erm, quality which on a narrow frontage with little time to exploit the flanks was not surprising at all.
Quite what opponents those lancers were hoping to find is also beyond me - they would struggle to capture the baggage, let alone roll over even the most surprised enemy horse they might encounter.
At least they looked nice - while they lasted. But that was not for long, and I am sure you are not long for military service now either - be gone you foul toad spawned wretch!
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Game 1 Scots Covenanters vs Later Royalist
Game 2 Scots Covenanters vs Later Royalist
Game 3 Scots Covenanters vs Later Royalist
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