ADLG-R - Game Report 2

Early 30YW Swedish (23) vs Later Imperialists (28)

For our second foray into ADLG-R we again used my troops, but this time I decided to use the Early Swedes. The Imperialists went for a heavy left flank of cavalry, rather outnumbering the Swedes.

Consequently, the Swedish left wing commander moved them right. Whether this was a good idea with the number of Pike and Shot battle units approaching the Swedish left flank was a very serious question.

The Imperialist light infantry stormed the Swedish camp and then moved forward top threaten the rear of the Swedish later tercio battle units. On the right the cavalry combat is currently going the way of the Imperialists.

However, the Swedish cavalry eventually overcame the Imperialists and started to move around the flank., on the left flank the Swedish artillery battery was overran, and the pike and shot battle unit made contact next with a later tercio.

With the Swedish cavalry now breaking through only time would tell how long the rest of the Imperialists would last. The Imperialists light cavalry managed to prevent the Swedes taking the camp and at that point the numbers said that it was a mutual destruction.

Outcome

Our initial assessment of the losses gave us a mutual destruction result, but the canny of you will notice that the later tercio on my right flank has suffered 7 cohesion hits. At the time I was wondering why there wasn’t a 7 chit in my box. It was only when I thought about it later that I realised that it should have been destroyed on 7 losses.

Hence the correct outcome would have been a close fought win for the Imperialists.