. The only thing we have to consider is that our troops are demoralized, I believe this means that it is easier for them to become disrupted, fragmented and ultimately rout so we do have to be aware of that. Foreshadowing is a technique that...
Once we load in, it is obvious why the Danish are the historical losers. The river would have been a great place to defend from but the cream-of-the-crop of the Catholic army has already crossed the river over by the left flank. And there is also a cavalry flanking maneuver happening on the right flank... we are being surrounded and our position is not the best. I would like to advance the center of our line to the river to block the rest of the Catholic army from an easy crossing and then set up a defensive line with most of our infantry on the left side. I will send two/three infantry units to the right to help with shooting and protecting flanks/rears as I want to try to go on the offensive with my cavalry stacks. We have more cavalry units, but our units are smaller and thus will do worse in protracted close combat engagements. We need to try and rout them as quickly as possible so we dont rout ourselves and to help focus on the veteran early tercios.
As I move units around to create this makeshift line, not everything is as it seems as Catholic muskets are hiding in the forests by the left! This means that any attack on the left side now has to consider this and puts my whole cavalry attack operation under question. But for this try it is a little too late to recall my units. I am also in the process of securing the river where they have their medium guns and doing some successful attacks on the right.
At turn 5 I have created my infantry line that almost connects the two ends of the map. It seems that the center Catholic forces don't imminently move in and stay back for a few turns until they eventually engage us on the right flank. Allowing us to shoot at that one veteran tercio they have in the center with our artillery. However, we have started taking some losses but its mostly cavalry from the left side which I expected after the muskets unveiled themselves.
All hope is lost after 3 more turns though. Our line on the left is falling apart and causing chain routing due to our demoralization. Since we dont have reserve units this means that the Catholic tercios that manage to get through have free-reign across our backlines. Hopefully I do not have to explain why that is bad. The right flank is also being pushed by the Catholic cavalry reinforcements that start in the center. Hmmmmm... not a good place to be. I play out for a few more turns but its obvious which way the wind is blowing. So back to the drawing board again and think about what I should change.
So I decided that my infantry line the left side should be further back, giving us more time to set up and hopefully shoot at the enemy. Sadly this line crosses where our artillery, it will have to be a noble sacrifice. All of our pike and shot units will be sent to the center instead of spread out as we need the melee prowess against those veteran ealry tercios (since later tercios have a bigger percentage of pikes they will perform better) and the river will help protect them if they get into close combat. I will also call for a full retreat of the cavalry on the left flank, as they are unlikely to win from muskets taking popshots to the fact that early tercios being able to charge cavalry. I will try to put them behind my lines and use them for removing any muskets that get too close and some limited cavalry on cavalry action.
By turn 4 I have mostly completed the line I wish to make, we are mostly locked into close combats on the right side so I begin shifting an infantry unit to the left side as they will most likely need it. Otherwise no other upstarts really, except for the top right hand side. It is difficult to record they will begin charging in cycles across the river. One charges, backs off and then the next one charges in. Its quite annoying even if it doesnt amount to anything
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2 turns later and the left front is completely active in either shooting or melee. I will try to focus on routing the early and later tercio's that I can easily attack to start a general push. However, I fear that some of my units in the center of this line will not last long enough for me to relief them. Especially with an enemy arkebussier roaming around freely in our back lines. Otherwise our right flank is doing quite well as can be seen by their central units being disrupted or have taken heavy casualties. As indicated by the flag being more disorganized.
3 grueling turns later and while the center of the line did indeed not hold, some cavalry managed to make it behind the Catholics forces and is distracting two of the veterans for us to hopefully finish up the one tercio by the river and then focus on the other two that are already engaged with other elements of our infantry. In general by turn 9 we can see that we are somehow still ahead of the total routs we have just 18% whereas the Catholics are on 21% with some units very close to breaking (such as the fragmented tercio shown in the screenshot). While our victories come from the right flank which we are in the process of winning on this left flank it is on a knifes edge for both of the armies. Generally the outcome of the battle I would say hinges on who wins on the left side.
On turn 10 I would say that we have secured the advantage, the right side is almost secured for us and routing two of the veteran early tercios within one turn helps us greatly. Alongside that fact the Catholics finally decide to push with the remainder of their forces in the middle but they don't try to cross the river so we are just exchanging fire with one another which works in my favor due to the fact that I have my pike and shot units there alongside a flanking maneuver already in motion to take out the fragmented later tercio and hopefully cause a wave of disruptions.
And now we started to snowball. We jumped from a 12% difference in routs to a 21% difference. While sadly not quite enough for a victory right now, I believe we will easily win the race to 60% at least. We do have some units that are close to breaking in the middle, our left is looking really strong now to take on the last three tercios the enemies have left on this side of the river. After a few more turns where it does get a bit closer at one point (15% difference) it quickly jumps back up to 20% difference and we manage to squeak out a win
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Since we had both lost quite a bit of our infantry there was no real front to speak off it was just pure chaotic fighting for survival, as can be seen here across the two fronts just before the win:
A fight to close this pocket.
Racing to finish off the early tercio before it could rally again.
I would say the main lesson I learnt was how to flank correctly and realizing when to push for an advantage and when to pull back. But this was a pretty fun battle all things considered, I mean the others were also fun but this was fun for the simplicity it brought. The enemies have a huge force advancing upon you so you must muster a large enough defense and try to win
. See you next time where we will have to be the swedes... ew 
. Although the next one may not come out in as short a time as these others ones I have made. Hopefully the wait is okay!