Finally, at last, heretics! After the recent victory and the sighting of enemy heretic troops nearby, the army´s morale was at its highest.
The battlefield was quite similar to the last one (same table), with an added hill on the English side and without the wall. The English army deployed its infantry in the middle and most of their mounted on my right, where I had refused battle backed by a plantation. I detached a group of muskets to occupy a closed field on my left flank and deployed mi cuirassiers among the battleline. My Tercios Viejos were assigned to take the hill from the enemy.
The English had three sup cavaliers (on my right) and one ave (on my left), two dragoons, one artillery, three commanded shot, one sup muskets and four ave pike and shot groups.
Spanish on the forefront.
English cavalry in all its royal splendour.
Battle starts with my right flank dragoons getting out of the plantation to delay the enemy advance. On the center and left, general advance.
Dragoons enter into personal combat, both sides taking casualties.
On my right my troops take position to withstand the English mounted assault.
The Tercios Viejos approach the hill, meanwhile at their left both armies keep advancing.
After an uncertain combat, the dragoon fight favors me, but just barely! Fragmented after a hard fight, my dragoons take cover in the plantation. Two cavalier groups decide not to press the right flank and head for the center of the battlefield, where my compound tercio is suffering heavy casualties from enemy fire.
The fight for the hill has begun! Casualties pile on both sides. On the left, my cuirassiers head for the lone cavalier group.
The fire fight is against me. The heretics shoot with devilish aim! One of the Tercios Viejos is about to break from casualties. That can´t be accepted and the order is given to charge uphill. Drums roar fiercely and flags are hold even higher. The Cardenal Infante takes himself to the front lines of the tercio and leads the troops that, in silence, advance uphill ignoring enemy fire, only breaking the silence to shout “Santiago! España!” just before charging. And they are up to their soldados viejos reputation! The enemy regiment takes more casualties that it cand stand and flees. The hill is ours!
Rolling like that you can charge everything.
At the same time my cuirassiers charge and the compound tercio charges too, depleted from enemy fire.
The victorious Tercio Viejo pursues and finds another enemy infantry regiment. Their cavaliers get disrupted and suffer one casualty, and their sup cavaliers charge a tercio. Melee combat is everywhere!
Another group of cavaliers points to the flank of the compound tercio, which remains steady even after losing combat after combat. It seems doomed.
The Tercio Viejo charges its new enemy with overwhelming fury and sweeps it on the spot! No one can stop them.
The cavaliers flank charge wasn´t needed as the compound tercio finally takes more casualties that it cand stand and breaks. My artillery is defenseless against the victorious enemy.
The cavaliers that pressed on the right flank finally get to charge, but no effect is produced.
Finally, after the ave cavaliers are broken, the commanded shot on the hill is surrounded and destroyed, as are the enemy dragoons on the far left. That is too much for the English army, which flees the battlefield. God has punished heresy! Another victory for the Army of Flanders! With gratitude, Mass is celebrated on the top of the hill.
And that was the end of the campaign. The two victories raised me to third position out of twelve, a great achivemente for me! I had a great time and my fellow gamers were all gentleman. What else could I ask for?
