Slitherine

The Franco-Spanish partition of Naples in 1501 only exacerbated the growing rivalry between the two rising kingdoms, and soon hostilities resumed. Gonzalo de Cordoba, having learned a bitter lesson in Swiss pikes and French gendarmes shock tactics at Seminara, proceeded to avoid challenging the French in the open, even after receiving landsknechte from Germany and organizing his own pikemen. The Spaniards were to rely instead on an exponential increase in firearms protected by field fortifications to blunt enemy assault. So it was on 29 April 1503 when the impetuously-led French army under the duke of Nemours hurled itself against Cordoba's potent defensive position in front of Cerignola.

designer's notes:
this is the sequel to seminara.

assaults on defensive positions are difficult to model with realistic outcomes but not impossible with the proper technique and timing. there are plenty to write about here but you'll have to discover those techniques on your own, lest someone accuse me of 'chest pounding' lol.

66 mobile BGs, 18 turns.

Thanks for the very interesting battle.