By turn 5 my infantry is clumped in the gap and the enemy musketeers that were hidden in the woods are on the run. Sustainable losses for now; more Musketeers in the small town on the road. In Turn 7 I'm trying to move my guns on the small hill that dominates the battlefield while still trying to chase around the fleeing musketeers for some speed boost. Their path is unpredictable so it's not working flawlessly, but I am still able to engage the two Tercios blocking the road. The Catholic forces are moving forward now.
Turn 8: new plan. Seeing the Imperial forces converging toward me, I intend on forming a strong defensive line in the gap between the two small lakes and lead them in the killzone. My cavalry will be redirected on the flanks to counter any flanking move by the Hussars, and to flank the enemy themselves. It was a neat idea, but the Imperial cavalry found a gap in the lines and apparently can charge effortlessly through a stream, so they got a flank attack on a unit of Arkebusiers, that fled, and then they flank-charged another Arkebusier unit, fragmenting it. My left flank is now destroyed. Good.
Turn 13: am I now in a good position? The entire right flank's cavalry of the Imperial forces has chased my fleeing Arkebusiers off map, and on the right flank I'm doing pretty well. In the center, Arkebusiers and cannon fire has routed two enemy cavalries, and my Tercio line is still unbothered.
And then it all fucks off at the same time: the Imperial Kuirassiers break the Arkebusiers in front of them, and this causes a chain reaction that makes all my right flank to flee. I'll have to redirect two Tercios on the right flank to avoid an encirclement, and the Imperial cavalry on my left flank will come back sooner or later. I might just have lost the battle. Oh well, at least I got their guns with my Arkebusiers and broken the first Imperial Tercio that approached my killzone.
In TUrn 18 my awesome Arkebusiers in the center finally rout their counterparts, and while chasing them they find the Tercio I broke earlier had regrouped. Being the badasses they are, they promptly charged the Tercio and routed it again! The Imperial Hussar chase down an Arkebusier unit right through the lines of my Tercios, almost reaching my artillery. Fuck this. At least I got my right flank properly covered now that my Later Tercio and a regular one have pointed their muskets at the stream crossing. The battle goes on, more cavalry gets routed here and there, and then nightfall comes and I lose the battle.
Meh.
