Roll Call Sharp Practice Game 3 French v Spanish

Game 3 was against Jez's Spanish. Jez played at the Redcar and Middlesbrough clubs where I played in my much younger days and we figured it must be 30 years or so since we last played a game!

The mission in this game was to cross a wide river which had two fords and get as many men as possible across.

The Spanish can have a moveable deployment point (no one else can) which Jez used to good account to get three units of skirmishers deployed across the river before the French had even got started:

The other big problem for the French was the Spanish 40 strong Militia unit which created a wall of fire that would flatten anything that got in the way:

There was little hope of the French successfully advancing anywhere and the chances of getting across the river seemed remote:

The French tried advancing on the right but didn't get very far:

The Spanish Militia start to cross the river and the French retire from the field:

Again this game was largely decided before it started, Jez's army composition was very good, the moveable deployment point and a scout allowed him to deploy so far forward that the French were pinned before they got going at all. The ridiculously cheap Spanish Militia also allowed him to cut off a vast swath of the table where if the French advance into range they will have 40 odd dice firing at them admittedly only hitting on 6's but still devastating.