The last game of 22 saw my first FoGR game for a considerable period with the under-used pike and shot army playing as Later TYW Imperialists against Bill's ECW Royalists. Not having played 28mm before we went for 650 points on an 8x4 table to give a bit more space.
Both sides deployed with the traditional infantry centre and mounted wings:
Initial manoeuvres with both sides closing:
The left flank with the Imperialist artillery firing ineffectively!
On the right the Imperialist mounted await the advancing Cavaliers:
As the Cavaliers seem unwilling to advance further the Kurassiers turn to support their infantry. In the distance Dragoons battle it out in the field:
The Imperialist artillery finally manages to hit some Cavaliers:
As the infantry lines close an opportunity arrives for Imperialist horse to attack Royalist musket only armed men in the open:
The Dragoons hold on in the field while the infantry lines begin to exchange fire:
Mounted clash on the left! The Imperialists get the worst of it and lose a base:
Imperialist horse charge into the exposed musketeers:
The infantry fight intensifies:
Units charge home!
The battle rages on with neither side giving an inch:
The Royalist musketeers break and some of their infantry are fragmented:
The Dragoons have routed and the Imperialist right flank is wobbling:
At this point we called the game as it was getting late, the Imperialists probably had a slight advantage but the Royalists could easily have come back into it.
Great fun playing FoGR again, they are still one of my favourite sets of rules and I'm sure we would have got a result if we had not been so rusty and had to look a lot of stuff up which we had forgotten or were unsure about.
It was also a great looking game, increasingly I'm going back to preferring 25/28mm games and, with most of the army being plastic, they were not that heavy to carry! It has also inspired me to continue with the Swedish painting project as well.....
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