FoGR TYW Later German Imperialist v TYW Later German Protestant

The 28mm ECW/TYW army continued their run of games with an outing against Tim's army. We both went for Later TYW Germans, my version was more quantity over quality while Tim had invested in some superior infantry and attached battalion guns.

My Catholics attacked and the table ended up being fairly open. Both armies deployed in a similar way:

On the right cavalry are massed for action, the Catholics having support from some Dragoons and two infantry units while the Protestants only have a single superior infantry unit

The Catholics advance in depth:

On the left two lines of infantry face each other:

Will numbers or quality triumph? 

Both sides mounted eye each other warily:

On the left the Catholic infantry advance hoping to move their reserve infantry unit into a gap developing in the Protestant centre:

Shooting removes bases from both sides:

Close combat! The Protestant line charges:

On the right the fighting continues with the quality of the Protestant foot overcoming the numbers of the Catholics but not breaking them:

Finally the rather hesitant cavalry engage:

The result is inconclusive though:

On the left the Catholic infantry begin to break their Protestant equivalents:

The infantry fight on the right is finally ended when the reserve Catholic infantry charge the Protestants in the flank breaking them:

On the left despite being reduced to 50% strength and fragmented the Catholic infantry finish off their Protestant opponents:

Meanwhile a large cavalry melee has been fought out on the right with little result until one Protestant cavalry unit breaks finishing off the Protestant army:

Even at 650 points on a 6x4 table the units easily covered the table which is a bit of an issue. We also used the last lot of amendments to the rules making average units much tougher (they don't break on base losses so easily) which certainly affected the outcome as I had three infantry units which would have broken due to base losses but fought on successfully steadfastly refusing to rout or lose the last base!