ADLG-R Swiss v French Italian Wars

With another ADLG-R competition coming up at the club soon I gave Swiss a try-out against Mike's French Italian Wars army. I thought I'd try Swiss as they are rather one-dimensional which perhaps suits my level of ADLG-R experience! The army consisted of elite Pikemen, more elite Pikemen and some elite Pikemen to make up the numbers with a few skirmishers and a couple of allied Gendarmes.

The Swiss attacked in the woods, as usual the table ended up fairly open with a few hills and woods on the flanks:

Simple army, simple plan. Everyone advances with the Gendarmes in reserve:

Swiss skirmishing crossbowmen lose out to Stradiots on the left:

Mike's army consisted of Gendarmes, Landschneckts and (even more) Swiss Pikemen all of whom awaited the Swiss avalanche:

There are three individual battles really, Swiss Pike v Gendarmes on the left, Swiss v Swiss in the centre and Swiss v Landschnects on the right:

French artillery fire is having an effect on the Swiss:

The Gendarmes await the Swiss attack:

Troops close up in the centre and on the right:

Being 'Headstrong' the Swiss are forced to charge into the Gendarmes. This seems like a bad idea:

It turns out to be a very bad idea as one Kiel is obliterated and the other takes numerous hits. I seem to remember all four threw 1's in combat to Mikes Gendarmes 5's or 6's:

In the centre Swiss clash with Swiss, again going badly for the erm Swiss:

On the right Swiss and Landschneckts battle it out:

On the left the Swiss recover a little and dispose of a French Gendarme:

No result as yet in this combat:

Or this one:

A Landschneckt Kiel breaks:

Unfortunately so does the Swiss one in the centre breaking the Swiss army:

The Swiss were indeed rather one dimensional but were still fun to play with, having to charge the Gendarmes was unfortunate but with better luck might not have been so disastrous! One other thing I didn't pick was the 'swordsmen' option for the Kiel's which allows them to win ties in melee against other pike or spear armed troops, I didn't think it was worth the cost but Mike had paid for it for his Kiel's and I think it made a fair bit of difference.

Still contemplating what to use in the competition, the lists are all quite similar with no 'unusual' choices like the Chinese army I used last time!