At Last...A Game...

With the last two attempts to get together for a game foiled by local COVID lockdowns, today we managed to get together for a game. 

The setting is in Spain in 1837 with the Isabellino forces taking on the Carlists.

The setting was that four battalions of French Foreign Legion and five of the British Legion, supported by cavalry and artillery were bottled up in a village with a river to their back over which the bridge had been destroyed. Three brigades of Carlist infantry and two cavalry brigades were closing in, but help, in the form of three brigades of Isabellino troops were on their way.  Those Isabellino reinforcements could arrive on the table in either the eastern or western ends of the table on turn two, at the discretion of the individual brigadiers. The map (north up) of the initial deployment with the reinforcement areas marked  in orange, is below.

The Anglo-French force deployed first, then the Carlists.

The Anglo-French deployment 

A brigade of Carlist cavalry deployed to the west

The other brigade deployed to the east

Of the Isabellino reinforcements two brigades chose to come in on the western edge while the third brigade came  in on the east.

Above and below the Carlists reacted to the eastern arrival of the Isabellinos

Meanwhile the Carlist in the north and west of the town pushed forward against the town to try to take it before  the reinforcements could intervene.

The Isabellino reinforcements on the west advanced slowly while the Carlist in the distance pressed their  attack on the town

To the east a sharp engagement developed . Three Carlist battalions  managed to crowd in on a single Isabellino battalion and opened fire. When they fired they scored nine hits...

 And the Isabellino battalion rolled nine saves!

Finally Isabellinos from the west closed in and put pressure on the Carlist troops attacking the village, forcing them to divert troops.

Then with alarming speed things began to fall apart all over the table. First a brigade of Carlist cavalry decided it had had enough and quit the field. Then the Eastern Isabellino brigade decided enough was enough and it went too. 

Before too long the Isabellino line cavalry got itself into a sound position and swooped down on the now shaky Carlists, sweeping all before them.

With that most of the Carlists were put to flight and the game came to an end, with the Isabellino forces still holding the village.

And finally a couple of random shots

The French Foreign Legion cavalry about to be destroyed 

A Carlist mountain gun crew sight their piece.