FK&P AAR: Muscovites vs Transylvanians
/With my Transylvanians having lost the first game by only one Victory Medal, it was time to swap sides for a re-match: this time I would take the Muscovites, with Bevan playing the Transylvanians.
As you can see in the picture, above, both sides have deployed very traditionally: infantry in the centre, cavalry on each wing. You’ll also see that my horse on my left flank considerably outnumber their mounted opponents, so my plan was very much to punch through there and then roll the Transylvanian line up.
With that in mind, I opened the game by advancing forward on the left as hard and fast as I could.
As you can see in the bottom two pictures above, on the far left, left of the woods, I didn’t manage to punch through the enemy lights quite how I had hoped, but did manage to open up a bit of space just to the right of the woods. The question now became whether I could exploit this advantage!
Meanwhile, elsewhere on the field, the two battle lines had generally come together, with a series of fierce melees taking place:
Now was the time for my troops on the left to curl inwards and roll up the Transylvanian line: something I really needed them to do as they represented a good proportion of my fighting strength, and my lesser-quality centre wouldn’t hold for ever!
Above you can see a couple of pictures showing how I was trying to get my horse back into the action: but they do seem to have an awful lot of ground to cover!
And all that ground proved my downfall, with my centre and right flank giving way before I could get the cavalry back into the game.
Regular readers will know that I lost the first game in this two-battle series by one Victory Medal…and so it was again in this game! If I had survived one more turn in the centre/on the right then my cavalry would have made it back into the action in time to win the game for me, but victory evaded me by the smallest of margins as one unit too many fled the field.
So that was four games with Bevan in two days…and four defeats. Ouch! But, as Michael Jordan once said:
“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”
Good to know that I’m secretly a success at this wargaming thing!
Very secretly!
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