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Stones River: Afternoon of 31st December 1862

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 Deployment: In this battle we are jumping into the action at 12:30 in the afternoon. The Confederates have swept one union Corp from the field and folded back their line. As the exhausted rebel's prepare one last assault, the union commander Rosecrans must try and rally together his shattered units and make a stand to save the army of the Cumberland from complete destruction.  Confederate Turn 1: Hardee's men come screaming out of the treeline on the left flank, but the outflanked and badly outnumbered Yankee's fall back yard but yard with excellent discipline to blunt the attack. Union Turn 1: Rosecrans dashes up the the spent and reforming regiments behind the railway track and shoves them into the line to support Scribner's brigade. As they approach they hear an almighty fusillade as Scribner's men with two battery's attached scythe down the isolated rebels to their front, using up the last of their ammunition. On the right the two brigades retire together i
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The Wars of Religion - Fields of Glory

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Deployment: In this battle both sides are simply seeking to destroy the opposing army whilst preserving as much of their own force as possible. The Spanish/ Catholics have opted to put their cavalry and artillery in the centre between the swamp and the forest, whilst their infantry anchor both flanks. The French Huguenots have cavalry forming a front rank all along the line, but have weighted most of their infantry towards their left. Turn 1: The Spanish mounted arquebusiers begin some indecisive skirmishing in the centre. Their musketeers push through the forest, whilst the rest of the infantry slowly swing around the terrain and close in from the flanks. The French march their infantry past the cornfields to their left, leaving their cavalry to screen the centre.  Turn 2: Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex leads a body of French cuirassiers in a daring charge to smash the papist mounted arquebusiers. Just as quickly he gallops to the rear when the Spanish reiters counter attack. The rema
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East Ukraine - August 1943

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Turn 1: The post- Kursk soviet counteroffensive rolls on. In this engagement we have elements of a motorised division making a hasty attack against an understrength German grenadier regiment. The battle opens with the advance of two infantry battalions with attached SU-76 and SU-85 assault guns. The 1st battalion heads straight up the road, whilst the 2nd captures the village and then moves along the railway line in a wide flanking arc.   Turn 2: The SU-85's charge ahead, straight into a German ambush! Two Pak40 battery's and a panther platoon bark out from the wheatfield, instantly destroying the soviet assault guns.  Turn 3: Scouts attached to the soviet 2nd battalion uncover a German force guarding the cross roads. They are powerless to stop the grenadiers from combining their firepower with the heavy machineguns in the field as they scythe through the exposed Soviet battalion on the road. Meanwhile the Pak 40's switch targets and quickly eliminate the SU-76's.  Turn
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