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Deployment: In this scenario the Spanish/ catholic forces are exhausted after a long campaign and have been surprised by the French Huguenots sudden attack.  Turn 1: The French very cautiously push forwards. The Spanish infantry hastily march to shore up their line, but the cavalry on the right are disordered and delayed.  Turn 2: In the cornfield both sides mercenary reiters clash, exhausting one another in a brutal melee. The French however are able to send in their argoulets to finish the job, and the first catholic unit is destroyed.  Meanwhile the Huguenot shot skirmish with the detached manga's in the forest, allowing the French cuirassiers to ride straight past them on the road.  Turn 3: The elite Spanish tercio go straight for the indomitable Swiss. A slaughter ensues as neither side is willing to give ground and they fight three bloody rounds of 'bad war', pike going against pike in a horrific meat grinder until at last the Spanish are forced to yield and halt thei

Deployment: The defending parthian's deploy a command containing cataphracts, horse archers and javelinmen between the marsh and the gully on the right. In the broad open space to the left of the marsh they have another command of medium and light horse archers. The romans have a small command of auxiliary italian allies on the right, sheltered behind the gully. Their strategist holds the centre with a mixed command of one full legion, an elephant with escorting theurophoroi, and a weak cavalry detachment. On the left the remaining legion is in march column, angled towards the centre of the battlefield.  Roman Turn 1: The romans begin a general advance. The strategist splits up his forces, pushing ahead with the elephants whilst detaching his cavalry to screen the march column from the horde of horse archers on the left. On the right the italian auxilaries move up towards the safety of the gully.   Parthian Turn 1: The italians freeze at the sound of hooves and clanking armour, an