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Deployment: The Army of Northern Virginia faces disaster. It has been caught out with its Division's scattered across Maryland, and now faces the far larger union army with its back to the Potomac. Fortunately reinforcements are on the way and the union commander seems determined to squander his decisive advantage by sending in his forces piecemeal. In this northern part of the battlefield 'stonewall' Jackson's wing of confederates face a union Corp under 'fightin' Joe Hooker. To win the union must capture the 'Dunker' church near the southern edge of the board by the end of turn 12, signifying that they have successfully turned the rebel flank. For this scenario we are using simplified orders of battle, with Hooker as the sole union Corp commander on the field. We have also standardised brigade sizes at 8 stands to aid speed of play. Both sides have reinforcements with variable arrival times. The union have two starting Division's; Doubleday on the ...

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 ha...