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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...

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 ...