ADLG-R AAR Early 30 Years War Swedes vs New Model English

Have been busy over the last few months with ADLG comps, going to the Worlds in Rome and then up to Britcon in Manchester.

Things have calmed down a bit and now finally got some -R back to the table.

Also got to give my new cloth from Wargamers Whims a run. 

Martin brought his New Model English and I brought in the Early 30 Years War Swedes

I went for an agressive army with Gustavus as the Strategist, so, had an initiative of +3.

The Swedes won the initiative and invaded England.

The Swedes had a strong center with four Elite Salvo units, a medium artillery and Gustavus as their commander.

On the right hand flank, the dragoons deployed in an enclosed field and their far flank was protected by two Medium Cav with Carbine and Commanded Shot and two of the Heavy Swedish Pistol Cav.

The Left hand flank had one Medium Cav with Carbine and Commaded Shot, two Heavy Swedish Pistol Cav and 1 x Swedish Hakapelita aka Heavy Elite Cav Shock.

Martin had a solid line of pike & shot and medium artillery.  The left hand flank had a dragoon and Heavy Cav Pistol while the right hand flank had the Elite Heavy Cav Pistol.

Turn 1
The Swedes don't mess around, advancing agressively to the English with a triple move!

The Swedish Dragoons beat up on the English Dragoon, safe in the knowledge of having supporting mounted behind them.

Turn 3
The English Dragoons retreat which the Swedish foot's advance slows down after some very acurate English shooting.

The Swedish mounted advance to within shooting range.

The English Charge!

Turn 4
The Swedes Charge in

The attack doesn't go completly to plan with a Salvo unit being broken, but the remaining Swede unit is free.....

Turn 6
The Swedes finally break thru the remaining mounted on the right hand flank and advance.
The Dragoons shot away the English Dragoon and make a beline to the baggage.

The Swedish foot charge on mass before the English flank charge arrives.

On the left flank, the Swedish mounted receive a charge from the English Elite and it doesn't go well for the Swedes.

Turn 8
The Swedes prove victorious after decimating the English centre and right hand flank!

ADLG-R Early 30 Years War Germans vs Later 30 Years War Swedish

Sean has been busy painting and basing up a bunch of Pike & Shot that were originally for FoGR, but never got there.

One of the joys of ADLG-R is the smaller figure count, so, you can paint up an army much quicker, or, buy lots more armies.

:-)

Sean had put some banners on his pike and was running them as Early 30 Years War Germans, so I brought in my Later 30 Years War Swedes for a vaguely historical game.

The Swedes won the initiative and attacked.  Would have been rude not to.

Sean went for a deep deployment with his six foot in a dense formation, with heavy cuirassiers on the left and reiters on the right.

I went for the classic long line of foot with my heavy elite mounted on the left and the non heavy elite on the right.

Close up of the Germans

The Swedes advance and take fire from the very accurate German artillery

The German mounted retreat in face of the Swedish forces while the Swedish foot take fire.

As the Swedes come into range, they start to take effects from fire.

The German and Swedish mounted move into range while the Swedish foot suffer heavy casualties to fire.

Close up of the centre, the Swedes have lots of markers.....

 The lines meet!

The German reiters beat the Swedish mounted and advance to take the guns.  Some very desperate close range fire from the artillery slows the attack.

The Swedish mounted finally broke thru the German mounted wing and started to roll up the German flanks.

End result, big win to the Swedes!

ADLG-R Early 17th Century French vs New Model English

Nice to be back with ADLG-R after my horrible performance at The Challenge.

With ADLG-R now stable on the May 2019 release, a few more people from the club have started to play it and a few are basing up some spare troops as Keils and other larger units.

Martin brought his New Model English and I had the French.

The end result was a mutual destruction with both armies loosing quite a few bases and nearly everything had a cohesion marker on it by the end of the game.

The French won the initiative and attacked.

We both had armies of around 24 break points.  I had a central command of impact pike & shot supported by two heavy artillery and mounted flanks.

Turn 1.  The French advance

Turn 4

The French run out of pips and can't hold onto the impetuous mounted, so, they charge a pike & shot.  Luckily it was already disrupted, but the P&S held its ground.

Turn 5
The lines crash
One of the French foot units is looking rather poorly.

On the right hand flank, the French mounted have burst thru

Turn 6
The English flank charge!

Turn 8
The French foot finally break thru

ADLG-R Pirates vs Later Austrians

And now for something serious PIRATES!!!!

Geoff wanted to bring out his FoGR pirates, so, he mocked up a list and brought them for a game of ADLG-R. 

I haven't written up any rules for ships, but since Geoff had gone to the effort of bringing his pirate ship, it would have been rude to not have a water way.  The ship didn't add anything to the game other than a menacing threat of artillery.

After a very bloody firefight, both armies conceded the table and retreated in an orderly fashion (mutual destruction)



Deployment

Annoyingly, I forgot to bring some baggage




Turn 1
The Austrians advance

First blood to the Austrians!

Turn 1 Pirates

How come their shooting is much more effective?  We are trained Austrians

Turn 2
The Austrian Dragoons see an opportunity and block the escape route of the Pirate Light Foot, allowing the mounted to charge them down

Turn 2 Pirates
hmmmm, the Pirates did the same thing to the dragoon.....

Turn 3
The Austrian mounted charge the pirates and it didn't go well

 End of Turn 3
The Austrian right hand flank, including general is wiped out to just one Pirate unit!

Turn 4
The Austrian's advance slows under the pirate musket volleys

Turn 5
The Austrians break thru on the left hand flank, while getting ready for the flank attack on the right

Turn 6
The Pirates charge and break thru.  I think they caused 4 markers on a unit that had already taken 5.....

Shortly afterwards, both armies broke, the Pirates lost 26 of 26 and the Austrians lost 25 of 22.

ADLG in Pamplona!

The CLWC descended upon Pamplona this weekend for an ADLG competition.

The theme, "army must contain a minimum of two cataphracts"

Interesting choice, not a period I've ever tried, so, I brought my Chinese army, using the Southern and Northern Dynasties. 

The Europeans generally use a two list competition, so, one list an impact mounted version, the other a medium foot with an Elephant.

The Runners & Riders, some very scary opponents

The result, I got 4th!  I managed four wins, a mutal destruction and Jean-yves in the final round absolutely spanked me.  Very impressed to get 4th place.

Before the comp, we took a side trip to San Sebastian for some sun, wine and pinxtos (Basque for tapas)

I didn't take many photos of the games as I was too busy in the games.

Game 1 vs Juan Carlos's Sassanid Persians.

Yes, that was a 3 wide elite Elephant with two elite impact swordsman death star.

I found the best way to deal with the death star, flank both armies and forced the Elephants to split up.

 Game 2 vs Eduardo's Patrician Romans.  

One all mightly centre of 8 legionaires, supported by elite auxilia and two medium artillery.

Luckily, the flanks were pretty week so we went thru them first with my impact mounted

Game 3 vs Carlos's Kyro Koreans

A mutual destruction!

Game 6 the final round

Civil war vs Jean-yves