So, the battle of Blor Heath took place !!! The game was very dynamic and interesting. A lot of small things that surfaced during the battle, just gave the opportunity to refresh the rules in memory of the next campaign for the Wars of the Roses.
The terrain, disposition and general orders we made in accordance with the historical descriptions of the battle, although we ignored the ditch before the positions of the Yorkists (kept it in mind
). Lancastrian's wards received orders " Hasty Assault," the Yorkists, respectively, - " Defend Position".
With this disposition, other than how to attack, there were no other options for the Lankastrians. The battle began with the movement of the Lancastrians' mounted battles and the counter-shooting of Yorkists.
The cavalry, carrying the loss, got to the positions of the Yorkists, where there was a felling between the stakes. But to attack in hand-to-hand could only Audley's ward. Holland's ward did not dare attack the stakes and stopped in confusion. Audley's ward, fighting alone against two wards, was abandoned by the Yorkists. Archers of the Lancastrians approached the shooting range and were able to fire some of Harrington's ward. In view of its small number, the company from the Harrington's ward of could not withstand the heavy fire and flew with losses. On this all the luck of the Lancastrians ended.
Reorganized, the Audley's ward again attacked the position of Yorkists. Holland also managed to inspire his warriors to attack, and his ward attacked the position of Salisbury. Started a hard felling between the stakes.
Audley's ward was already exhausted by the attacks on the position of Montagu and could not stand the strain of melee. After suffering great losses, ward fled, smashing in the way behind Sutton's archers. The right flank of the Lancastrians was broken.
Holland's ward was discarded, but Holland continued to stubbornly attack Salisbury's position.
The heroic stubbornness of Holland led to disastrous results. Just as before, the Audley's ward, Holland's ward was completely exhausted by attacks on the position of Yorkists. In the end, and this ward, having suffered tangible losses, was turned into a flight. And also crushed the archers behind her from the Sutton's ward, under the command of Sir John Skidmore. The army of the Lancastrians was defeated and turned into a general flight.
The battle was completely in accordance with historical descriptions. Did not Baron Audley die. The rest exactly corresponded to "reality". That once again confirmed the complete absence of tactical thinking among the Lancastrians in this case. As a flimsy excuse, one can use what the Lancastrians did not see from the foot of the hill of stakes and the ditch in front of the positions of the Yorkists, they retreated behind the fortifications at the very beginning of the battle. But the presence of Wagenburg, should have hinted to the Lancastrians for the presence of fortifications, but ... most likely the Baronian arrogance and inexperience did their job.
Since we had time, we decided to play a hypothetical continuation if the cavalry had crushed the infantry and the infantry of the Lancastrians would have carried out the next attacks of positions.
Infant companies of the Lancastrians were cut through the pegs in the battles of the Yorkists. Began a brutal massacre. Boots Salisbury could not stand it and fled.
But on the left flank, the Lancastrians were attacked, out of Wagenburg, by Harrington.
The Skidmore's foot soldiers, attacked from two sides, were completely defeated. The remains rushed in all directions. The panic quickly spread across all the troops and the already battered and exhausted remnants of the Lancastrian's infantry turned to flight.
Overtime also did not save the Lancastrians from a devastating defeat.
The game turned out great! Many thanks for playing Dimon and Roman !!!
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