Poles vs Ottomans 17th Century AAR

[Hwiccee]

This is a brief AAR of a game. It was a fictional battle using the 'With Fire & Sword' supplement to the Twilight of Divine Right rules. A Polish army with Cossack and Russian allies faced him an Ottoman with Crimean Khanate (Tatar) and other allies.


The Polish commander anchored his two flanks with his less 'effective' command, the Cossacks on their left and the Russians & lighter Polish troops on their right. In the centre were the Winged Hussars and the best of the Polish army. It quickly emerged that these were going to try to smash through the Ottoman centre. Unfortunately the Ottomans had a similar plan which proved to be more successful. The Ottoman commander had placed their Tatar allies opposite the Cossacks and their low quality troops facing the Russians and the low quality Poles. All of the best Ottoman troops, the Janissaries, the Kapakula cavalry (Sipahi of the Porte) & others, were in the centre.


Once the game started it was soon emerged that the Polish centre was going to attack & they did so with some initial success. Meanwhile on the Polish left the two opposing low-quality commands spent most of the game skirmishing without seriously engaging. It was on the Polish left that the decisive move was made. Here the Cossack allies of the Poles were all on foot but the opposing Tatars were all light horse. The Tatars screened their opponent and moved to bypass them and get into the Polish rear. This the Tatars successfully achieved and this turned the tide in the major clash in the centre. The Polish centre was forced to divert troops to counter the Tatars which were now in their rear. This tipped the balance in the centre and one by one the Winged Hussars fell and then the supporting troops. The Polish centre was soon taking army morale tests to remain in the battle which they stubbornly kept passing & so the command was wiped out by the Ottoman forces. The total defeat of the Polish centre was enough to cause the collapse of the Polish army & their allies.

The victorious Ottomans were last seen on the road to Warsaw.

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[FierceKitty]

"winged Ottoman hussars"?

[Hwiccee]

"winged Ottoman hussars"?

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[Friends of General Haig]

Fabulous looking game, Nick, and interesting AAR.

I can’t help wondering what this might look like in 28mm - just idle curiosity of course 

[Hwiccee]

FoGH: Yes one day we will have to do it

Seriously it would look spectacular but we would need a pretty big table. This was 8 by 4 (5?) and I guess in 28mm we would need at least twice that!

Still someday...........