Bamberg 9th March 1632 28mm game

[nevermore]

Bamberg 9th March 1632

Enjoy the photos another 95 of these are on the website to feast your eyes on.

cheers and keep wargaming the hobby...malc the manc.

The arrival of the Catholic forces seemed to undermine Horns confidence
in the Bamberg position.He positioned his newly raised Solms infantry in
the inadequate earthworks with cavalry screen out front with the majority
of his cavalry waiting on the left flank.Horn planned to let his new recruits
take the brunt of the attack while placing his more experienced forces on the
safer side of the river and sending his baggage and the majority to the rear.

Earthworks were not fully constructed and are classed as soft cover

Objective - For the Catholics to cross the bridge and capture the town
                  the Swedish force was to defend.

Map of the battle



from above



Swedish gun



Catholic cav



Catholic cav move into position



Big cheer for the heavy stuff Catholic boys.



Catholic infantry



Swedish infantry in position at the river



Artillery at the bridge



Imperial Catholic army await orders



Flags and cheers help boost confidence among the ranks.



Swedish regiment await behide the earthworks



The advance order



The melee begins and the pikes push



http://grimsbywargamessociety.webs.com/

[Blue in vt]

 

A very impressive looking battle from one of my favorite time periods...thanks for sharing.

What rules system were you playing?

Cheers,

Blue

[tomek917]

Beautiful!

[Engel]

Wow, great pictures.
Thanks for sharing.

[nevermore]

A very impressive looking battle from one of my favorite time periods...thanks for sharing.

What rules system were you playing?

Cheers,

Blue

We started with Father Tilly rules,but these for a large game were slow but very good in other areas of the rules, so we addapted the movement system and initiative dice and the cards and mixed them up with Pike and shot rules,one or two things needed tweaking here and there, but we got the feel of the period in the end and it became bloody...father tilly rules are good but for large games like we have at Grimsby it just don't work and the pike and shot rules are good but one or two rules like movement is just plain stupid and i don't think the rules were looked into deep enough, not knocking them though as they are great for evening battles and you get a outcome by the end of the night.
Overall i like to call it wargame research to reach what we wanted by using two sets of differant rules.

[Captain Blood]

Gorgeous.

[Axebreaker]

That's simply a lovely looking game!

Christopher

[Melnibonean]

Looks really great.
Beautiful big regiments formed into beautiful big armies.

[Galloping Major]

Another great looking battle 


www.gallopingmajorwargames.com

[OSHIROmodels]

Great stuff as always 

Collection envy 

cheers

James

[Arthur]

Wot the others said 

I definitely recommend swinging by the Grimsby club's website to have a look at the full gallery (95 pics !). You can also view and download the photos in greater size and resolution there.   

[dhtandco]

not to mention the free downloadable flags,darn I just mentioned them!!!