Today I ran my new Muscovite skirmish group against my opponent.
My friend usually plays with poles, but today he choose to play a Swedish detachment of 13fsps.
My force strength was 8 points.
I rolled five dice for special effects and got a good day, choice of terrain, delayed two units ( 2 bases of musketeers an 2 bases of veteran reiters) and managed to cause panic on 4 bases of reiters.
Eventually those effects made my game quite easy.
I decided to take two of the scouting points and try to deny them from my opponent. He had placed 2 guns,2 bases of musketeers , 3 bases of dragoons and 2 bases of veteran reiters near the third objective along with his commander. I thought that was too much for my six bases servant cossacks and moved them away from the swedes.
In the end we caused heavy casualties on both sides, but I succeeded in keeping the swedes out from the other two objectives. On sixth turn we were locked in shooting contest in the middle of the board and i managed to scout the third point with my sub commander.
The Russians seemed to work better when they were painted. I scored a tactical victory.
Kiitos ja moi!
Samu