Saturday 13 August 2011

Supplies to Pewsey...

Since the defeat of the royalists at Hungerford the parliamentarians have been putting Pewsey under some pressure. An initial raid was beaten off by royalist horse some time back, but now the parliamentarian forces of Sir Warwick Hunt are slowly gaining control of the area. A royalist supply train makes an attempt to reach Pewsey ....
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The hastily thrown up defences at Pewsey, across the road into the town ...

The relief column approaches ...
parliamentarian dragoons are spotted in the edge of the wood and nearby hedges
As the royalists organise themselves to deal with the dragoons, parliamentarian horse arrives ...
The fight with dragoons intensifies while the parliamentarian horse move towards the supply wagons ...
The dragoons are being pushed out of the woods by royalist horse and commanded shot ...
The lead parliamentarian horse regiment captures a wagon of supplies ...
The commander of the royalist relief force escapes capture and seeks refuge in Pewsey ..
While the lead parliamentarian horse regiment enjoys rooting thorugh the supplies, their other two regiments pause due to the presence of the royalist foot and the commander tries to cajol them into action ...
Royalist foot give fire as the parliamentarian horse advance ...
Infantry exchage fire while the horse fight it out ...
After much affray the royalists horse lose, their infantry retire to safety with some of the supplies. The parliamentarian horse enjoy plundering a second supply wagon,
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A victory for Parliament !

5 comments:

Springinsfeld said...

Gripping stuff. Glad to see the ECW figures back in action. You are having a good weekend it seems :-)
best-Mike

Fitz-Badger said...

Boooooo! Hiss!

Great report though.

tidders2 said...

We had an ejoyable game.

If the royalist horse regiment had cleared the wood and pased a moral test they would have smashed into the rear of parliamentarian horse and the outcome would have been quite different.

-- Allan

Mosstrooper said...

Great game! .

littlejohn said...

marvelous game! I'm just getting back into the swing of ECW after a long hiatus...thanks for the inspiration!