Die Altburg Sonne
Consternation in Vienna this week as the Emperor Charles dies after consuming a gourmet dish of poisonous mushrooms. Frenetic diplomatic work has begun to ensure that his daughter, Princess Maria Theresé can ascend to the throne. Archbishop Heinz has already proposed the "Pragmatic Sanction" to allow her ladyship to replace her beloved father.
In the Grand Duchy of the Blaü the Gröan has already been mustering forces for war in support of his Sponsor the Prussian King, as well as raising extra revenues.
In other news the Exiled English Duke Bigmouth has landed in the West Country and will seek battle at some remote bog named Sedgemoor... He has, as his aides, the Marquis de Sadd and Fat Colonel Pumphosen, who is leading a wild geese Regiment from the Grand Duchy of the Bläu.
The Game
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| The field of Sedgemore. Somewhere in ye olde West Country. |
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| The Duke deploys |
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| Cummerbund brings King George's army on table. |
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| Bigmouth hides behind his Yokel pikemen. Have they had their wheat based biscuit breakfast I wonder? They'll need it. |
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| Pumphosen's Blue Regiment. The only professionals on Bigmouth's team. |
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| The lines close |
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| And Bigmouth hides behind his Pike block |
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| The King's Dragoons take the town |
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| And the firing is about to start |
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| Pumphosen covers off a cavalry attack along the river |
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| The Duke of Bigmouths lads get the worst of it. |
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| The Pike suffer particularly |
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| The cavalry hit the Blue Musketeers and are bounced. |
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| The Rebels are recoiling across the field, and lose two guns to the Royal Dragoons. |
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| The remnants of the Royalist cavalry withdraw |
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| The end, as the Duke flees. Judge Geoffrey will have his hands full. |
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| Leaving Pumphosen and his blue wildgeese regiment to escape. Somehow I suspect he will make it! |
Great game. I revised and touched up these really old Pendraken Marlburians for these games. Worked well.
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