Confederate Army Destroyed By Cortesia

 Today Mat and I did a rematch of our imagi-nations late 1800s Cortesia versus the Confederacy. This time my Cortesians had an extra field piece and the Confederates smaller guns had a more limited range. We forgot to roll the chance die to see if the Cortesian general was indisposed with his mistress.

  As in the previous game, over half my force were militia and the Confederates were partly classed by dice rolls. They are very similar to Army, Red White & Blue (Ameriga). mat didn't get any veterans, two militia and the rest regular class.

  Mat won the roll for setting up so I had to set up my forces first. Unlike our previous battle the gap in the board in my setup zone was designated (by die roll) as normal crossable so a board was put across it. I won the roll for first move and made a cautious, probing advance on the flanks, avoiding the enemy artillery in the center. Mat eventually made a cautious advance from his right and a major advance in the center. The latter was subject to firing from multiple Cortesian units and was stopped.

  One of my cannon shots killed some of my own cavalry - a hazard of matchstick (or cotton bud sticks).

  We used Funny Little Wars rules which don't include our usual leadership roll to move into melee. However the FLW rules allow a charged unit to fire at a charging unit at the halfway point if it starts from more than a half move away. (In Warhammer this is called 'overwatch' but has a penalty to firing). This does discourage frontal cavalry charges.

  Below: A depleted Confederate unit prepares for a charge of mounted Cortesian rifles.

After Cortesian mounted infantry charge and take out Confederates with their jammed machinegun the Confederate regulars turn and attack and wipe them out!

                                                               Confederate advance

      Cortesian militia storm through a stock yard. A Cortesian infantry unit found itself enveloped by multiple units.

                                                                    Cortesian lancers

                  Cortesian light artillery - yes that is a WW2 Marxman American naval officer!

                             Cortesian regulars shelter in rocks but suffered greatly from counter fire.

                           Confederate lines, foreground and Cortesian in the distance.

                                                     Cortesian regular infantry and Gatling...

                                                                Cortesian militia

                                                                      Cortesian lines

                                                     Confederate general with Texas cavalry

                     Cortesian mounted force attacks Confederates in the rear, but rolled appalling dice!

Towards the end of the battle Cortesian militia charged forward to capture the enemy general! He resisted but was hacked down by the cruel machetes! The Cortesian colonel was saddened as he wished to capture his foe, perhaps even to entertain him with tortillas and tequila.

The Confederate regular infantry were at first unaware of the death of their commander and, with morale high from recent victories battled on until finally retreating. Very few Confederates survived the battle.

NOTES: Just in case you didn't get this from my earlier battle report, the figures used are not all from the same era but are used for convenience. The regular Cortesians in peaked caps are actually Japanese and the Mexicans (that Cortesians are based on) did not go in much for gaiters. 

 You might notice quite a few conversions including Timpo swoppet Mexicans lancers that were created a number of decades ago.

 The majority of Confederates are 1860s style ones with a few that are intended as what Confederates might look like in the 1880s to early 1900s. I haven't found time, yet to make a large number of imaginary late 19th century Confederates but cowboys and Spanish American War Spanish are sources for figures.