RENAISSANCE BATTLES

1494-1700
Volume 2

by PETER SIDES

RENAISSANCE BATTLES
1494-1700
Volume2
by
Peter Sides
First Published May 1997
ISBN 1 87435118 X
Copyright Gosling Press
Gosling Press
35 Cross Street
Upton
Pontefract
WF91EU

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INTRODUCTION
Renaissance Battles Book II is the fifth book in a series of books that allows the
wargamer to re-fight actual historical battles with his own preferred set of wargame
rules. I have based this book on WRG De Bellis Renationis rules, and I have included
explanations for troop types for other rule sets, including a standard key for troop types.
My book gives enough information for you to-enact the battles described in a concise
and compact way, covering why it took place, the forces engaged, given in elements and
actual numbers of men, it gives a deployment guide and illustration of the battle's initial
positions, the victory conditions and historical outcomes.
Tue Battle map is drawn to scale and to simplify it I have used a standard set of symbols
to represent the troop types: these are in the "bit at the back". My intention in producing
these battles is to allow you the wargamer, to learn the reasons the battles turned out the
way they did from actually refighting thei;n. In order to balance the game to produce an
historical result I have used the 'command' ability in the armies to allow armies which
were often smaller to win as they did historically. But you will find that the difference
between victory or defeat is always very small.
Renaissance Book I covered early Renaissance and the Italian wars. Book II continues
that period in other theaters and extends it to cover the expansion of the Ottoman
Empire; the French Religious wars in Europe and the struggles in Japan and Ireland up to
the 1600, providing battles :from a few thousand men to massive affairs that would take
the resources of an entire club to re-enact. I have provided a figure scale allowing you to
change the size of the armies to fit your wargames armies on the table, but the bigger
battles would make fine Demo games.
Writing this book, I will be the first to admit this is not a major piece of historical work.
Although the general history of the battle will be correct, exact 'orbats' and army
compositions are often approximations as the actual list doesn't exist. History is like that.
I have used WRG army lists to create the armies when information is lacking. And so if
you have conflicting information, maybe :from a source I haven't seen, then change it.
Historical accounts are often at odds with each other. This book is not written in stone
and is not intended to be the definitive account. My only hope is that as you fight the
battle you will come to understand the problems and blunders the real commanders had
to face.
Although this book is intended to re-enact battles it is also ideal for setting up your own
battles with historical armies of the period. So if you don't want to be constrained by
history, can you do better than the actual generals ?

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CONTENTS
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1488 ADANA OITOMAN v MAMLUKS

1516 MARJ DABJK OTTOMAN v MAMLUKS
1517RAYDANIYAH 01TOMANvMAMLUKS
1526 MOHACS - HUNGARY - OITOMAN INVASION
1561 KAW ANAKAJIMA - JAPAN
1562 DREUX - FRENCH WARS OF RELIGION
1567 ST. DENIS - FRENCH WARS OF RELIGION
1567 JARNAC - FRENCH WARS OF RELIGION
1567 FARSETMORE -ffiELAND
1569 MONCONTOUR - FRENCH WARS OF RELIGION
1570 ANEGAWA - JAPAN
1572 MJKATA-GA-HARA - JAPAN
1575 NAGASHINO- JAPAN1587 COUTRAS - FRENCH WARS OF RELIGION
1583 SHIZUGATAKE - JAPAN
1589 ARQUES - FRENCH RELIGIOUS WARS
1590 IVRY-FRENCHRELIGIOUS WARS
1595 CLONTIBRET - ffiELAND
1598 YELLOW FORD - ffiELAND
1600MOYRYPASS-ffiELAND
1600 SEKIGAHARA - JAPAN
1601 KINSALE-ffiELAND

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ADANA 1488
OTIOMAN verse MAMLUKS
The Ottoman Empire had grown under Mehmed II al-Fatih (The conqueror), but had
stalled in its drive westward with Mehmed's failure to take Belgrade in 1456. In 1468 the
Ottoman empire re-absorbed Karaman extending its borders east to the Taurus
Mountains and :finally removing the independent Anatolian emirates. This left only the
Turcoman Confederation of the Al Koyunlu (White Sheep) as the major threat to the
East. But Mehmed II died in 1481 and the struggle for succession between Bayezi.d II
and his brother Jem greatly reduced the drive of the Ottoman offensive east towards the
Safavid Empire.
As part of the general Ottoman expansion an army of 60000 Turks under the vizier Ali
Pasha crossed the Taurus mountains to invade Cilicia (Little Armenia). Cilicia was a
vassal state of the Mamluk empire which stretched down through Palestine to and
including Egypt. It is unclear if Ali Pasha intended a full scale invasion of the Mamluk
Empire, but he only got as far as Adana on the Tapsus river when he was confronted by
40000 Mamluks.
ARMIES
MAMLUK
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Uzbey 40000 men
Ali Pasha 60000 men
1. Uzbey CinC Si(S),30Si(S)
A. Ali Pasha CinC Si(S)+ lOSi(S)
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B. 4Bw(I),4Hd(S),3Lh(S)
C. 4Bw(I),4Hd(S),3Lh(S)
3. Sub-General Si(S), 7 Si(S)
D. 6Art(S)+6FO. 24RBw(S)
Karamanli allies 8Si(F},10Si(O)
E. Karamanli Vassals.
Ally General Si(F), 18Si(I), 18Lh(F)
4. Sub-General Si(S), I OSi(S),
F. Anatolians
15 Si(O)
Sinan Pasha Sub-Gen. Si(S)
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DEPLOYMENT
Place the Ottomans first, Mamluks move first.
VICTORY CONDITIONS
A third of a command destroyed causes it to be broken. Two thirds of the army lost

equals defeat. The Ottoman camp equals two elements if lost.

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Uzbey the commander of the Mamluk force considered his force to be inferior in both
numbers, quality (only I 0000 were Mamluks , the rest where a mixed bag of Karamanli
Turkish exiles, Arabs and Turcoman) and weaponry. He concluded his only hope lay in
an immediate attack on the Ottomans who had only just arrived at Adana having
descended the Taurus mountains. The battle started with an all-out Mamluk charge on
the Ottoman lines. Ali Pasha had in fact deployed ready for battle well in advance of the
Mamluk attack. The first battle to collapse was the Ottoman's right flank under Sinan
Pasha. He was killed in the initial charge. The Anatolians turned and fled. On the left
flank of the Ottoman army the Karamanli allies also turned and ran as the initial Mamluk
charged thundered towards them. In the centre the massed artillery, chained together to
form an obstacle, supported by the Janisseries halted the Mamluk charge. With both
flanks now gone and the Karamanli allies only stopping to loot the Ottoman camp, vizier
Ali Pasha was desperately trying to hold the centre, now almost surrounded. Uzbey at
this point broke off the attack and allowed the Ottomans to retreat to their camp. The
next day Uzbey brought forward his army only to find the Ottomans had gone, retreating
back across the Taurus mountains.

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MARJ DABIK 1516

OTIOMAN verse MAMLUK

In the last years of Bayezid II and most of Selim I reign the Ottoman Empire expanded
into the eastern countries. Temporarily halted from its pressure on the west internal
conflict (the struggle for succession between Bayezid and his brother Jem) and pressure
from the Safavids of Iran. The Safavids had became a major threat to the Ottomans by
1501. Selim I having defeated the Safavids of Iran at Caldiran in 1514 went on to annex
Dhu'l-Qadr in 1515, bringing his empire to the borders of the Mamluk empire. Expanding
down the Sinai towards Egypt, Salim faced the Mamluks at Marj Dabiq. The Mamluks
had encountered the Ottomans before, at Adana in 1488, and halted their expansion into
the Mamluk Empire. Tuman Bey confidant that again the Ottomans could be stopped
marched to face a numerically superior much as had been done in 1488.
ARMIES
OTIOMAN
60000 men approximately
1. CinC Si(S)+ lOSi(S)
2. Azabs 3Bw(I),3Sh(F),6Hd(S)
3. Azabs 3Bw(I),3Sh(F),6Hd(S)
4. 4 War-waggons
5. 6Artillery (S)
6. 4Warwaggons
7.Sub-Gen Si(S) 9Si(0),9Si(I)
8. Janissary 6R.bw(S),6RSh(O).
9. 6Lh(S),2Lh(O), 18Lh(F). 9Lh(I)
10.Sub-Gen Si(S) 9Si(0),9Si(I)
II.Janissary 6R.bw(S),6RSh(O).
12.6Lh(S),2Lh(O), 18Lh(F). 9Lh(I)

MAMLUK
40000 men approximately
A CinC Si(S), 15 Si(S)
B. 18Lh(O)
C. 5Bw(I),6Sk(I),4Wb(O)
D. 2Cm(F)
E. Sub-Gen Si(S), 15Si(S)
F. 6Lh(S)
G. Sub-Gen Si(S), 15Si(S)
H. 6Lh(S)

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DEPLOYMENT
Place the Ottomans first. The Mamluks move first.
VICTORY CONDITIONS
One third of a command destroyed equals a broken command. Two thirds of the anny
destroyed equals defeat.

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The Mamluks deployed as they normally would and appeared to have taken little interest
in the Ottoman dispositions. The Ottomans for their part had changed their tactics since
Adana in 1488. They now were to rely on fire power to defeat the superior Mamluk
cavalry. The Mamluk charge quickly drove back the Ottoman light cavalry, who fell back
to reform on the flanks of the Ottoman line. Now the Mamluks were faced with warwagons, artillery and massed arquebus and bows. The Mamluk charge was stopped dead
in its tracks and then broken by the Ottoman counter charge from its cavalry waiting in
the third line. Tuman Bey realised that the traditional way of fighting was not going to
work against the Ottomans and he set about rapidly re-organising his army, building I 00
ox drawn war-wagons with arquebusiers and light copper cannons, recmiting sharpshooters and collecting all the heavy artillery from his cities he could muster. Trading
tetTain for time Tuman Bey prepared his army to match Ottoman firepower with his own.

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RAYDANIYAH 23rd January 1517

MAMLUKS v OTTOMANS
Sellin I expanding his empire down the Sinai towards Egypt, having defeated the
Mamluks at Marj Dabiq capturing Aleppo and Damascus in 1516. By 1517 Sellin had
advanced past Jerusalem and was marching on Cairo when the Mamluk Sultan Tuman
Bey confronted him at the village of Raydaniyah. Tuman Bey had re-organised his army
after his defeat at Marj Dabiq. Realising that the traditional Mamluk method of warfare
was useless against the better armed Ottomans he had built 100 ox-drawn war-waggons
carrying copper cannons and recruited camel riding sharp shooters. He also gathered all
the heavy a1tillery from his cities and deployed them behind defensive earthworks in front
of his army. The Mamluk position was to be based on a defensive line from Jabal al
Ahmar (the Red Mountain) across Raydaniyah village and onto the irrigated land beyond,
placing his artillery behind stone emplacements and his army behind earthworks.

ARMIES
MAMLUK

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43000 approx
A Tumen Bey, CinC Si(S)+ 15Si(S)
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C.3Bw(I);6Sh(I).
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H.Sub-Gen,Si(S)+ 15Si(S)
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68000 approx
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DEPLOYMENT
Place the Mamluks first. The Ottomans should be just out of range of the war-wagons.
All artillery (S) and war-wagons cannot move. Count the earthworks as a fixed obstacle.

VICTORY CONDITIONS
For both sides; l/3rd of command destroyed breaks it, 2/3rds of the army lost routs the
army. The camp = 4 Elements if lost.

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Selim's army arrived at Birkat al Hajj a short distance from Raydaniyah on the 22nd
January.. The Mamluks quickly manned the defenses at Raydaniyah, but Selim either by
reconnaissance or treachery, learned of the defences and halted his army outside the
range ofMamluk's lighter guns range. Advancing a third of his army with his artillery to
pin the Mamluks in their defenses he marched the majority of his forces around or across
Jabel Al Ahmar and fell on the Mamluk camp. It is unlikely this manouvre was totally
unseen by the Mamluks but Tumen Bey was now forced to tum and fight the Ottomans
in the open. Again as at Marj Dabik, the Ottoman superior firepower was to smash the
Mamluk charges and the Mamluk army was swept away.
Note. It is unclear as to whether Selim marched his Ottomans over or around Jabel Al
Ahmar. If you choose the option of marching around Jabel Al Ahmer the Ottomans
should arrive behind the Mamluk camp, you will have to extend the battlefield back for
this.

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MOHACS 29th August 1526

HUNGARY v OITOMANS
The Ottoman Turkish empire having secured its Arabic borders turned its attention to the
Balkans. Suleyman I succeeding Selim I's reign by expanding into the Mediterranean and
the Balkans, bringing him into conflict with the growing Hapsburg Empire. Ottoman
pressure on the Christian Adriatic possessions had been growing for the past 20 years but
Europe was wracked with internal power struggles as ~he Great Italian Wars' raged
unchecked through central Europe. Hungary was seen as the main bulwark against
Ottoman expansion into Europe and was theoretically a powerful nation under the
Hapsburg Empire, but feudal anarchy and a weak king, Louis II, made Hungary ripe for
invasion. In 1521 Suleyman captured Belgrade, his intentions were clear, but apart from
weak calls from the Pope to throw back the Islamic armies, nothing was done and
Hungary was further divided by peasant revolts and opposition to being under Hapsburg
rule. In 1526 Sulimann advanced into Hungary with an army of 60-70000 men. Louis II
could only muster 25000 men to face this invasion, meeting the Ottoman army on a
marshy flat plain on the banks of the Danube. Strangely, Louis was anticipating
reinforcements from Crotia and Transylvania but although currently outnumbered, he
decided to attack.

ARMIES
HUNGARIAN

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12000 Horse. 13000 Foot

1. King Louis II, 1OOO Knights
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2. 3000 Feudal Knights, 8Ln(O).
3. 1600 Foot , 4 Bw(I)
4. 1600 Foot, 4 Bw(I)
5. 7200 Mercinaries,15Pk(0);3Sh0).
6. 20 Guns, 2Art (I).
7. Perenni 3000 Hussars,Ally-Gen,Lh(F),8Lh(F)
8. 1400 Foot, 2Bd(I),1Sh(I),1Bw(I).
9. Bathiani 3000 Hussars,Ally-Gen,Lh(F),8Lh(F)
10. 1400 Foot, 2Bd(I),1Sh(I),1Bw(I).

40000 Horse. 8000 Foot

A. Sultan 5000 Guard Cavalry
CinC,Si(S).12 Si(S)
B.5000 Janissary Foot, Guard Cav
5R.Sh(F),8Si(S)
C.5000 Janissary Foot, Guard Cav
5R.Sh(F),8Si(S)
D. 2000 Azabs. 3Bw(I),2Hd(S)
E. 2000 Azabs. 3Bw(I),2Hd(S)
F. 80 Guns, 8Art(S)
G. 11 OOORoumeliot Horse.
Sub-GenSi(S), 27Si(O)
H.10000 Anatolian Horse, 25Si(I)
J. 4000 Bosnian Cav.
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DEPLOYMENT
Place the Turks first, Hungarians move first. The Ottoman artillery counts as an obstacle
and cannot move. The marsh is difficult and the river is impassable
VICTORY CONDITIONS
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Louis having drawn his army up in battle order, waited for the Ottomans to come into
sight. The Ottoman army was behind a slight hill and took some time to deploy. When it
did the Hungarians could only see the front rank of Roumeliot horse. The Roumeliot
cavalry did not advance until about 3 o'clock and was counter charged by the Hungarian
front rank horse. A huge cavalry melee developed with the Hungarian second line of
feudal cavalry joining in. The Roumeliot cavalry were driven up the hill and into the
Anatolian Cavalry. The Hungarian cavalry having driven its way through the front lines
Ottoman horse, came against the chained guns of the central battery supported by
Janissaries and horse. The Hungarian cavalry charge halted unable to attack further. The
supporting Hungarian foot, struggling to catch up with cavalry battle, were. attacked in
the flank by the Bosnian horse and were halted. The Hungarian left flank gave way first
falling back to marshy ground by the Danube to regroup. At this, the now static centre
turned and fled. The worst of the slaughter was spared as the Sultan ordered his army
not to pursue, but the Hungarian army lost nearly half its troops. King Louis drowned in
the rout and most of the heavy knights fell under horses too exhausted to escape. The
way to Vienna was now open to the Ottoman invasion but the Sultan did not continue
his advance and withdrew. He may have believed the Hungarian army to be a vanguard
of a much bigger army or he may have decided it was now too late in the year to
continue. Hungary now relieved from threat of invasion got on with tearing itself apart in
civil war.
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THE FOURTH BATTLE ofKAWANAKAJIMA 1561

THE AGE OF WAR
The Samurai clans Takeda and Uesugi had been at war for eleven years, having fought
four previous battles ofKawanakajima previously. Kawanakajima was a broad flat valley
on the border between the two clans, were the rivers Saigawa and Chikumagawa meet.
The previous battles had not resolved the conflict, as in each case the price of all out
victory was a gamble on all-out defeat, which neither side was prepared to take. Takeda
Shingen had seized power of the Takeda clan when his father had tried to disinherit him
in favour of his younger son. Takeda Shingen, a brilliant soldier, then expanded his
territory by defeating his neighburing Daimyo's. Murakami Y oshikiyo called for help
from his northern neighbour Uesugi Kenshin, in the hope that as a combined force they
could deter Shingen's expansion. But Uesugi demanded and got the overlordship over
Yoshikiyo, he now had the forces to face the Takeda in a decisive battle. Uesugi
marched on the important Takeda castle of Kaizu and camped on the mountain of
Saijoyama. Takeda had to defend this castle or loose Kwanakajima. ill just 24 days
Takeda faced Uesugi across the Saigawa river. But unlike before when the two armies
each awaited the attack of the other, Takeda struck camp and occupied Kaizu castle.
ARMIES
UESUGI KENSHIN

TAKEDA SHINGEN
Takeda Shingen 8000men
CinC Bd(0);2Bd(0);4Ln(F)
2Sh(0);3Bw(I)
Takeda Nobushige Sub-Gen Ln(F)
8Ln(F); 10Bd(0);5Bd(F);3 Sh(0);3Bw(I).
Naito Masatoyo Sub-Gen Ln(F)
6Ln(F);5Bd(0);5Bd(F);2Sh(0);2Bw(I)
Yamamoto Kansuke Sub-Gen Ln(F)
6Ln(F);5Bd(0);5Bd(F);2Sh(0);2Bw(I)
Kosaka Masanobu 8000 men
Sub-Gen Ln(F) 10Ln(F);20Bd(0);20Bd(F)
lOSh(O);lOBw(I)

Uesugi Kenshin 15000men

CinC Ln(F),6Ln(F)
Kakizaki Izum-no-Kami Kagageie
Sub-Gen Ln(F);10Ln(F),15Bd(O)
15Bd(F);5Sh(0);5Bw(I)
Takemato Hirotsuna SubGen Ln(F)
I OLn(F); 15Bd(O); 15Bd(F);4Sh(0);3Bw(I)
Irobe Katsunaga SubGen Ln(F)
lOLn(F); 15Bd(O); 15Bd(F);4Sh(0);3Bw(I)
Onmi-no-Kami Kagemochi 3000men
SubGen.Ln(F),5Ln(F)lOBd(O);lOBd(F)
3Sh(0);2Bw(I)

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DEPLOYMENT
Place the Takeda first and the Uesugi move first. The River Chikumagawa is tricky
except at the ford. The hills around Saijoyama are difficult other than on the track.
VICTORY CONDITIONS
The loss of l/3rd of a command causes it to be broken. The loss of 2/3rds of the army
causes it to rout.

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HISTORICAL OUTCOME
Takeda Shingen's gun-bugyo , Yamamoto Kansuke Haruyuki, had devised the plan of
Operation Woodpecker. His idea was a dawn attack on the Kenshin army from front and
rear, by deploying at night and sending a large force around the back of Kenshin's camp
attacking them from the heights of Saijoyama. Unfortunately, as Shingen's army
deployed during the night, Kenshin discovered the manoeuvre and deployed his army in
tum. Takeda deployed in the kakuyoku 'Cranes wing' formation and Kenshin deployed in
kuruma gakari 'winding wheel' formation, all this was performed on the plain before
Kaizu in total darkness and without noise. Come the Dawn Takeda was charged head on
by the Uesugi vanguard in a furious assault. The Takeda army held its ground but took
mounting casualties as Kenshin used his numerical superiority to rotate his troops in the
attack, sending in fresh formations as others tired. Masanobu, commanding the Takedia
flanking force, arrived at the summit of Saijoyama, to see the battle on the plain below.
Charging down to the ford to aid the Takeda army. Kagemochi guarding the ford with
3000 men could not hold Masanobu who broke through to attack the Uesugi army in the
flank. By midday the Uesugi army had been forced to retreat back to their camp at
Saijoyama. The next day they withdrew. The battle had been extremely bloody with both
sides taking over 50% casualties.

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DREUX - 19th December 1562

THE FIRST FRENCH WAR of RELIGION
The Italian Wars fizzled out in the 1540's and after followed a period of religious
upheaval and the rise of Protestantism. The French monarchy no long held sole power in
France and by 1560 the widow of Henry II, the Queen-Dowager, Catherine de Medici,
played Catholic off against Protestant in order to remain on the throne. She hoped that
her three weak sons, Francis, Charles and Remy could regain the power of the
monarchy in the future.
In France at this time the Protestants, called "Huguenots", lead initially by Louis of
Bourbon, the Prince of Conde and the Admiral of France, Gaspard de Coligny. Opposing
the Huguenots where the Catholic League, headed by the powerful Guise family, the
Duke Francis and his brother, the Cardinal of Lorraine. The Catholic League where
determined to stamp out this heresy in France and forced Catherine de Medici to issue
various edicts against the Huguenots. This uneasy 'balance of power between Catholic
and Huguenot finally erupted into civil war when a Protestant congregation was
massacred at Vassey, on the lst March 1562, by soldiers ofFrancis of Guise.

The Catholic "Triumvirate" (Francis of Guise, the Constable of France Montmorency

and the Marshal of France, St. Andre) seized the royal household to gain control of the
royal forces and both sides requested troops from allies aboard. The Huguenots by July
had seized Orleans and Beaugency and whilst still awaiting re-inforcements from
Germany marched on Paris and offered battle. But the Catholics, awaiting Spanish troops
from the Netherlands, refused to be drawn and the Huguenots moved off towards Le
Harve, to collect English re-inforcements. The Catholics in Paris under Montmorency
then pursued the Huguenots, overtook them and blocked their line of march at Dreux.
ARMIES
HUGUENOT FRENCH

CATHOLIC FRENCH
2000 Cavalry 16000 Infantry
Montmorency CinC Ln(O)
A. 860 d'Ordinance; 6Ln(O)
B.300 Argoulets, 2Lh(I)
C.3700 French Foot, 13Pk(I); 12Sh(I)
D.4700 Royal Swiss,24Pk(S);8Sh(O)
E. 8 GUNS; 2Art(O)
St. Andre's Sub-Gen Ln(O)
G.F.H each 400 Gendannes 3Ln(O)
I. 3700 French Foot, 12Sh(I); 12Pk(I); lSk(O)
J. 2200 Spanish Foot;7Sh(I);7Pk(O); 1SK(S)
Kl 700 Landsknechts; 9Pk(0);3Sh(I).
L.14 Guns, 3Art(O)

4000 Cavalry 9000 Infantry

Conde's CinC Ln(S)
1)500 Gendanne,400 Argoulets,1500 Reiters
4Ln(S);3Lh(I); lOPi(I).
2) 3100 French Foot, l 4Sh(I),3Sk(S)4Pk(I)
3)1550 Landsknechts 8 Pk(O); 2Sh(I)
4) 1 Ln{S)
Coligny Ally-General Ln(S)
5) 600Chevaux Leger;lOOOReiters;
4Ln(F), 7Pi(I)
6)2800 French Foot; 12Sh(I);3Sk(S);4Pk(I)
7)1500 Landsknechts 8Pk(0);2Sh(I)

Figure Scale I Element= 150men

DEPLOYMENT
Deploy the Catholics first. The Huguenots move first. Epinay is a fortified Built up area,
Blainville is just a BUA The Catholic camp= 4 Elements if lost

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VICTORY CONDITIONS
To be Broken Montmorency must loose 23 elements; St. Andre 21Elements;Coligny 14
Elements: Conde 16 Elements. The Catholic army routs on loosing 47 Elements. The
Huguenot army routs on loosing 59 Elements.

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IDSTORICAL OUTCOME
The Huguenot army marching without reconnaissance blundered into the wa1t111g
Catholics and hurriedly deployed to awaited the Catholic attack As noon approached
and the Catholics had not advanced, Conde ordered the attack Conde had deployed
facing Montmorency, only realising the full extent of the Catholic deployment as he
started to manoeuvre to his left, to outflank the Catholics. Montmorency seeing Conde
exposing his flank in doing so advanced and Conde hastily turned to face. The initial
Huguenot charge on the right broke through the Catholic cavalry, capturing
Montmorency and the village ofBlainville and charged on to plunder the Catholic camp.
On the Left Conde had hit the Swiss Infantry and had been repulsed. St. Andre tried to
support the Swiss with his Gendarmes, only to have them broken by the German reiters.
Several more charges by the Huguenots had not broken the Swiss and after the
landsknechts and the final Huguenot cavalry reserve under Rochfoucault had failed, St.
Andre launched a counter attack which broke the Huguenot infantry. Conde rallied some
cavalry and charged St. Andre's Gendarmes, only to be unhorsed and captured. Coligny
on the right had managed to gather his scattered horse and charged the flank of the
Catholics, capturing St. Andre but failing to capture Epemay. The battle ended after
Coligny's final assault on Epemay, with the Huguenots retreated three miles to Neuville.
St. Andre was murdered after the battle and the Duke of Guise was be murdered at the
siege of Orleans some weeks later. Shortly after this the peace treaty of Ambroise was
signed and the war ended.
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St. DENIS lOth November 1567

FRENCH WARS OF RELIGION
Catherine de Medici managed to maintain peace for the next five years. Her support
towards Spain and the Spanish in the Low Countries, bolstered Catholic power. As a
result the Huguenot leaders, Conde and Coligny, attempted to kidnap the Royal family
at Meaux, only to be driven off by the timely arrival of a large body of Royal Swiss
mercenaries, who then escorted the royal family back to Paris. The Huguenots having
shot their bolt and failed to secure the royal family and the control of the royal forces,
still went on to capture Montauban, Montpellier, Nimes, Valence, Veinne, Auxerre and
Orleans, with Conde establishing his Headquarters at St. Denis, North of Paris
blockading the capital. At this early stage in the conflict neither side was up to strength
and both awaited re-inforcements. Conde did not anticipate the Constable of France,
Montmorency, sallying out of Paris and so reduced his blockading force to a mere 3500
men. Faced with such a pitifully small force, the Constable had to give way to the calls
from the population to attack and on the IOth November he sallied out the North gate.
ARMIES
FRENCH HUGUENOT
1500 Horse 2000 Foot.
A Conde CinC.Ln(S)+4Ln(S)
B. Coligny Ally.Gen.Ln(S)+4Ln(F)
C. Genlis Ally.Gen.Ln(S)+4Ln(F)
D. 8Pk(O). E.6Sh(I). F.6Sh(I).
Re-inforcements ofDandelot
800 Horse, 2000 Foot.
Ally. Gen.Lu( S)+7Ln(F)
3Pk(I);l 7Sh(I).

FRENCH CATHOLIC
3000 Horse 14000 Foot
1.CinC.Ln(0)+4Ln(O)
2.Ln(0)+4Ln(O)
3.4.5&6 4Ln(F).
7,8 3Lh(I)
9.Swiss 15Pk(S);5Sh(O)
10.Royal French Foot 6Pk(I);I4Sh(I)
I I.French Foot. IOPk(I);IOSh(I).
12.Paris Militia 30 Hd(F)

Figure Scale I Element = I OOmen

DEPLOYMENT
Position the Huguenots first and move the Catholics first. St. Oven and Aubervilliers are
both fortified built up areas. The trenches are fixed obstacles. The ground marked rough
is type E terrain being enclosures and ditches to the outskirts of Paris.
Dandelots force - Historically did not arrive that day, but certainly could have. So if you
want to include them, treat as a flank march but arriving at point A The Seine is treated
as an ordinary River at point A only and is otherwise impassable. Roll each tum needing
a 6 to arrive.
VICTORY CONDITIONS
For each side a loss of l/3rd of a command indicates it is broken and 2/3rds of the army
causes it to rout. Do not include Dandelot's force unless it arrives on board.

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HISTORICAL OUTCOME
Conde had fortified a triangular base of St. Denis, St. Ouen and Aubervilliers, extending
his flanks with trench earthworks. Montmorency advancing out of Porte St. Martin and
St. Denis, formed into two lines. Though the Catholic attack found the Huguenot forces
dispersed, with many of the troops on the wrong side of the river Seine, its slow advance
past the outskirts of Paris allowed Conde to assemble What forces he had. The two
armies finally formed up for battle in the afternoon, with the two cavalry forces facing
each other. The Constable attempted to flank the Huguenot cavalry but in doing so came
within range of the arquebus troops in the trenches and fortified village, who drove the
cavalry back in disorder. At this Coligny and Genlis charged and drove the cavalry back
into the infantry. Montpensiers column on the right held under this attack but the Paris
militia fled back to Montmarte hill. Conde then charged head on into the Constable's
Gendarmes mortally wounding Montmorency, who was rescued by his son. In the centre
a furious cavalry melee ensued but numbers would soon tell against the Huguenots. As
neither Genlis or Coligny could make an impression on the remaining Catholic infantry,
Conde retired his cavalry back to St. Denis and the Catholics retired back to Paris.
The next day, with Dandelots re-inforcements, Conde offered battle again. But with the
Constable dying and in effect having been defeated the previous day, the Catholics
declined battle. 111e war dragged on until March 1568 when a peace was concluded at
Longjumeau.
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JARNAC 13th March1569

FRENCH WAR OF RELIGION
The campaign of 1567 was a success for the Huguenots and the peace treaty of
Longjumeau should have left them in a powerful position. The Treaty called for a
disbandment of the armies ofboth sides. The Huguenot army disbanded, with many of its
soldiers going to help fight the Spanish in the low countries. But the Catholics (now
known as the Royalists) had not disbanded their army and in August attempted to kidnap
Conde and Coligny at Noyers and forced the Queen-Dowager to withdrew all tolerance
for the Huguenots. The Catholic Royalists had timed this 'coup de main' when most of
the northern Huguenots were committed in the Low countries, supporting the Protestant
Dutch against Spanish. Conde raised an army of 16000 men from the south of France to
face the Royalists 20000 men, under Catherine's youngest son Henry of Anjou. The
following campaign was indecisive costing both sides 6-7000 men each, mostly from
desertion , but in the Spring of 1569 the army commander, Gespard de Tavannes,
decided to drive the Huguenot army away from its recruiting grounds of Guyenne. The
Huguenots held the north bank of the river Charente, with detachments holding the
crossing at Chateauneuf. So Tavannes marched upstream to Cognac, drawing the
Huguenot army with it, then, during the night, Tavannes doubled back to Chateauneuf
and captured the undefended bridge. The Protestants at Chateauneuf rallied at Vibrac,
but were brushed aside by the Royalist advance who forced a crossing of the river
Guirlande and captured Triac before encountering the main Huguenot army.

ARMIES
FRENCH ROYALIST

FRENCH HUGUENOT
Coligny 900 Horse 4000 foot
A)Ally GenLn(S)+5Ln(S)
B)4 Lh(I). C)6Pk(I);34Sh(I).
Conde 500 Horse 1500 Foot
D)CinC.Ln(S)+5Ln(S)
E)2Pk(I); 13 Sh(I)

Tavannes 2000 Horse 8000 Foot

l)CinC.Ln(0)+8Ln(O)
2)La Valettes 6Lh(I)
3)Reiters 6Pi(0)
4)Swiss 22Pk(S);8Sh(I).
5&6) French Foot-Each 8Pk(I);l7Sh(I)

Figure Scale 1 Element = 1OOmen

DEPLOYMENT
The Royalists are placed first and move first. Triac is a Fortified BUA. Conde's infantry
must be treated as a flank march arriving along the River Charente.
For Conde's Infantry dice a 6 to arrive at the point marked A.
In the actual battle the Infantry never arrived.

VICTORY CONDITIONS
The Huguenots must destroy 34 Elements to cause Broken and 68 Elements to cause
rout. The Royalists must cause 17 Elements on Coligny and 7 Elements on Conde to
cause broken and 34 Elements on Coligny and 14 Elements on Conde to cause rout.

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HISTORICAL OUTCOME
The Royalist forces captured Triac and were starting to engage Coligny's main force
when Conde arrived from Cognac with his Gendarmes. Conde had left his infantry still
marching and rushed on ahead. On seeing the situation, Conde immediately charged
Anjous' horse throwing them back on the main body and Coligny's Light horse broke the
Royalist light horse. The Huguenot cavalry charged on but could not break the Royalist
infantry and Conde's Gendarmes were taken in the flank by Royalist reiters, Conde being
captured. Coligny withdrew his forces as best he could and fell back on Cognac.
Conde was murdered after the battle and the Huguenots had many of its leaders killed or
captured. Most of the Huguenot forces made it back to Cognac which they held against
Royalist attacks in October. The leadership of the Huguenots fell to Coligny but the
titular leadership devolved to Conde's nephew, the fifteen year old Henry of Navarre.

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FARSETMORE 1567
O'NEILS verse O'DONNELLS
During the reigu of Queen Elizabeth I, England vied for power in Ireland against Shane
O'Neil, who claimed to be the King of Ulster, and the Scottish O'Donnells. Elizabeth
desired O'Neil to submit to her rnle in order for her to dominate Ireland. O'Neil required
the support of Elizabeth to defeat the O'Donnells so that he could become rnler of
Ireland. In an attempt to win over O'Neil, Elizabeth invited him to London, but O'Neil
took her aid and money and remained his own man. Elizabeth at first would not tolerate
any Scots in Ireland and so attacked them in Antrim between 1551 - 1557. 1hls pressure
on the Scots allowed O'Neil's power to grow in Ulster. Alarmed, Elizabeth then
supported the Scots, in order to prevent O'Neil gaining the upper hand and upsetting the
balance of power in Ireland.
Shane O'Neil began his attack on the Scots in tjie Autumn of 1564. He raided then
attacked the McDonnell's in force and utterly defeated them near Ballycastle. This defeat
did not banish the Scots from the North of Ireland. It did, however, allow Shane to
expand his army to become the largest military force in Ireland by the unprecedented act
of anning the common folk, normally too poor to bear arms.
The Strnggle had now become a two way battle. Elizabeth re-inforced her English
garrison and ai~ed the weakened Scots against Shane O'Neil's Ulster Irish and Scottish
mercenaries. The English viceroy, Sir Henry Sidney, supported the O'Donnell's and with
the Irish from the pale, invaded O'Neil's heartland of Tyrone in 1566. Though he failed to
pin Shane down in battle, he did re-instate Calvagh O'Donnell to his old Lordship. Shane
avoided Sir Henry's main force and attacked the garrison at Derry, which was a pyretic
victory for Shane as most of his Scottish mercenaries returned to Scotland after Derry.
Calvagh was succeeded by Hugh O'Donnell - Shane's sister's son who had fled Ireland
when Shane took power. In the spring of 1567 Hugh O'Donnell attacked Shane's
territory in Strabane. Shane mustered a large force and marched westward to punish the
O'Donnell's of Tirconnell. He arrived at the great ford of the Swilly below Ardingary
before Hugh O'Donnell could muster his forces.
ARMIES
O'DONNELLS SCOTS IRISH
SHANE'S ULSTER IRISH
500 Horse 2000 Mercenary Foot.
1000 Horse 500 Mercenary Foot, 2500 Foot.
CinCBd(0)+2SubGen.bd(O)&L(I)
CinC-Ln(F);IOLh(0);5Bd(O); 1OWb(I);15Sk(I).
5Lh(0);20 Bd(O)
Figure Scale 1 Element = I OOmen
DEPLOYMENT
Place Shane's camp and force first. O'Donnells move first.
The river must be worst case for crossing under the rules.
VICTORY CONDITIONS
Shane must destroy 20 Elements to Rout 0 'Donnell's force and O'Do1mell must destroy
I 0 Elements to cause Shane to be Broken and 20 Elements win.
TI1e loss of Shane's camp equals 2 Elements.
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HISTORICAL OUTCOME
Hugh O'Donnell was warned of Shane's attack. But as he only had as few as 500 men,
his only hope was to delay Shane as he crossed the shallow waters of the Swilly. So
Hugh sent his cavalry to attack Shane's force as it crossed the Swilly and retreated with
his infantry into a safe position amongst bogs north of Aghanundhin hill.

The action at the crossing succeeded in delaying Shane's advance until the afternoon so,
once across the Swilly, he set up camp. Unknown to Shane, Hugh O'Donnell had sent for
his mercenaries. Soon Hugh's original force of Tirconnell men were supported by the
three septs of galloglas of Clan Swiney. Shane may not have been aware of Hugh's
gathering force, or may have preferred the ground he occupied, for he deployed his own
line as Hugh's, now united, army approached. The two forces made no attempt at
maneuver, but plunged straight into each other with each side's cavalry and foot fighting
its opposite number. The battle was a medieval melee, but though Hugh's force was
outnumbered its quality soon won through, for it consisted entirely of mercenaries.
Shane's force, largely made up of armed commoners, broke and fled back towards the
Swilly, but the Swilly is tidal and now, in the late afternoon, was impassable. Much of
Shane's force died at the Swilly but Shane escaped. He was to die shortly after in a brawl
with Scottish soldiers in Cushendun Co. Antrim. whilst trying to gain the Antrim Scots'
support against the O'Donnells.
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MONCONTOUR 3rd OCTOBER 1569

FRENCH WARS OF RELIGION
The Huguenot defeat at Jamac, allowed the Catholic army to cut the supply of troops
from the south of France. Fortunately, by then the Huguenot re-inforcements were
coming from the North, with 6000 Reiters, 4000 Landsknechts and 2000 Huguenots,
marching from the Rhine, commanded by Duke Wolfgang of Zweibrucken. These reinforcements arrived around the end of May, having foiled three attempts by the
Royalists to stop them and after storming La Charite on the upper Loire. In June
Wolfgang linked up with Coligny at Chaluz, near Limoges, but died of a seizure and his
Second in Command, Wolfrad of Mansfeld, took his place. The Royalists had also
received re-inforcements, including the Dukes of Aumale and Nemours, but morale was
low and so many of the minor nobility deserted their commander Tavannes, he was
unable resume the offensive until more troops from Italy and the Netherlands had
anived. In fact, had the Huguenots attacked during this period the Royalist army would
have fallen apart. Fortunately for the Royalists, Coiigny too had problems with his army,
most of the Huguenot cavalry were the Noblesse from the west who were reluctant to
travel for from their lands. Also the army favoured reducing the fortress of Poitiers,
which occupied the Protestant army for six weeks. In September, in order to relieve
Poitiers, Tavannes advanced on the Huguenot supply base at Chatelherault, forcing the
Huguenots to retire from Poitiers and both armies now manoeuvred to gain an
advantage. Coligny finally settled on the fortified town of Moncontour, but Tavannes
turned his flank by marching along the River Dive through Grimandiere. Coligny
realising his danger and tried to withdraw to Ervault, behind the river Thoue, but he was
to slow and his column was intercepted by the Royalists.
ARMIES
FRENCH HUGUENOT

FRENCH ROYALIST

6000 Mounted 12000 Foot l 5Light Guns

A)Coligny CinC Ln(S}+4Ln(S);8Pi(I)
B)Gendarmes 3Ln(S}+Reiters 6 Pi(I)
C)3Ln(F}+6Pi(I}+2Sh(I)8Pk(O), 16Sh(I)
D)Nassau Ally-Gen.Ln(S}+ lOPi(I)
E)3Ln(S), lOPi(I)
F)3 Ln(S ), 8Sh(I}+ 22Pk(0 ), l 2Pk(I),3 7Sh(I)
G)4 Ln(S),
H)5SK(O);nl5Sk(O);J)3Art(I)

7000 Mounted 16000 Foot 12 Guns.

l)Monpensier Sub.Gen Ln(0}+5Ln(0),5Pi(n
2)5 Italian Ln(O); 5 French Ln(F); 5Lh(I)
3)Italian 8Pk(0),6Sh(I); Swiss 12Pk(S),
3Sh(n;Frenchl2Pk(I),38Sh(I)
4)5Ln(O);
5)2Art(I)
6)Anjou, CinC,Ln(O}+ 15Ln(O)
7)5Ln(O); 8)10Ln(F); 9)10Ln(F)
IO)Swiss 3Sh(I); 12Pk(S);
French 12Sh(I),28Pk(I)

Figure Scale 1 Element = 100 men

DEPLOYMENT.
Position the Huguenots first, Royalists move first Tue Grange is a BUA.
You may start as the armies initially deployed, or as the battle started with
Nassau+ 1OPi(I) with Coligny.
VICTORY CONDITIONS
111e loss of a third of a command will cause it to be broken. 2/3rds of the army lost will
cause rout.
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HISTORICAL OUTCOME
Coligny turned his army to face the Royalist attack, which was slow to materialise. So
Coligny occupied the Grange between the two armies and requested Louis of Nassau to
send over additional reiters to his flank. Louis brought them over personally leaving the
main battle leaderless. Montpensier, delaying until Anjou's main battle had started to
advance, cleared the Huguenot skirmishers away from the Grange and repulsed a
Counter attack by Coligny's first line of cavahy. Montpensier needed re-inforcing on
engaging Coligny's second line and was utterly broken by Coligny's third line of Reiters.
Coligny was wounded at this point and the Huguenot attack stalled. On the opposite
flank Henry of Anjou had charged the Huguenot horse but had been repelled and the
Huguenot cavahy found itself facing Swiss pike, which it failed to break. At this the
Huguenot cavahy had had enough and decided to withdraw, leaving its infantry to be
slaughtered, particular the landscknecks who begged for mercy to no avail from the
Swiss.
TI1e defeat at Moncontour was not followed up by the Royalists and Tavannes fell from
favour. Peace was signed at St. Germain on 8th August 1570.

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ANEGAWA 1570
THE AGE OF WAR
Oda NobWlaga in the ten years that followed the battle of Okehazama had grown to
prominence as a statesman and general Having secured an alliance with Tokugawa
Leyasu, NobWlaga effectively controlled the Tokaido coastal road to the Capital Kyoto.
This position put him in favour with the Emperor Ogimachi and this influence allowed
NobWlaga to expand against Mino province, controlled by Yoshitatsu's son Tatsuoki. By
1565 NobWlaga had taken Mino province and moved his capital to the fortress of Saito
renaming it Gifu. Oda's expansion had brought him into to conflict with Asai-Nagamasa,
who also had desires on Saito Tokaido's lands and had already been at war with Tokaido.
Asi-Nagamasa had expected to take half of Saito's domain but was halted by NobWlaga's
success. Although NobWlaga avoided war with Nagamasa through diplomacy, in 1568
NobWlaga installed the new ShogWl Yoshiaki, in Kyoto, by force. Asakura Yoshikaga of
the Echizen province, refused to obey the new ShogWl and NobWlaga, splitting his army,
marched against Asakura's main fortress at Ichijo-ga-tani, leaving the rest of his forces to
besiege Kanagaski. Nobunaga having arrived at Ichijo-ga-tani foWld he had fallen into a
trap, Asai-Nagamasa had formed alliance with Yoshikaga against him and he was now
trapped between their two armies.
ARMIES
ASAI NAGAMASA
ODA NOBUNAGA
I.Asai Nagamasa CinC. Ln(F)
A)Oda Nobllilaga. CinC Ln(F)
10000 men
23000 men.
8Ln(F);20Bd( 0);1 OBd(F);
13Ln(F);35Bd(0);20Bd(F);
10Sh(0);2Bw(I).
20Sh(0);10Bw(I).
2.Asakura Sub-Gen. Ln(F)
B)Toyotomi Hideyoshi Sub-Gen.Ln(F)
5000 men
5000men
5Ln(F);8Bd(0);7Bd(F);6Sh(O)
4Ln(I); 10Bd(I);5Bd(F);4Sh(I);2Bw(I)
3.Yoshikage Sub-Gen Ln(F)
C)Tokugawa Leyasu Sub-Gen. Ln(F)
5000 men
5000men
4Ln(L);l0Bd(0);5Bd(F);5Sh(0);1Bw(I)
4Ln(F);10Bd(0);5Bd(F);3Sh(0);3Bw(I)
Figure Scale 1 Element = 200men

DEPLOYMENT
Place Nagamasa forces first and move first. The Anegawa river is classed as paltry as it
conferred no advantage and both sides fought in it as opposed to using it as an obstacle.
VICTORY CONDITIONS
For both sides, if a third of a command is lost it is beaten. If the aimy loses two thirds of
its total strength it is broken

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HISTORICAL OUTCOME
Asai Nagamasa moved rapidly to cut Nobunaga off from his base at Kyoto and Gifu but
failed to prevent Nobunaga from making it back to Kyoto before the trap could be
closed. Nobunaga having re-organised his army marched on Asai Nagamasa's castle of
Odani. Halting at the Anegawa river, to await re-inforcements from Leyasu, he was
confronted by the combined armies of Asakura and Nagamasa.

Oda Nobunaga intended to fight Asai Nagamasa personally and during the night rearranged his army to be on the same flank as his adversary. It was light at 4am in the
morning and both sides advance into the Anegawa river to start the battle. Nobunaga
outnumbered Nagamasa but his forces contained a contingent of samurai from lands
formally owned by Nagamasa and so he placed these men in the centre of his army under
his most trusted commander Hideyoshi and used his superior numbers to give his
formations greater depth to face the enemy charges. The battle split into two actions,
with Leyasu fighting Asakura and Yoshikage and Nobunaga fighting Nagamsa further
down stream. Leyasu flanked Asakura forcing them to withdraw back across the
Anegawa. Asakura to cover his retreat sent forward a retainer Makara Jurozaemon
Naotaka to challenge the enemy to single combat. He was killed by four brothers of
Mikawa province but Asakura gained time to withdraw in good order. Nobunaga's forces
had been driven back at this time but Leyasu turned and attacked Nagamasa in the right
flank, and Nobunaga threw his reserve onto his left flank routing Nagamasa's forces.

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MIKATA-GA-HARA 1572
THE AGE OF WAR
Takeda Shingen having concluded his struggle against Uesugi Kens~ after the fifth
and final battle of Kawanajima, was to now find himself threatened by the rising power
of Oda Nobunaga. Shingen a Buddhist monk vowed to revenge Nobunaga's destruction
of the warrior monks at Mount Heil, that had opposed him, and to replace Nobunaga as
the warlord of Kyoto. To this aim Shingen set about forming alliances to protect his
borders and rather than confront Nobunaga head on, he set his sights on Nobunaga's ally
Tokugawa Leyasu. Leyasu had recently moved his headquarters to Hamamatsu. Shingen
struck first. Shingen's first objective in Tokugawa territory was the castle of Futamata
which by a torturous route, he attacked from the north. To cover this attack he sent
Yamagata Masakage and 5000 men east into Mikawa, capturing the important castle of
Yoshida and cutting any aid to Tokugawa from the west. Leyasu had received
reinforcements from Nobunaga but was still outnumbered three to one. Though
Nobunaga advised Leyasu to avoid Shingen's army, Leyasu was determined to fight him
in the open and led his army out as Shingen army approached Hamamatsu Castle.

ARMIES
TOKUGAWA LEYASU

TAKEDA SHINGEN
Takeda Shingen CinC Ln(F)
15000 men
l lLn(F); 15Bd(O); 15Sh(0);30Bd(F);4Bw(n
Oyamada Nobushige Sub-Gen Ln(F)
4000 men.5Ln(F);5Bd(0);5Bd(F);5Sh(O)
Naito Masatoyo Sub-Gen Ln(F)
4000 men 5Ln(F);5Bd(0);5Bd(F);5Sh(O)
Takeda Katsuyori. Sub-Gen Ln(F)
4000 men 5Ln(F);5Bd(0);5Bd(F);5Sh(O)
Baba Nobuharu. Sub-Gen Ln(F)
4000 men 5Ln(F);5Bd(0);5Bd(F);5Sh(O)

Tokugawa Leyasu CinC Ln(F)

4000 men
5Ln(F);4Bd(0);4Sh(0);4Bd(F);3Bw(n
Mikawa Generals Sub-General Ln(F)
3000men 2Ln(F);3Bd(0);6Bd(F);3Sh(O)
Oda Generals Sub-Gen Ln(F)
3000men 2Ln(F);3Bd(0);6Bd(F);3Sh(O)
Saka Tadatsugu Sub-Gen Ln(F)
lOOOmen 1Ln(F);2Bd(0);2Bd(F)

Figure Scale 1 Element = 200men

DEPLOYMENT
Place the Tokugawa first; Takeda move first.

VICTORY CONDITIONS
The loss of a third of a command causes it to be broken, two thirds of the army lost,
leads to defeat.

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IAKEDA
TAKEDA SHINGEN

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HISTORICAL OUTCOME
Shingen deployed his army in a Fish Scales formation which suggests a series of
overlapping lines as his vanguard was four commands deep. Leyasu's generals on seeing
the Takeda host again urged Leyasu to withdraw into the castle but Leyasu was
detennined to face Shingen head on and occupied the plain of Mikata-Ga-Hara before
the defile that led to Hamamatsu castle. At about 4 o'clock with a light snow falling
Tokugawa opened fire on the advancing Takeda samurai. The initial charge of the
Takeda was held by the Tokugawa left and centre but much of the Oda contingent
withdrew leaving Saka Tadatsugu to hold the flank. Shingen then withdrew his leading
commands to replace them with fresh troops and on seeing the Tokugawa line fall back
ordered a general advance.

Leyasu was for fighting on but driven back in the melee towards the castle. At the castle
Leyasu ordered the gates to remain open and a huge brazier lit to guide his troops back.
The Takeda troops seeing this suspected a trap and held off stonning the castle. Leyasu
then ordered a night attack on the encamped Takeda troops and led the pursuing Takeda
troops across a ravine I OOft deep killing a large number. Shingen realised Leyasu was
not a man to give in and withdrew rather than conduct a winter siege.

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NAGASHINO 29th June 1575

THE AGE OF WAR
Early in 1573 Takeda Shingen returned to Tokagawa territory, after his victorious but
unsuccessful battle ofMikata-Ga-Hara the previous year. Invading Mikawa province he
laid siege to Noda Castle. The Tokagawa defenders decided to get rid of all the sake in
the castle and when Shingen approached the ramparts, to listen to a samurai playing the
flute, he was shot dead by a more sober and vigilant guard. The war with Oda Nobunaga
now fell on Shingen's son Takeda Katsuyori. Shingen's death was kept quiet for two
years, but once it was announced Okudaire Sadamasa reverted back to the Tokugawa
clan and was placed in command of the important fortress of Nagashino. This was
Leyasu's bait for Katsuyori to swallow. Katsuyori had his own plan. He bribed Oga
Yashiro to open the gates of Okazaki castle and planned the fall ofMikawa province on
this treachery. But as he approached Nagashino his plan was discovered. Katsuyori now
instead of avoiding the trap as he planned, he march straight into it and besieged
Nagashino. Oda and Leyasu marched on the besieging Takeda army helped by the self
sacrifice ofTorii Suneemon, who slipped through the Takeda army to Oda and returning
to Nagashino was captured. Torii agreed to tell the defenders that Oda was not coming
but instead shouted "Hold fast help will soon be at hand ! " - He was crucified on the
spot.
ARMIES
TAKEDA
ODAffOKUGAWA
Takeda Katsuyori Cine Ln(F)
Oda Nagashino CinC Ln(F)
25000 men
9000men
10Ln(F);10Bd(0)20Bd(F)12Sh(O);l3Bw(I) 10Ln(F);8Bd(0);8Bd(F);3Bw(I)
Baba Nabuharu Sub-Gen Ln(F)
Layasu Tokagawa Sub-Gen Ln(F)
8000 men
2000 men 3Ln(F); 3Bd(O)
Naito Masatoyo Sub-Gen Ln(F)
3Ln(F);4Bd(0);4Sh(0);7Bd(F);3Bw(I)
2000 men 3Ln(F);3Bd(O)
Toyotomi Hideyoshi Sub-Gen Ln(F)
Yamagata Masakage Sub.Gen. Ln(F)
5000 men
2000 men 3Ln(F); 3Bd(O)
2Ln(F) 3Bd(0);2Sh(0);4Bd(F);2Bw(I)
20 Elements of Palisade FO.
Figure Scale 1 figure = 1OOmen

DEPLOYMENT
Place the Takugawa army first. Takeda move first. All hills are gentle unless marked
otherwise. Toyokawa River is tricky but the stream is paltry.
Note it may be fun to try weather rules as rain would make a difference.
VICTORY CONDITIONS
TI1e loss of a third of a command causes it to be Broken, the loss of two thirds of the
army causes defeat.

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~TAKEDA

KATSU'rffiI

67 irches

HISTORICAL OUTCOME
Katsuyori's veteran generals called for retreat or at least for storming Nagashino and
defending it against Nobunaga. His younger generals like Atobe Oi-no-suke called for an
immediate attack which Katsuyori agreed with. Oda Nobunaga even though he
outnumbered the Takeda forces by two to one knew the power of the Takeda mounted
Samura~ having fought them before. Nobunaga intended taking every precaution against
them. He started by launching a night attack on the Takeda camp, under SakaiTadatsugu with 3000 men and managing to kill Takeda Nobuzane, Katsuyori's uncle in
the attack Nobunaga then drew his army up across the defile between Mount Gambo
and the river Toyokawa. Nobunaga's army though bigger, had far fewer Samurai and
was better suited for defense. Katsuyori knew this and of the predominance of arquebus
in the Tokagawa army, but would the Tokagawa Ashigaru stand ? and if the weather
remained wet as it had been, the arquebuses would be useless.
N obunaga had placed his army about a mile from the Castle, but Katsuyori could not see
his enemy clearly as the ground was quite hilly. Nobunaga placed a small force as bait, to
draw the Takeda Samurai onto his prepared positions, and as planned the Takeda
charged at the enemy they could see, straight into the massed Arquebus troops
positioned behind pali~ades. Baba Nabuhara captured a small knoll on the end of
Nobunagas line, but was halted by arquebus fire and flanked by Hideyoshi. Katsuyori
could not see the disaster unfolding and launched his main battle only to be stopped and
then defeated like the others in tum.

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COUTRAS 20th October 1587

FRENCH WARS OF RELIGION
The defeat at Moncontour should have been the end of the Huguenot cause, but the
Royalists squandered their victory and peace was not finally signed until August 1570 at
St. Germain. Tavannes having fallen from royal favour had resigned in disgust. War was
again to flair up in 1572, following the St. Bartholomew's massacre of Huguenots,
including the old admiral Coligny. Peace was re-established without a major battle but
the cause of war remained.
In 1586 Henry of Anjou was crowned Henry III. The Guise and the Catholic league
forced this weak king to sign the Treaty of Nemours, withdrawing all tolerance of
Protestants. Henry of Navarre, now the head of the Huguenot faction, knew that the
Catholic league with the resources of the crown intended ending the Huguenot problem
in France once and for all. Henry III in an attempt to show his authority launched his
own expedition under Ann, Duke of Joyeuse, into the south of France, contrary to the
League's wishes. The expedition consisted of mainly courtiers and Nobility unused to the
rigors of war. Henry IIrs force had penetrated into Angoumois and Poitou by September
and encountered the Huguenot army. Joyeuse ordered Marshal Matignon, at Bordeaux,
to join him with his 4000 men. Henry of Navarre and Conde (the son of the famous
Huguenot general Conde) gathering what troops they could and marched south from
Charente in order to cross the river Dronne at Coutras, which took him between the
converging Royalist armies. Henry reached Courtras in time to repel Joyeuse's advanced
scouts and crossed the river Dronne taking up a good defensive position, with his left
covered by the Pallard Marsh and his right by a large enclosure known as "the Warren".

Henry of Navarre sent out a strong reconnaissance force to slow the Royalist advance,
Joyeuse had hoped to surprise Henry with a night march, gave him plenty of warning and
in the morning Joyeuse could not deploy for battle before 9.00am, having been marching
since midnight.
ARMIES
FRENCH HUGUENOT
1700 Mounted 3800 Foot
A)Henry CinC Pi(S),3Pi(S),4Sh(O)
B)Conde Ally.Gen Pi(S),3Pi(S),4Sh(O)
C)Soissons 3Ln(F)
D)Turenne 8Lh(I)
E)Enfants Perdus 10Sh(O)or20Sk(S)
F)7 Foot Regts. 20Sh(O)or40Sk(S)
G)IO Guns 2Art(O)

FRENCH ROYALIST
3000 Mounted 5000 Foot
l)Joyeuse CinC Ln(0)+12Ln(O)
2)Montigny10Ln(0),4Lh(I)
3)Picardie & Tiercellin Foot
1OPk(I), 18 Sh(I), lArt(I)
4 )Cluseau & Verduisant Foot
5Pk(I),8Sh(I),4Pi(I).

Figure Scale 1 Element = 100 Men.

DEPLOYMENT
Place the Royalists first and move first. Count the Warren as terrain type E and Pallard
Marsh as M. Coutras is an undefended BUA The river can only be crossed at the ford.

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VICTORY CONDITIONS
The Royalists must destroy 7 Elements of Henry's Command and 13 Elements of Conde's
command to count them broken; 30 Elements to rout the Huguenots .The Huguenots
must destroy 27 Elements to cause Broken ;40 Elements to rout the Royalist army.

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HISTORICAL OUTCOME
Henry of Navarre's position was good in a defensive way, in that both flanks were
covered by natural obstacles. It was also ideal as his infantry was of a poorer quality and
he had fewer numbers than the Royalists. Henry could protect his infantry as well as
making them useful. The only draw back to Henry's position was if he was defeated, it
was a death trap. Joyeuse's deployment was cramped by the Bois de la Gelleterie in his
rear and the Pollard Marsh on his right. Joyeuse having deployed his infantry, facing the
Warren, they quickly came under effective artillery fire, which provoked a general
advance by his left flank against the enemy in he Warren. The Royalist foot made little
impact on the Huguenot foot in the Warren, who were defended by a ditch and in cover.
Mercurio's Royalist cavalry, advancing to cover the flank of the infantry, charged the
Huguenot light horse and drove them back, pursuing them as far as Coutras and
effectively removing themselves from Joyeuse's control. Joyeuse, with his left committed
and his right entangled in the Pollard marsh, charged the Huguenot centre with his 1200
Gendarmes, deployed in the thin line of the "en Haye" formation. Henry ordered his
arquebus infantry, interspersed between his Reiter columns, to fire at 20 paces which
tore the Royalist charge apart. Henry and Conde's counter charge, utterly smashed the
now disordered gendarmes of Joyeuse. With the centre of the Royalist anny destroyed
and Joyeuse was killed trying to surrender. TI1e Royalist army fled.

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SHIZUGATAKE 1583
THE AGE OF WAR
Oda Nobunaga had many generals under him who though loyal, had old scores to settle
with their enforced overlord. Akechi Mitsuhide was one of these generals. He blamed
Nobunaga for getting his mother humiliated and killed, by ordering Hatano Hideharu to
be crucified. Hideharu had been holding Mitsuhides mother hostage, against his death
after he had surrendered Y agami Castle. Mitsuhide gained his revenge when fortune
placed himself with a large army near Nobunaga who was in a temple at Honno-ji with
just a small body ofretainers. Mitsuhide struck when most ofNobunaga's other generals
were committed elsewhere, but Toyotomi Hideyoshi quickly returned to defeat
Mitsuhide at Yamazaki between Kyoto and Osaka. The Battle of Yamazaki placed
Hideyoshi in a commanding position when it came to the power struggle that now
followed Nobunagas death. The three opposing factions where, Oda Nobutaka;
Takigawa Kazumasu and Shibata Katsuie. The saving factor for Hideyoshi was that none
of his rivals would act in concert, so he was able to attack and subdue Nobutaka quickly.
The fall of Nobutaka consolidated Takigawa and Shibata against Hideyoshi. With
Shibata advancing on Hideyoshi's fortress in Omi. Hideyoshi forestalled the attack and
trapped Takigawa in Kameyama, forcing his surrender. Shibata advancing from Echizen
towards Kyoto was Hideyoshis final threat and he set about defending the two possible
routes around lake Yogo. As the Spring wore on Oda Nobutaka anticipating the arrival
of Shibata rebelled. Hideyoshi besieged N obutaka in his castle of Ogaki.
ARMIES
KATO HIDEYOSID
14000 men
A. Hideyoshi + 4000men CinC. Ln(F)

MORIMASA SAKUMA
15000 men

1OLn(F);10Bd(0),20Bd(F),8Sh(0),2Bw(I).
B. Kato Kiyomasa+4000 men Sub-Gen Bd(O)
20Bd(O), 15Bd(F),8Sh(0),2Bw(I).
C. Sub-Gen Ln(F)+4000men
1OLn(F), I OBd(O), 15Bd(F),8Sh(0),2Bw(I)

1. Sakuma CinC,Bd(O)+ 1OBd(O)

2. 8Bd(O), 15Bd(F), 11Sh(0),6Bw(I),
3. Sub-Gen.Bd(O). lOLn(F)
1OBd(O),l5Bd(F), 10Sh(0),5Bw(I)
4. Sub-Gen Bd(O). lOLn(F)
10Bd(0),15Bd(F),10Sh(0),5Bw(I)

Figure Scale 1 Element = 100 men

DEPLOYMENT
Place Sakuma first, Hideyoshi moves first. Lake Biwa is impassable. Mount Shizugatake
is Difficult. The woods are Difficult.
VICTORY CONDITIONS
One third of a command destroyed breaks the command. Two thirds of the army
destroyed equals defeat.

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HISTORICAL OUTCOME
Nobutaka by rebelling had not placed Hideyoshi at any great disadvantage and in fact
had brought Hideyoshi's army to where it needed to be. Shibata Katsuie had sent his
nephew, Sakuma Morimasa to capture the frontier forts and Sakuma had in fact just
captured Iwasakiyama and had marched on to besiege Shizugatake. Shibata's orders had
been very precise "Do not underestimate Monkey-Face. He's a fellow to whom
carelessness is unknown. If you succeed in capturing Oiwa withdraw your troops into
it.". Sakuma was not to press to far ahead as Hideyoshi's army was only 50 miles away
at Ogaki. But Sakuma felt no threat as it would take Hideyoshi at least three days for his
army of 20000 men to arrive and so he threw loose siege lines around Shizugatake. But
Hideyoshi was in fact at Shizugatake, having mounted 12000 men in a desperate ride to
prevent the fall of the castle. Sakuma deployed his forces across the defile between Lake
Biwa and the Shizugatake Mountain. Hideyoshi having received re-inforcements from
the survivors of Iwasakiyama, who had retreated to Tagami, this now made the forces
nearly equal in numbers. Hideyoshi's vanguard led by a young 'Wakamusha' crashed into
Sakuma's left battle and Kato Kiyomasa personally killed Sakuma's general. Sakuma's
anny was subjected to a furious assault all along its line, but the fiercest fighting took
place on Sakuma's left which quickly collapsed. Sakuma's army streamed back to the
gates ofKita-no-sho where Shibata Katsuie commanded. Besieged by Hideyosh.i Shibata
committed hari-ki1i as the castle blazed arow1d him.

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ARQUES 21st September 1589

FRENCH WAR OF RELIGION
The Catholic League under the Guise brothers had seized power by entering Paris in
May 1589, forcing Henry III to sign another edict against the Huguenots and giving
power to the Catholic league, their cause now bolstered by the impending invasion of
Protestant England by the Spanish. The failure of the Admarda prompted Henry III to
exact his revenge on the Catholic League, by having the Guise Brothers murdered in an
attempt to regain power. But the Catholic league was still very strong and Henry III had
to seek the protection of his Huguenot brother Henry of Navarre. For this protection
Henry of Navarre gained the right to succession to the throne from the childless Henry
III, who died shortly afterwards by the "hand of a Catholic fanatic". France now had a
Protestant King and many of the Catholic nobility sided with him, much to the disgust of
the Huguenots. But the Duke ofMayenne a brother of the murdered Guise, with an army
three times that of Heru.Ys, was closing fast and after an unsuccessful siege of Paris
Henry retreated towards Dieppe. Mayenne intended to trap Henry against the coast and
crush liim. He arrived at Dieppe on the 13th September but found Henry had fortified the
town. Mayenne was reluctant to storm the defenses and so after 3 days of offering battle
in the open he moved off intending to attempt the Arques defile.
ARMIES
FRENCH ROYALIST
FRENCH CATHOLIC
1000 Mounted 4800 Foot
4000 Mounted 20000 Foot
1) Duke ofMayenne +1000 Gendarmes
A) Henry CinC +800 Pistoleers
CinC Ln(S) + 10 Ln(O)
CinCLn(S) + 8 Pi(S)
B) 600 Swiss Foot :4Pk(S),2Sh(O)
2)Aumale+3000 Reiters:Sub-Gen+30 Pi(O)
C) 600 Landsknechts: 4Pk(0),2Sh(I)
3) 3500 Landsknechts:25Pk(0),10Sh(I)
D) 1200 French Arquebusiers : 12Sh(O) 4) 9000 French Infantry: 30Pk(I),60Sh(I)
5) 500 Landsknechts + 1000 French Foot
E) 3 Guns+ 600 French Foot
4Pk(0),2Sh(O) + 5Pk(I),5Sh(I).
1 Art(0),6Sh(I).
F) 600 Swiss Guard :4Pk(S),2Sh(O)
G)1200 French Arquebusier: 12Sh(O)
F) 200 Pistoleers:2Pi(S)
H) Arques Castle. 3Art(O)
Figure Scale 1 Element = 1OOmen
DEPLOYMENT
Place the Royalists first, the Catholics move first. Count the Earthworks as a
Fortification. Count the Chapel and the Castle as a fortified BUA The River as
unfordable, The Forest and the Marsh as difficult going. The Catholic unit 5 may be
placed in ambush in the woods before the game
VICTORY CONDITIONS
111e Catholic's must destroy 21 Elements to cause Broken and 42 Elements to cause
routed
TI1e Royalists must destroy 1/3rd of a command to cause Broken and 2./3rds of the army
to cause rout.
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CATHOLIC

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HISTORICAL OUTCOME
Mayenne may have forced the Arques pass, before Henry could have transferred his army
from Dieppe to his pre-prepared defensive positions around the Chapel of St. Lazare and
Arques Castle, but having moved from Dieppe, Mayenne halted for three days at
Martineglise at the head of the Arques defile. Henry's position based on two redoubts
which blocked the defile between the Marshes of Bethune river and the Forest D'Arques.
The final defense being Arques Castle which had been modernised by Francis I and now
had mounted a1tillery.

On the morning of the 20th Mayenne advanced into the defile, sending his vanguard
under Aumale, Duke of Nemours. He also sent a regiment of Landsknechts, supported
by two regiments of French foot, through the Forest D'Arques, who calling to the
defenders of the first trench 'they would not fight their fellow countrymen' managed to
get close enough to charge the trench and drive the defenders back. The Royalists in the
first trench fled back and the Catholics captured the redoubt and the church. Henry
b1inging up his cavalry, managed to prevent the Catholic cavalry getting past the first
trench line, allowing the survivors to rally on the second trench. Henry was forced, by
sheer weight of numbers, to fall back on the second trench. The pursuing Catholic
cavahy were brought to a sharp halt at the second trench and an attempt to outflank it
through the marsh was thrown back. The Catholic cavalry, now halted, came under a
deadly bombardment from the castle Arques and fled back to past tbe first trench. Henry
counter-attacked with his entire force and quickly carried the first trench line. Meye1me
withdrew to Martineglise having not engaged the bulk of his infantry before conceding
defeat.
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IVRY 14th March 1590

FRENCH WARS of RELIGION
The victory for Henry at Arques did not smash the Catholic. army and even allowed the
Catholics to continue to threaten Deippe. Henry having received his re-inforcements
from Britain, marched on Paris but having failed to capture it, withdrew to Etampes.
During the Winter of 1589-90 Henry went on to captured much of Normandy. Mayenne,
having received reinforcements from the Spanish in the Netherlands, marched out to
confront Henry's army. The Royalists were besieging Dreux as Mayenne approached and
Henry, though outnumbered, positioned his army on the plain of St. Andre intending to
dispute the crossing of the river Eure. But Mayenne had already crossed before Henry
could stop him and the two armies were committed to battle.
ARMIES
FRENCH ROYALIST

CATHOLIC LEAGUE

8100 Foot 3600 Horse

10200 Foot 4400 Horse
1) Mayenne + 1OOO Gendarmes
A)King Henry + 1OOO Cuirassiers
CinC,Pi(S),10 Pi(S)
CinC,Ln(0),10 Ln(O)
B)3 French Regts. 3000 Foot. 15Pk(I); 15Sh(I).
2)400 Spanish mounted Arquebus LH(I)
3)Aumale400L/horse,4000 Walloon Foot
C)Royal Swiss 2Regts. 1000men;8Pk(S),2Sh(I)
S.GenLn(0),4Lh(I),10Pk(0),30Sh(I)
D)Schombergs 600 Reiters.Sub.GenPi(S),6Pi(I)
4)Egmont, 700Wallon Lance,
E)2 Regts French Foot 800men 4Pk(I),4Sh(O)
F)Biron Junior 500 Pistoleers.:Sub.Gen.Pi(S),5Pi(I) S.Gen,Ln(0),7 Ln(F).
G)800 Veteran musketeers; 8Sh(O)
5) 1000 Reiters, 10 Pi(I)
H) 400 Light Horse. 4LH(I)
6) 2000 French Foot, 6Pk(I),14Sh(I)
7) 1200 Swiss 9Pk(S),3Sh(I)
I) Artillery 15 Guns - 3Art(O)
J)Montpensier 500 Horse.Sub.Gen,Pi(S),5Pi(I)
8) Nemours,500 cheveaux leger,
K)400 landsknects,3Pk(O), lSh(I)
S.GenLn(0),5Pi(O),
9) 400 Argoulets, 4LH(I)
L)400 Swiss, 3Pk(S),1Sh(I)
M)400 French Arquebus, 4Sh(I)
10) 600 Landsknechts Foot, 4Pk(0),2Sh(I)
N)D'Aumont 400 L/Horse,S.Gen.Pi(S),4LH(I)
11) 1200 Swiss Foot, 9Pk(S),3Sh(I)
0)2 Regts French Foot 800men ;4PK(I),4Sh(I)
12) 1200 Swiss Foot, 9Pk(S),3Sh(I)
P)Biron Senior 200 Cav,
13) 10 Artillery, 2Art(O)
2Regts French Foot 800men
Sub.Gen,Pi(S).2PI(S),4PK(I),4Sh(O).

Figure Scale l Element = 100 men.

DEPLOYMENT
The Catholics are placed first and move first. St. Andre is a BUA
VICTORY CONDITIONS
Both sides must destroy 1/3rd of each command to cause it to be broken and 2/3rds of
the army total to cause rout.

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CATHOLIC
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HISTORICAL OUTCOME
Both armies deployed in a similar fashion, of cavahy units flanked by infantry formations.
Henry intended to turn the Catholics left flank with his double strength Division, which
he would lead himself Mayenne at the head of his Gendarmes appears to have been
poised for a head on attack on Henry's formation, whilst his longer line held Henry's
army in place. The battle started with the Royalist artillery doing severe damage to the
Wallon lancers. This bombardment soon opened a cavahy battle by both sides, with
D'Aumont carrying the Catholic right flank and Montpensier locked in combat with
Nemours. The Royalist centre was ripped open by the Waloon lancers and only stopped
by the Young Birons Pistoleers. But the real battle between the two commanders had
started. Mayenne had intended to flank Henry's formation, but both flank forces were
countered and driven back, disrupting Mayennes advance. Henry smashed into the stalled
Gendarmes ofMayenne and shattered them completely. On Henry's right the last threat
the Catholics could offer, Aumales horse, were broken by Marshal Birons small reserve.
The Catholic infantry, hardly engaged in the battle, seeing their cavahy abandon them,
now fled and only the Swiss and the French were allowed to surrender. Mayenne had the
bridge over the Eure destroyed to prevent the Royalist pursuing him, but this only
ensured the total destruction of his army.

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CLONTIBRET 26th May 1595

THE ULSTER WAR
The tripartite war of Shane O'Neil that had ended at Farsetmore in 1567, had effectively
reconciled the English and the Scots in Ireland. Only an English/Irish dimension remained
within the land.

Hugh O'Neil , the second Earl of Tyrone, had remained at the English court during the
reign of Shane. On Shane's death he became the ruler of the Gaelic Lordship of Tyrone.
Though O'Neil had received English support, including military aid and the training of his
army, he had no intention of being a puppet for the English. He was the King of tnster
and like Shane before him he was to be the only king of Ulster.
Elizabeth I eventually realised O'Neil would not submit to her rule and attempted to hold

him in Tyrone by building military out posts around Ulster. O'Neil had retaliated by
fighting a hit and run war around his border. In 1593 the ambush of an English force at
the Ford of Biscuits and the subsequent loss of Enniskillen, followed by an invasion of
Monaghan by Maguire of Fermanag, started the Ulster war. To maintain Monaghan,
which had been given English 'shire' status, was important in the process of settling
Ireland. In addition, the need to curb 0 1Neil1s threat to the English Pale compelled
Elizabeth to re-inforce her Irish garrison with troops from England and Brittany.
The force under Marshal Bagenal now had 1730 men, consisting of 6 troops of Horse
and 19 companies of foot. Armed in the modem way of calivers, musket and Pike,
Bagne! was to escort supplies to Monaghan, relieve the garrison and return to the Pale. It
was also to be a show of irresistible force to O'Neil Unfortunately, Bagenal's force was
under-officered, poorly disciplined and with many raw recruits. It had not had time to
organise and train, it even lacked sufficient ammunition to fight a prolonged engagement.
O'Neil had up to 3000 men to oppose this force, but its quality and equipment was
patchy. Around 600 foot were trained and uniformed in English style, relics from the
days of his loyalty to the crown, the rest were armed in the traditional Irish/Scottish way
including many with Longbows.
ARMIES

ENGLISH
1750 Foot & Horse
Cine Ln(F);8Lh(0);9Pk(O);
4Sh(O);l4Sh(I).
2 Baggage
Figure Scale; 1 Element = 50Men.

IRISH
3000 Foot & Horse
CinC+ lSubGen.Lh(O)
l 7Lh(O);l2Sh(I);l2Sk(O)
lOWb(O);lOSh(I);lOSk(I).

DEPLOYMENT
Place the English first, The Irish move first.

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VICTORY CONDITIONS
The Irish must destroyl2 Elements to cause Broken, 24 Elements to Rout the English.
The English must destroy l/3rd of a command to cause it to be Broken and 40 Elements
in total to cause rout. The English also must exit the board on the road to
Ballymacowen.

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HISTORICAL OUTCOME
The road from Newry to Monaghan runs westward to Ballymoyer through treacherous
bogs and an undrained overgrown country side. This confined Bagenal's force to
following the road. Bagenal marched in the traditional formation of a Van, Centre and
Rear battles and camped at Ballymoyer by the Owenduff stream Here O'Neil held a
parley with Bagnel. The next day, 26th May, Bagenal continued the march only to come
under attack from O'Neil as he approached Crossdall, four miles short of Monaghan.
O'Neil attacked the vanguard with a small force and manoeuvred to occupy a wood that
dominated the road. Captain Cuney commanding the vanguard lead forward an attack
and drove the Irish from the wood. At this O'Neil withdrew and Bagenal's Column
marched on to Monaghan to relieve the garrison. On the 27th the English marched back
towards Clontibret. But O'Neil had been re-inforced by Maguire and MacMahon and
now had the force to stop the English. As the English Column entered close and wooded
country it was attacked all along its length, most heavily in its rear. This running fight
continued until the column reached a defile under Crossaghy Hill and here O'Neil
determined to stop the English. For three hours the English attacked the Irish position,
soon running short of powder but managing to force the pass. The battle continued then,
as before, with the Irish skirmishing and sniping until nightfall. The following day the
Irish withdrew to block the Moyry Pass and the English reached Newry. Had O'Neil
continued the fight the English would have been routed but O'Neil's force had also run
short of powder. Though the English had achieved its objective of relieving the garrison
at Monaghan. O'Neil had also proved his point. The English could not move through
Ulster unmolested.

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THE YELLOW FORD 14th August 1598

THE ULSTER WAR
After the attack on the English at Clontibret in 1595, O'Neil re-armed and re-organised
his forces raising large bodies of Bonnaghts, who were in effect a national militia
(originally Bonnaghts were the Irish version of Galloglass). His army now armed and
trained in the most modem way, and what few expeditions the English did undertake
were roughly handled by O'Neil's forces, who relied on avoiding contact other than to
ambush the English columns.

In May 1597 Lord Burgh replaced Lord Russell who had adopted a policy of stay out of

illster. Lord Burgh was determined to act and on the 12th July with 3500 men he
attempted a raid into O'Neil's territory. He made it as far as the Blackwater ford and was
halted by O'Neil's forces. Unable to advance, Burgh rebuilt the fort at Blackwater,
destroyed by O'Neil in 1595. But for Burgh this was his last act as he was to die of fever.
Burgh had pinned all his hopes on this fort as a base of operations into Ulster. In fact he
had left a position that was impossible to maintain if attacked and with a garrison that
had to be defended. O'Neil made one attempt to storm the fort but took casualties and
withdrew to blockade it instead. The new English military commander of Ireland Earl of
Osmond would have given up the position, but to do so would loose face, so a truce was
arranged with O'Neil instead. Earl Osmond knew that something had to be done but it
was only after Sir Bagenal, veteran of Clontibret, with 1500 new troops offered to lead
the relief force did Osmond agree to the venture. Bagenal's force of 3000 foot and 300
horse, though large by Irish standards, was mainly of poor quality and was further
hampered by 4 pieces of light artillery. Baganel marched from Newry and arrived at the
ruins of Armagh on the 13th August 1598. He passed through Armagh and encamped on
the right bank of the river Callan, four and a half miles from the Blackwater fort.
ARMIES
ENGLISH
300 Horse 4000 Foot
CinC+l Sub.Gen. Ln(F)
3 Lh(0);5Sh(0);10Pk(O);l7Sh(I);8Pk(I)
I Art(0);4 Baggage

IRISH
5000 Foot & Horse
CinC+2Sub.Gen Lh(O)
6 Lh(0);10Sk(S);20Sh(I);
14Wb(O).

Figure Scale 1 Element = I OOmen.

DEPLOYMENT.
Deploy the English first and all the Irish in ambush. The English move first.
Place additional English troops in Blackwater Fort. being;
!Sub.Gen Bd(O);l Pk(0);2Sh(0);1Art(O).
VICTORY CONDITIONS:
Each side must inflict l/3rd losses on a command to cause Broken. The Irish must
destroy 26 Elements of English to win. The English must destroy 30 Elements to win.
TI1e English also win if they get their Artillery and Baggage through to Blackwater fort,
or if the Fort is destroyed, the English get their force off the battlefield back to Armagh.

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100 inches

HISTORICAL OUTCOME
Bagenal marched his force in battle order, in a column of regiments with horse and
baggage between the regiments. Knowing the road to be ambushed he moved west of
the river Callan across the open ground. The battle started at 8.30am half a mile from the
English camp as the vanguard marched between a wood and a bog. The attacks
continued and the English unable to get to grips with the Irish in cover pressed on. TI1e
centre of the English column was slowed by the progress of the guns and baggage and
soon the vanguard was separated from the column. Percy in command of the first
regiment of the vanguard pressed ahead under constant skirmishing and made it to the
third hill - where the majority of the Irish forces lay in ambush. At this point with the
English vanguard on the third hill, the main battle between the first and second hill and
the rear still before the first hill, Bagenal ordered the vanguard to retire on the centre.
This was the beginning of the end for the English. The vanguard was routed as it tried to
cross the yellow ford. Bagenal was killed trying to relieve the vanguard and the whole
force fell into retreat back to Atmagh. Shortly after this the Blackwater Fort was
abandoned.

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MOYRY PASS Sth October 1600

THE ULSTER WAR
The defeat at the Yellow ford, forced the English to abandon Armagh and retreat to
Newry. 0 Neil had entirely expelled the English from Tyrone. This was the basis of his
strategy, simply to prevent the English entering illster. In 1599 the English, under Lord
Mountjoy, again started operations against O'Neil. The operations centred around the
Moyry Pass, a natural defile in difficult country that lead straight from Dundalk, in the
English Pale, to the English outpost at Newry. In May that year Mountjoy had moved
through the pass to distract O'Neil from landings at Derry. In doing so Mountjoy had to
return to aid a convoy under attack in the pass, under captain Blayney, at four mile
water. The Irish, in order to avoid this English pincer movement, manoeuvred across
terrain impassable to the English, to attack the rear of Blayney's column. In torrential rain
both sides were forced to fight hand to hand.
After this expedition Mountjoy continued to have difficulty in supporting Newry. In
September he assembled a force of 3000 foot and 300 horse to take the Moyry Pass once
and for all. The English left Dundalk on the 20th September and set up camp at
Faughart, half a mile from the entrance to the pass. The Irish immediately barricaded the
pass and attacked the English forage parties and sniped at the camp at night. But the
main enemy to the English was the appalling weather. On the 25th a reconnaissance in
force of3 regiments (about 1500 men) penetrated the first two barricades in the pass. It
was not until 2nd October that, after being drawn by the Irish offering battle, did the
English send 5 Regiments (2500 men) under Sir Thomas Burke against the pass. The
assault finally faltered at the third barricade. The final battle took place on the 5th
October 1600.
ARMIES
ENGLISH
300 Horse, 3000 Foot
CinC+l Sub.Gen. Ln(F) or Bd(O)
3Lh(O};l0Pk(0};10Sh(O};l0Sh(I)

IRISH
3000 Foot
CinC+lSub.Gen. Bd(O)
5Pk(I};l5Sh(I};10Sk(O).

Figure Scale 1 ~lement = 1OOmen

DEPLOYMENT
The English attacked the pass three times, so each time place the Irish in ambush first
and the English move first.
VICTORY CONDITIONS
In all cases the English win if they capture the pass and force the Irish to withdraw from
the board by destroying 1/3rd of the Irish. The Irish win if they destroy I/3rd of each
English force.

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HISTORICAL OUTCOME
The final English attempt to take the pass on Sunday 5th October, involved a hundred
_horse and 3 Regiments of foot (1500men) in an outflanking manoeuvre in support of a
main assault up the pass. Percy's Regiment supported by St. Johns regiment climbed the
hills to the left of the pass, whilst the third regiment and the horse stood in reserve.
Initially the Irish commanding the heights withdrew but once Percy's regiment had been
drawn away from its supporting regiment, the Irish turned and attacked Percy's
outnumbered force, after a desperate struggle, St. Johns regiment came up and
supported Percy's withdrawal. Meantime in the Pass the assault had ground to a halt with
the loss of Sir Robert Lovell killed at the head of a cavalry charge. Mountjoy finally
withdrew on the 6th October claiming the weather had prevented him taking the pass but
he did not return until O'Neil had left it unguarded.

During this period O'Neil's defensive strategy though clearly working was putting a great
strain on his alliance with the O'Donnell's, who were all for allowing the English into
Armagh so they could be assaulted as at Yellow ford. Mountjoy did not retake Armagh
but built a fo1t at Mount Norris and returned along the coast rather than try the pass
again. At Carlingford Lough along a narrow wooded track on a steep slope O'Neil with
400men in prepared positions ambushed Mountjoy's column of 4 regiments. After
attacking the head of the column and forcing Mountjoy to deploy, O'Neil manoeuvred to
the rear and attacked the waiting rear regiments inflicting 80 casualties before the column
could escape.
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SEKIGAHARA 21st October 1600

THE AGE OF WAR
Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the victor of Shizugatake, had gained absolute power in Japan.
But on his death in 1598 he left an infant son, Hideyori. To rule during his son's minority,
he had appointed five regents (Tairo); Tokugawa Leyasu; Ukita Hideie; Meaeda Toshiie;
Mori Terumoto and Uesugi Kagekatsu.
Leyasu used his position as Tairo to arranged political marriages for his relatives. This
was forbidden by Hideyoshi Ishida Matsunari (an old friend of Hideyoshi) seeing his
chance to supplant Leyasu as a Tairo, demanded Leyasu resign his position but Leyasu
refused. In 1600 Uesugi Kagekatsu attacked the territory of Leyasu. Leyasu suspected
he was being set up and so when Ishida Mitsunari marched against him from Osaka,
Leyasu had forces ready to meet him Leyasu's objective was now Ishida's castle of
Sawayama or even Osaka and both sides set about manoeuvring to take strategic castles
on their lines of communications. Ishida was besieging Fushimi castle when he learned
that Leyasu was marching down the Nakasendo road and not fighting Uesugi as planned.
Ishida marched rapidly up the Nakasendo road to block the route to Sawayama, taking
up position at the important cross roads of Sekigahara.
ARMIES
ISHIDA MITSUNARI
LEYASUTOKAGAWA
Ishada 15000men Cine Ln(F)
Leyasu Tokagawa 25000men
12Ln(F);l0Bd(0);5Sh(0);10Bd(F);3Bw(I)
CinC Ln(F) lOLn(F)
15Bd(O);l0Sh(0);25Bd(F);5Bw(I)
Reserve lOOOOmen 4Ln(F);2Bd(0);20Bd(F)
Ukita Hideie 5000men Sub-Gen Ln(F)
Li Naomasa 10000 men
Sub-Gen Ln(F) 1OLn(F)
4Ln(F)5Bd(0);2Sh(0);3Bd(F)
Konishi Yukinaga 5000men Sub-Gen Ln(F)
20Bd(0);5Sh(0);10Bd(F);3Bw(I)
Tokugawa General 15000men
2Ln(F);5Bd(0 );3 Sh(0 );3Bd(F)
Konoshita 5000 men Sub-Gen Ln(F)
Sub-Gen Ln(F) lOLn(F)
2Ln(F);3Bd(0);3Sh(0);3Bd(F);2Bw(I)
15Bd(0);10Sh(0);12Bd(F);3Bw(I)
Toda 5000 men Sub-Gen Ln(F)
3Ln(F);5Bd(0 );3Bd(F);2Sh(0)
Kuchigi 5000men Sub-Gen Ln(F)
2Ln(F);4Bd(0 );2Sh(0 );5Bd(F)
Wakizaka 5000 men Sub-Gen Ln(F)
2Ln(F);4Bd(0 );2Sh( 0 );3Bd(F);2Bw(I)
Otani 5000men Sub-Gen Bd(O)
2Ln(F);5Bd(0);3Sh(0);3Bd(F)
Kobayakawa Hideaki 10000 men Sub-Gen Ln(F)
Figure Scale 1 Figure = 100 men
4Ln(F);l0Bd(0);6Sh(0);3Bd(F);3Bw(I)
DEPLOYMENT
Position Ishada's forces first. Leyasu move first. All the hills are rough. The game starts
with the valley up to the edge of the hills in mist/fog. - only count pip dice for weather
change of the Leyasu army.

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VICTORY CONDITIONS
1/3rd of a command lost equals broken, 2/3rds of the army lost equals rout.
SPECIAL RULE -TREACHERY.
Kobayakawa Hideaki will do nothing equal to the number of moves of his first pip dice.
He then will change sides to Leyasu on a pip score of 4,5,6 otherwise he does nothing.
unless he scores a 1 then he will fight for Ishada. If Hideaki changes sides all unbroken
commands within 1200 paces also change sides if their pip dice exceeds 5 in any turn
after Hideaki changes sides. The army's total for victory conditions will change as each
command changes sides.

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IDsTORICAL OUTCOME
Ishada's army was made up of many different clans , including Hideaki who had his
family held hostage by Ishada to ensure his loyalty. Having positioned his army on the
high ground around Sekigahara, placing his reserve on the Ogaki road, Ishada awaited
the arrival of other forces besieging Tokagawa castles. Leyasu, having given up waiting
for his son with 38000 men, advanced up the valley in thick fog. At about 8am as the fog
lifted, Leyasu's vanguard under Li Naomasa charged Ukita Hideie's battle. Hideie threw
back Leyasu's vanguard and as Leyasu's main body started to engage lshada's centre and
right flank, Ishada lit the signal fire for Hideaki to attack, but nothing happened. Leyasu,
also not trusting Hideaki, sent a force against him. But Hideaki had decided and charged
the Otani battle, who anticipating Hideaki's treachery, turned and threw Hideaki back.
But the treachery was contagious and Kuchigi and Wakizaka also changed sides and
attacked Otani, wiping his battle out. Isahada's army was falling apart around him but he
made a desperate attack, breaking tlrrough Leyasu's army and heading for his rese1ve.
Unf01tunately his reserve was also on the point of changing sides, but retreated from the
battle instead and lshada fell back to Sawayama.

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KINSALE 25th December 1601

THE ULSTER WAR
Hugh O'Neil had kept the English out of Ulster for nearly eight years. But by 1600 the
pressure from the English was beginning to tell His brilliant defense of Ulster, though
effective, did not threaten the English. His action of beating the English off as opposed
to attacking them was loosing him support. Having to constantly maintain a standing
army in readiness to react to the English movements, was a heavy drain on his limited
resources. But in June 1600, Spain finally agreed to inteIVene and send troops to aid
O'Neil in response to his constant requests. The Spanish inteIVention was partly due to
religion, O'Neil claiming the Catholic cause in Ireland, but also to open a second front
against the English, in a hope of drawing English troops from the war in the Netherlands.
Unfortunately the Spanish sent only half the promised 6-7000 men O'Neil required and
they were to land at Kinsale in the South of Ireland, some 150 miles from Ulster in the
North. O'Neil, on learning of the intended Spanish support, had set about reforming his
army to one of offense. Training it in pike and musket for formal warfare. But first he
would have to march right across English held Ireland, to join up with the Spanish.
The English Commander, Lord Mountjoy, had mustered all his available troops and
concentrated them in Munster, to repel the Spanish, as it was known they would land in
the south. Mountjoy outnumbered the Spanish 2: 1, but after initially assaulting Kinsale,
to which the Spanish counter attacked, he was only able to effect a blockade of the
Spanish force and not destroy it as intended.
Mountjoy having concentrated at Kinsale, could not now split his forces to guard the rest
of Ireland. With the result O'Neil could raid unopposed, creating major supply problems
for Mountjoy. O'Neil did not set out south until November and then only after O'Donnell
had set out, but on reaching Coolcarron near Cork, O'Neil advised they should stop, for
he could see the English were now trapped between the Irish and Spanish armies and in
desperate straits from lack the of supplies. O'Donnell demanded he attack and so with a
force of 6500 Irish and 200 Spanish the army advanced on the English positions at
Kinsale.
ARMIES
ENGLISH
Mountjoy 500 Horse, 2000 Foot
1CinC+1 Sub.Gen. Ln(F)
5Ln(F);8 Pk(0);12 Sh(O).
Carew l 00 Horse, 5000 Foot
2Sub.Gen.Ln(F)
I Ln(F);20 Pk(0);30 Sh(0);2 Art(S)
2 Fortified Camps

ffiISH/SPANISH
400 Horse, 6000 Foot
O'Neil 400Horse 3000 Foot.
CinC Lh(0);4Lh(I)10Pk(I);l5Sh(l);5Sk(O)
Tyrrell 1500 Foot+ 200 Spanish
Sub.Gen.Lh(0);6Pk(I);9Sh(l);1Pk(0);1Sh(O)
O'Donnell 1500 Foot.
Sub.Gen.Lh(0);8 Pk(I);12Sh(I).
Del Aguila+ 3000 Spanish in Kinsale
CinC Ln(S);l5Pk(O);l5Sh(0);1Art(S)

Figure Scale I Element = I 00 men.

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DEPLOYMENT
Place the Irish/Spanish first. English move first. Employ weather rules. Kinsale is a
fortified BUA O'Donnell arrives at A, on a roll of a 5,6.
VICTORY CONDITIONS
Each command must loose l/3rd to class as broken. The English as a whole must loose
2/3rds to rout. The Irish and Spanish force in Kinsale must be calculated separately.

EN GUSE

HISTORICAL OUTCOME
O'Neil attempted a night march on or past the English positions. What ever his intentions
had been, whether to slip past the English into Kinsale or close for a surprise dawn
attack, it had placed his army behind the English position, who now blocked the way to
Kinsale. During his march his three battles had become separated and so at dawn when
they Irish vanguard blundered into the English outposts it halted. The main battle under
O'Neil came up and then both retreated to firmer ground. Mountjoy splitting his force to
cover Kinsale, attacked the Irish forces. Initially the boggy ground held up the English,
but Mountjoy's cavalry cleared it of Irish skirmishers and charged O'Neil's battle. At this
point their appears to have been a deluge of rain, reducing the effect of Irish musketry,
but the main factor in O'Neil's battles defeat was the Irish horse, which fled from the
English cavalry attack straight through O'Neil's battle. The English horse then flanked the
illllllobile and disordered battle and broke it. Tyrrell's Battle now moved to aid O'Neil
and in doing so exposed its flank to the English infantry and was routed. The Spanish
element of Tyrell's battle reformed on a near by bill, where it was overwhelmed by the
English cavalry. O'Dom1ell's Battle had now come up but retired without fighting. 111e
Spanish in Kinsale appear to not have realise a battle was in progress and only knew after
it was all over. 111ey suffendered nine days later.
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THE BIT AT THE BACK

Each battle has a figure scale which can be changed to fit the number of Elements you
have available. The battle map is drawn to scale relative to a 15mm figure scale element
base size. So the blocks indicated on the map should cover the same area as on the map.
On the Battle map I have kept to a convention for troop symbols. as listed below.
TROOP TYPE MAP REPRESENTATION KEY

~ SUB-GENERAL

Cin C

D BODY OF TROOPS ~ LANCE

UIIl PI KE
[%! LANCE (FAST)
B SHOT
0 PISTOL(REITERS)
I: . :ISKIRMISHERS

~ CAVAISN (SAPHIS)

[]ARTILLERY

[Z] LIGHT HORSE

l~IWARWAGON

[Ej CAMELS

OTHER DBA/DBM TYPE RULES

The battles are listed in a fast play format for any rules along the lines of DBAIDBM.
But if you not using DBR then the troop classifications may be slightly different.
For Blade read Halberd or Swordsmen. Blade S. = Forlorn Hope. Pike = Pike or
Spearmen. Bow= Missile armed Foot with bows or Crossbows. Shot = Missile foot
armed with Arquebus or Musket. Either may also equal Skirmishers under DBR. Lancers
are Gendarmes or Cavalry. Pistols = Shot armed cavalry. Saphis = Bow and melee armed
cavalry. Light Horse or Dragoons = Mounted Missile armed Light Cavalry.
The victory conditions are also set up for DBR and may be changed according to the rule
set you use.

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