This past Sunday Murdock and I got together at a local hobby store to play a game of Black Powder with Jeff's collection of 18thC Bloodaxe Miniatures. The scenario was Crossroads, from Charles S. Grants Programmed War Games Scenarios.
Advanced forces of the Armies of Stagonia and Saxe-Bearstein arrive in column on roads from diagonal corner. They converge on village at the crux of 4 major arteries, that is - apparently - of great strategic importance. Initially troops arrive piecemeal:
Stagonian light horse are the first to make it to the village:
The Army of Saxe-Bearstein moves with... less purpose, shall we say...
This allows the oncoming Stagonians to move their main body forward without hinderance:
Eventually Saxe-Bearstein manages to assemble something more like an army on the table although the force has become bottlenecked:
And yet more Stagonians stream onto the table:
A series of enthusiastically followed commands finds them in an excellent position on the left flank of Saxe-Bearstein:
This picture shows the Stagonians hemming in the rudderless forces of Saxe-Bearstein:
A small victory for Saxe-bearstein as, after losing their own light horse, they have pushed back the Stagonian cavalry, and broken the brigade through musket fire. Their own brigade of horse has just started to enter the field of battle as the picture shows (the Eldebrau Dragoons in the lower left):
Not long after however, both of Saxe-Bearstein's foot brigades were broken, and the orders to withdraw were given, leaving the crossroads and village to Stagonia:
