Beneath The Lily Banners War of the Grand Alliance Game Pictures...

....and brief report! The war was also known as The Nine Years War, The War of the League of Augsburg and the The War of the Palatine Succession I believe and ran from 1688-1697......

Some of the Rejects got together to play a game of the Nine Years War recently using a scenario that Ray had made up, Richard was the French while myself and Postie were a mixture of British, Danish and Huguenots forces.
We had a lot of British raw units but also British and Danish guard units, the French were a mixture of drilled and elite), we were allowed to set up to our own designs, also warned about the town being very important and that the road at the rear of our lines was important (which we seemed to ignore for some reason, I blame Postie as he was technically in charge).
We were unaware whether the river was fordable or not (as was the French player we found out) so we deployed for battle.....

The initial table as first seen to the Alliance forces with the French to be seen in the distance...

Our initial set up, Postie on the far right and myself on the left.......

My Dutch horse, blade class for once.....

My British horse supporting the line.....

This was as far as we could set up from the bridge.....

We sprinted forward to defend the bridge......

Richard starts his advance (this was hard as his main leader had been classed as a plodder and his second in command was classed as skillful!)......

We arrive and set our status to defend (+1 to firing was all we cared for).....

The plodding advance (having a plodding leader in charge and some awful dice rolls affected Richard badly at the time, you can end up not moving anything or very little).......

Then the French appeared in our rear...where we should have been waiting and watching!

As you see we were looking the wrong way!

But some plodding rolls for poor Richard and aggressive manoeuvring and swearing from myself we got things turned around at least to face them (Richard was hell bent on reaching the town)....

The French on the road, the walls and hedges while been lovely were a nightmare for getting off the road, his artillery couldn't cross at all.....

The plodding leader base...beautiful though!

A view from the French side......

Caught a lot of his cavalry in the flank....

....with the desired effect! (Cue maniacal laughter)

The main assault eventually arrives (the dice gods really had anally invaded him this day)....

Move it, quicker, faster my pretties....... 

The last of the French rear attack meets his end.....

The assault with attached French main leader by this stage (we think Richard wanted him dead as he could then switch to his skillful leader but it wasn't for the lack of trying on our part either but he survived).....

....but the unit didn't and the French conceded, this was influenced by the French unit on the left finding out the river couldn't be forded due to heavy rain in the mountains......

Winner, winner, chicken dinner and another win for the Roll of Fame, as you know when I last played these rules for the first time I didn't like him but they're not too bad a second time around especially deploying yourself at the start of the game.....and the win helped as well!

Ray has whined at me all morning that I have to LINK back to his initial batrep and for the sake of my diminishing sanity and world peace I have!

I'm the good one........