Field Of Glory Renaissance - Habsburg Austrian against Sun King

Game of FOGR with Stephen with him using a recently painted but unbloodied French Louis XIVth army.

I used my TYW Imperialists as a surrogate Habsburg Austrian Imperial army.

Ten of my thirteen units were average and unarmoured with only two units of Kuirassirer having armour and one Pike & Shot unit being superior.

Bit odd having two units of 'Reiter' (Carbine and Pistol) being classed as Determined Horse and thereby as Shock types.

But these done sterling service against superior French mounted certainly compared to the Kuirassier who crumbled like flaky pastry.

Several of my Pike and Shot units had Regt Guns attached which whilst expensive points wise are a nice add on giving my shooting and impact some extra punch.

I had a unit of three guns which rolled lots of sixes but only against two base enemy battery which is rather hard to damage or kill.

My mounted units where overwhelmed despite the efforts of the Reiters (German Cavalry in list) and so foot in danger of being flanked which saw one of my units adopt Square formation.

Not something I think we have ever used (no need with Tercios) and it caused a few problems trying to work out which bases could be contacted/fight and numbers of dice to wield (first rules issue in eons).

But of little consequence as my army beyond redemption at this point.

Austrian left with soon to vanish Kuirassier flanking Pike & Shot

French cavalry pushing forward after Kuirassier evaporated but dwindling numbers of Reiters hold up more Sun Kingers

Foot face off in center

French had single Pike base but Austrian Regt Guns evened things up in shooting stakes

Foot flanks looking exposed

Austrian right

Reiters on this flank also took a longer time than expected to be beaten by superior French mounted

Austrian guns (behind fortifications) were pretty accurate but French gun targets remained steadfast

Field Of Glory: Renaissance a Christmas game - Spain vs France

Annual game at Johns with Mr P, Le Duc and Stephen using FOGR.

Game was 1000 points per side using French and Spanish circa 1643ish

Troops from Stephen and Johns 15mm collections

John and Le Duc were Spanish and Mr P and I as French with Stephen umpiring.

We set up table using FOGR terrain system and then had at it with Mr P in control on French right facing John with my own wee self on the left facing Le Duc.

Spanish won the day as French right was virtually wiped out (think Mr P had 2 units left out of 10) and I suffered on our left (losing 4 of 8 units)

Spanish did suffer several losses but their Elite units really shone through, with their dice re-rolls turning several defeats into victories, especially in center against average and even superior French foot.

As ever a great days craic with plenty of insults and (very non-PC) banter and lots of dice rolled usingth a good set of rules.

French left as battle is joined with opposing mounted across hill slopes

French center with my foot on left and Mr P to the right

French right wing mounted force being wiped out by Spanish counterparts

Spanish Elite foot (around hillock) pounding forward

My Determined Horse tangle with Armoured Cuirassier types

Earlier as I maneuvered to engage whilst avoiding attention of some Spanish cannon

My horse arrayed a start with my foot unit in standard formation

Initial deployment on right wing

And some much better pics borrowed (ie stolen) from Le Ducs blog http://warfareintheageofcynicsandamateurs.blogspot.com

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Left til right, Moi, Mr P, John, Stephen and Le Duc

Field Of Glory: Renaissance - Early Imperial vs Ottoman Turkish

Another game with FOGR as Stephen wanted to give his Ottoman Turks an outing and I took my Imperialists as an Early version.

I had 5 Later Tercios, 1 Dragoon, 2 Artillery along with 2 Kuirassiere and 2 Reiters.

Turks had several units of Janassieres, 2 Artillery, some other Musket armed foot and several cavalry units some with bows (14 units in total).

Another good game and quite bloody, although Turks managed to break my army with their superior volume of shooting and by my Horse underperforming.

 

Field Of Glory: Renaissance - Later German versus Later French

Another game with FOGR today as my Later TYW German Catholics faced Stephens Later French force.

Tercios no longer available (army roughly 1635-1639) so a bunch of Pike & Shot foot backed by couple of Kuirassiere and Reiters with usual Dragoons and Artillery with a unit of Tratischer (Sword and Buckler types) and Croats for a change.

French foot are all Impact (which proved decisive) backed by Determined Horse and also with usual Artillery and Dragoons and also fielding a unit of Croat Light Horse.

Both sides managed to field 14 units rather than usual 11 or 12

Game really decided early on in middle of field when 3 of my foot units were destroyed or broken with a General lost (even though not fighting in front rank) and loss in same turn of another General on my left whilst leading Kuirassiere in combat.

The Impact ability of French in the Impact Phase (quelle surprise) made the difference.

This left me with only one General and so any Disruption or worse not able to be Rallied.

Further losses saw my force defeated in short order, but still this way a fun game if only in trying to beat the odds (Never a forte of my dicing skills).

The extra shooting dice of my units (French are Musket*) was I felt outweighed by the Impact ability as losing in Impact phase and subsequent Cohesion losses is crippling in a foot vs foot encounter (as generally occurs in center in FogR) but such is life.

Germans approach French lines

Despite having numbers on my left I was unable to overwhelm the French mounted

German right

Field Of Glory: Renaissance another outing - Spanish versus Dutch

Game at Stephens and he choose FOGR again but this time we tried earlier armies namely the Spanish and Dutch in Flanders in  late 16th century (all figures Stephens).

I took Spanish and thankfully realised my list was underpointed early on, and also thankfully this was easily fixed (by losing lots of Superior status and downgrading a commander)

I had 3 Early Tercios (1 Superior), 3 units of Walloons (one a skirmisher) backed by 2 medium artillery batteries, a unit of mounted Arquebusier, 1 unit of heavy Gendarmes and 2 lowly Light Lance Celadas horse.

At start I split 2 of the Walloons into a pike Keil and a unit of Arguebusiers to try these formations.

Dutch had 3 nasty Kuirassiere units and set up a portion of their foot and guns behind fortifications.

Another fun and bloody game with the Kuirassiere crushing my cavalry (some awful Cohesion tests once more) but my artillery shot really well causing lots of hits but only 2 kills but did Disrupt a unit of superior Pike & Shot several times.

Cowardly cur Dutch hiding behind defences meant it took my Tercios a good while to get to grips but these proved quite resilient and drew in several Dutch units (although they were suffering towards the end), their lack of flanks or threats to same is bonus but they are unwieldly with dissipated shooting (due to width)

My losses mounted and the Wavering (ie Fragmenting) of a Tercio tipped army over the edge.

Bit different using Keil, Early Tercios and having most shooting reduced to 3" (Dutch had a couple of musket armed units) .

 

Spanish left wing with Walloons and doomed mounted

Tercios with mounted Arquebusiers in support

Central area with skirmishers in field (chased out by Dragoons) and Dutch fortifications in distance

Artillery deployed together on left as Walloons and cavalry deploy

Field Of Glory: Renaissance - Early Catholic vs Late Swedish

Game today with Stephen using FOGR and my Thirty Years War Early Catholics fielded against a Later Swedish force.

Been several months since we played FOGR but all went smoothly and fun game was had, well for me if not for my troops.

I had fairly decent (ie average which is good for me) shooting and death rolls, but failed to win many combats which led to numerous Cohesion Tests and a deluge of awful results.

Even when I rolled 5 hits in a combat the evil sod rolled 6 and I had couple of units Fragmented or Broken without a single base loss !!

Needless to say this saw my lot implode with Swedes virtually untouched besides a few lost bases.

But was good experience with a decent set of points based/competition style rules which despite their complexity we have pretty much got handle on despite playing intermittently and always good to get TYW toys on table.

Not seen much online re FOGR recently, suspect the newer Renato Et Gloriam (which I dont follow) may corner this market ?

Late Imperial Tercios advance, note Regimental Guns attached to some Swedish units, these are decent add-ons 

Imperial Kurassiare (who were pants) face Determined Swedish Horse

Four Late Tercios form main Imperial battle line

The supposedly Superior Imperial Kurassiere formed right wing

First moves