PanzerKaputs' Blood and Plunder

I had a great game of Blood and Plunder last night introducing Chris Clark to pleasures of the land battle after learning the ropes with sea battles. Actually it is easier the other way round Chris, lol.

The set of was a simple one, in the village of the settlement of Lacenta there is a store of heavy cannons left there the Don Roberto under the watchful of the local priest, Father Alberto. Unfortunately Father Alberto loves to talk, especially when there is wine involved and the news of the canons loosely guard fell on the ears of both a pirate of the Brethren of the Coast but the name of Willyam Stands, an Englishmen by birth and also to Don Alonzo, a rival of Don Roberto, seeing this as a good way to ruin Don Roberto’s reputation with the local governor.

So both forces planned and made their way to the village of Lacenta, arriving at the opposite sides of the village with the aim of getting the canons away. The Brethren of the Coast moved into the village from the west taking up positions to strike at anyone trying to take the canons and ensure the canons safe passage back to their home.

The Spanish moved into the village from the east and put their musketeers on the flanks with their melee troops in the centre. The first fire was by the Spanish shooting at the Brethren’s Filbustiers, to no effect however the Filbustiers’ return fire was accurate and cut into the Milicianos musketeers, cutting them by half and causing them to be Shaken. The Lanceros, moved the wooded area that the Filbustiers were in to set of a change but the Flibustiers’ with there fast reload fired at the Lanceros as they rushed in and the initial change hit the Filbustiers hard but they managed to hold on and push the Lanceros back.

Meanwhile in the centre the Brethren’s Forlorn Hope under the command of Willyam Stands rushed forward and grabbed the canons and started moving them back when their were hit by another unit of Lanceros who caused them to fall back and leave the canons. However this meant that the Lanceros managed to pull the canon and themselves into the cover of the stone fountain. But the Brethren where having none of this and moved their Sea Dogs to chase after them but the Spanish screened the retreat of the Lanceros but their Marineros moving forward and engaging with the Brethens’ Forlorn Hope, destroying them in the process but the Sea Dogs rushed pass them to chase at the Lanceros with the canon.

The Lanceros started to drag the canons away, with the Spanish casualties mounting and the Spanish forces on the point of breaking the important thing was to finish the mission and get the canons away. So to buy time the Spanish commander Don Alonzo with his Milicianos, changed at the Brethren’s Sea Dog hoping to Shake them or buy time for the Lanceros to get the canons away but the Sea Dogs levels their pistols at the oncoming Milicianos and fired causing multiple hits and when the smoke cleared Don Alonzo and his Milicianos where laying dead or wounded on the floor. The rest of the Spanish left broke and run away leaving the canons in the hands of Willyam Stands and his Brethren of the Coast.