The Battle of Blasthof Bridge (or a 'Blast' from the past}

    I set out the troops as close as possible to the book and tried to follow their manoeuvres as near as I could .

The rules are very simple and it was nice not to have to keep consulting them constantly , unlike some modern rules.

The Artillery proved quite effective and it was important to get it into action as soon as possible.

The Electoral Foot cross the River Blast upstream from the bridge . 

The Imperial Foot start taking casualties from the enemy guns 

The game after about 4 moves , both sides have deployed their Artillery which are starting to cause casualties.

The Imperial Artillery take casualties - so bad that the Office has to help to man the gun.

There where several Cavalry clashes and the action swung back and forth with the Imperial Cuirassiers getting the worst of it .

The remnants of the Imperial Cavalry retire across the bridge . I had decided to play the game for 12 moves and by then the Imperial Forces had  lost most of their Cavalry and about a quarter of their Infantry and although the Electoral Force had not captured both ends of the bridge they had the least casualties so I gave the victory to them ! .An interesting game, I would perhaps increase the move distances and the musket ranges because of my larger table , but a very enjoyable game and a real 'blast from the past'