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The game was very different to last fortnight's encounter battle. It was primarily a game of manouevre but ended in a flurry of combats.
The set-up had Montrose's force positioned over the middle & upper parts of the table with the English Royalists massed at one end.
Here can be seen the wagons filled with gold (& whisky), waiting to begin the journey to safety:
And Montrose himself:
The English had a superiority in cavalry and their plan was to charge down the central road with strong pike and shot units on either flank.
The Scots watched on from the higher ground:
Part of the English planned involved a flanking force :
that miraculously (lucky dice) arrived in the right place in Turn 2:
Montrose & his vanguard watched warily:
Not so lucky, many were destroyed by McColla's mad Irishmen:
The centre saw some fierce fighting:
A last ditch charge by Bassett's cavaliers came within a whisker of taking the wagons but were held by a Scottish Pike & Shot regiment (Earl of Cromarty's) as the wagon train escaped.
Game over:
donald
