The Great North War was a spawling affair which saw the rise and fall of a Swedish Baltic empire in a series of conflicts with the Russians and their allies. It saw a clash between The Lion of the North (Charles XII of Sweden) and Peter the Great of Russia. For our holiday weekend game we mustered our GNW figures and refought Blenheim in this period.
The Swedes and German allies were the attackers with a superior quality force but facing enemy dug-in in villages. The Russians and Danes were lower quality but had the ground. The boggy terrain and village meant that both sides massed their Horse in the centre.
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| The field from behind the Russians on the defenders right |
The attackers had the Swedes on their left, ready to attack the Russians opposite them and Germans (player by British) on the opposite side.
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| Swedes read to attack |
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| Swedish horse in the centre |
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| Allied German horse |
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| British doubling-up as Germans |
The defenders had Russian and Danish holding the flanks with a polyglot Horse centre.
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| Russian defenders |
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| Russian and allied Horse |
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| Danes |
The the opening moves the attackers moved cautiously on the flanks while the cavalry attacked in the middle. The Swedes were outnumbered but had superior tactics as they favoured the charge, sword in hand, rather than a steady trot shooting.
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| Germans attacking the Danes |
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| Swedish foot advance |
As always in our GNW games the cavalry combat was messy and pretty deadly with both sides trading blows. Honours were pretty even, which favoured the defenders as they really just needed to hold out to stop the villages being flanked.
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| Horse about the clash - in a few short moves lots of this will be dead! |
When the attacking foot arrived they threw themselves into the defenders but were unable to break through the lines and take the villages. So unlike history the defenders were able to hold out and retain the field.
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| Swedes charge in |
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