Grant Whitley - Oct 4, 2005 3:42 pm (#10891 Total: 10891) "The facts are that I wrote Haiti's Constitution myself, and, if I do say it, I think it a pretty good Constitution"- Franklin D. Roosevelt Los Tercios OTT for me is the new Alea game, "Los Tercios" aka "Where the Sun Never Set". I played the Nieuport scenario; it was a very tense game. The Spanish got off to an horrendous start. First, Allied cavalry assaulted the Spanish right flank and destroyed all of the Spanish artillery. Then, the Spanish lost an entire three unit stack to artillery fire from a battery of English basilisks. Fortunately for the Spanish, the Dutch pressed their advantage too strongly. The lone Spanish cavalry unit on the right flank managed to pin a Dutch cavalry unit against the North Sea and destroy it. Then, the Dutch launched a headlong assault on the weakened Spanish center with most of their cavalry. This move was decisively rebuffed by an elite Spanish yeoman pike unit defending in a dune hex. One of the Dutch cavalry units was subsequently assaulted and destroyed by Spanish lansquenets. Despite this success, the Spanish still desperately needed to rebuild their line. To buy time for this, the Spanish Gennets and Black Cassocks(both types of light cavalry) raided the Dutch rear. Any thought of continuing the assault on the Spanish center had to be abandoned in order to deal with this threat. The Spanish needed to knock off an isolated unit in order to drop Dutch morale; however, the Gennets rolled poorly and were soundly rebuffed by the Dutch cavalry, who destroyed them in turn. Meanwhile, the Spanish had reformed their line and were assaulting the main line of the Allied army with squadrons of arquebusiers, yeoman pike, and lansquenets. The Spanish needed quick and decisive results, before the Dutch could reorganize their right into squadrons of arquebusiers and puissant pike. Unfortunately for the Spanish, these attacks bore little fruit. Without having inflicted sufficient losses on the Dutch and with their own morale plummeting, the Spanish fell victim to a successful Dutch victory roll at the end of turn 6.