Rocoux anyone? It sounds like a French dish, which begs the question is it better served hot or cold and with a Bordeaux or a crisp Chardonnay?
This was part of Marshall de Saxe's campaign. It pits the French against the British, Dutch, Hanoverian and Hessians.
The article I have from Minature Wargames is only half, this was from issue 195, August 1999. I must have bought the issue before I left for Japan, gee 20 years already.......
Anyhow, I shall be working on an order of battle.
the French line
Looking towards the Hessian and British lines
The British left wing made up of a composite Grenadier Battalion with a strong Highlanders contingent
The Allied horse waiting to smash into the French
the Royal Artillery on the Allied right.
the French Horse begin to advance
the French cavalry attempt to hit the Allied left
The last of the Brunswick and Hessian troops
French musketry is punishing the Allied line
Royal Artillery desperately attempts to move the guns to support an assault. Eventually the Allied force suffered so many casualties. The French emerged victorious
the French line
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