Setting Up a Battle for Next Week

 I was supposed to get started on this a couple of nights ago, but I got hit with a letter from HMRC (the UK tax office) - the sort of letter which says "whatever you were going to do for the next few days, you'd better forget it and start panicking - we think you may owe us money from 5 years ago...".

In fact it is my mother who may owe them money, but the implication is the same. I have managed to write back, scrambling the ball back into their court, offering a polite Fact Check on their calculations. Thus things are peaceful enough again to get on with setting up a battlefield for the end of next week. Ruin can arrive in its own time.

This will be the little-known battle of Münzkirchen, from the early days of 1703, when the Austrians and Bavarians were suddenly on opposite sides of the WSS, and were worried about their common border, in the area around Passau.

All I have on offer this evening is a few photos showing general views of the table - there should be some actual fighting on Thursday.

 

General view from behind Bavarian left flank

 

This is Arco's Bavarian cavalry brigade, on their left - two units of cuirassiers and two of dragoons

 

A look along the Imperial army, from its right

 

Austrian horse - Niederhammer's brigade, on their right flank

 

Now a general view from behind the Bavarian right

 

The Austrian left and centre

 

Austrian cuirassiers - this lot are the regiment of Jung-Darmstadt

 

More of the same - these are Lobkowicz's boys

 

One of the Bavarian cavalry commanders, Weichel, leads his men onto the field