Whalley Rerun

I haven't tried this scenario for ages, but with a low unit-count and some open areas I thought that it would offer some excellent flanking opportunities in order to test my rules changes.

Here's a rundown of the forces:

Parliament

1 x Commander (Colonel Shuttleworth)
1 x Elite Pike & Shot (Shuttleworth's Foot)
1 x Average Pike & Shot (Brereton's Foot)
1 x Average Dragoons
2 x Raw Horse

Royalists

1 x Commander (Earl of Derby)
1 x Average Pike & Shot (Molyneux's Foot)
1 x Elite Pike & Shot (Tyldesley's Foot)
1 x Raw Pike & Shot (Fylde's Clubmen) - This unit cannot fire and starts with a Strength of 3
1 x Raw Dragoons
2 x Average Horse (Derby's Horse and Houghton's Horse)

The action starts with the Royalist advance party, consisting of Tyldesley's Foot and the dragoons, being surprised by Shuttleworth's Foot and Parliament's dragoons. To cover this I had Parliament go first. To simulate surprise, and the the fact that a lot of each side's forces were unprepared and acting as reinforcements, I gave the Royalists only 2 activation dice on the first turn, and only 4 on the second. Parliament was restricted to 4 activation dice on the first turn as well.

Tyldesley's Foot beat a hasty retreat when Parliament's foot opened fire on them. Surprisingly the dragoons stood their ground. 

The Royalist advanced party fell back towards the stream, but their horse was coming up and engaged their Parliamentarian opposing numbers.

Colonel Shuttleworth advanced his foot in pursuit of the Royalists

The Royalist horse was held back, allowing Parliament's horse to cross the stream and attack Lord Derby's troops. However the poor Parliamentarian horse wasn't really up to the task and was driven off completely.

With their forces now consolidated the Royalists advanced across the stream, and slowly began to push the Parliamentarians back.

Molyneux's Foot broke under fire ...

... but elsewhere the Royalist advance was a resounding success, the high-point of which was Fylde's Clubmen striking Colonel Shuttleworth's veteran foot in the flank and routing them.

Reduced to a regiment of foot and some dragoons, Parliament's army broke.

I fought it again the next day. After having a look at the terrain on Google Maps I made the stream trickier to cross in the second game (stop when you reach it and on the next bound the only move you can make is to cross one square). This time the initial Parliamentarian volley destroyed the Royalist dragoons, whilst Parliament's horse pushed back the Royalist cavalry. The Royalists quickly found themselves on the back foot, and defending the stream-line, but steady fire from Parliament's foot and flank attacks from their horse saw Lord Derby's men break.

The flank attack changes didn't get a massive test in either of these games, since most retreats were blocked anyway, but I will keep trying.