35 - Auldearn

Auldearn
9 May 1645
Covenanters
Cards 203B – 208B
Morale: 5
Royalists
Cards 209B – 216B
Morale: 0 - see below
If any Royalist card Routs, the Covenanters win immediately. If Lawers Retires before Montrose has Commanded any formations, the Irish Left and Right immediately come out of reserve.
400 desperate men defend Auldearn from a Covenanter army nearly 2,000 strong. Their only hope is that Montrose will arrive in time to turn the tide. He better hurry it up!
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Lawers's Horse
1
4
Screen
Pair
Garlic Hill, Irish Right
A single troop of about thirty men (and presumably the same number of horses) that would be easily routed by the arrival of two hundred cavalry under Gordon.
203B
♠
Campbell of Lawers
6
( 4 / 5 / 6 )
Attack
Garlic Hill, MacColla's Lifeguard
1 hit per die. 1 self.
Take dice from Lawers's Horse.
Counterattack
Any enemy attacking it
1 hit. Suffers 1 less hit per die.
RETIRE
204B
♣
Seaforth
4
Doubles
Absorb
Pair
Campbell of Lawers
Suffers 1 hit only.
If Campbell of Lawers Routs or Retires, Seaforth immediately Routs.
Rather than deploying in a battleline, the Covenanter regiments were secunded - one after the other. Once Lawers's men broke, they ran into and through the men behind them; the result was anarchy.
205B
♣
Drummond
2
3 / 4
Attack
Aboyne
1 hit per die.
Screen
Pair
Aboyne
206B
♠
Lothian
4
3 / 4
Attack
Irish Right
1 hit per die. 1 self.
Counterattack
Pair
Irish Right
1 hit.
IN RESERVE (Campbell of Lawers)
207B
♣
Lord Chancellor's
4
5 / 6
Attack
Irish Left
1 hit per die. 1 self.
Counterattack
Pair
Irish Left
1 hit.
IN RESERVE (Drummond)
208B
♣
Garlic Hill
4
( 5 / 6 )
Attack
Campbell of Lawers
1 hit.
Counterattack
Campbell of Lawers
1 hit. Suffers 1 less hit per die.
RETIRE
209B
♦
Moneymore
1
3 / 4
Screen
Pair
Campbell of Lawers
When Garlic Hill Retires, so does this card; they are all falling back to the position represented by the MacColla's Lifeguard card, in Auldearn.
210B
♥
MacColla's Lifeguard
3
( 5 / 6 )
Attack
Campbell of Lawers
1 hit plus 1 hit per die.
This Formation ALWAYS suffers one less hit when Attacked and NEVER suffers more than one hit in any given Attack.
Forced to abandon his position on Garlic Hill, MacColla fell back to Auldearn itself. The fighting there was fierce, and Mungo Campbell of Lawers was killed in action.
IN RESERVE (Garlic Hill)
211B
♦
Montrose
1
1 / 2 / 3
Command
Full House
Gordon and Aboyne
Montrose may only perform the second action after having previously performed the first.
Command
Two Pairs
Irish Left and Irish Right
Montrose's horse went around the village and smashed the enemy wings; then his foot came through the village to engage.
212B
♥
Aboyne
4
4 / 5 / 6
Attack
Drummond, Lord Chancellor's
1 hit per die. 1 self.
Screen
Pair
Drummond, Lord Chancellor's
IN RESERVE (Commanded)
213B
♥
Gordon
4
1 / 2 / 3
Attack
Lawers's Horse, Campbell of Lawers
1 hit per die. 1 self.
Screen
Pair
Campbell of Lawers, Lothian
IN RESERVE (Commanded)
214B
♥
Irish Left
4
1 / 2 / 3
Attack
Campbell of Lawers, Drummond, Lord Chancellor's
1 hit plus 1 hit per die. 1 self.
Counterattack
Lord Chancellor's
1 hit. Suffers 1 less hit per die.
IN RESERVE (Commanded)
215B
♦
Irish Right
4
4 / 5 / 6
Attack
Campbell of Lawers, Lothian
1 hit plus 1 hit per die. 1 self.
Counterattack
Lothian
1 hit. Suffers 1 less hit per die.
IN RESERVE (Commanded)
216B
♦