The short story is the Kattegoans routed Lord Renaldo’s Portuguese in a hard fought battle.

At the end, few of either side’s companies (units) were capable of movement to contact since their Resolve had dropped to one, as both leaders were either involved in melee or too far away to effectively rally the affected companies.  With low Resolve, a company cannot enter into melee, but can still shoot.

This problem was mitigated by my failure to role for Impetuous Actions for those units outside of command radius.  However, I can partially rationalize this oversight because each company kept to their original plan.  An exception was the Kattegoan leader taking his company on a wide envelopment.  While in the short term this placed him out of touch with his companies, the end result was to flank and scatter (rout) Lord Renaldo’s company, putting an end to the battle.

I can’t rationalize my failure to use a leader’s +2 die roll modification in all but the last round of melee.  This had a significant effect on the Portuguese, as Renaldo’s company was in a melee marked by a series of Inconclusive Draws (no effect on either side) for almost the entire battle.

Only the dogged Pikemen and a lone Crossbow company remained cohesive enough to cover the Portuguese withdrawal to Ekene, where they will remain for some time after this failure and accompanying loss of prestige.  While Lord Renaldo will remain in command for the time being, that may change after word of the debacle reaches Lisbon.

Oumar, the Kattegoan leader, proved to be a somewhat unorthodox commander, leaving his companies to flank the Portuguese force.  While aided by my rules omission, this tactic proved decisive.  He is now considered an Experienced Lord ( proven leader)and will now receive a +1 die roll modification for Initiative.

Here’s a series of poor battle narrative photographs.  I also need to figure out how to change the font/size for the captions.