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Playbook Use the Following Informa- Tion Under the Lily Banners 1 PLAY BOOK Table of Contents All Scenarios .................................................................. 2 Historical Notes .............................................................. 35 Rocroi .......................................................................... 3 The French in the Thirty Years War Freiburg im Breisgau...................................................... 11 and Literature ................................................................. 38 Scenario 1: Schönberg ........................................... 13 Game Tactics .................................................................. 39 Scenario 2: Josephsbergle ...................................... 16 Mergentheim Playthrough.............................................. 40 Mergentheim ................................................................. 19 General Designer’s Notes .............................................. 46 Alerheim ......................................................................... 22 Bibliography ................................................................... 47 Lens .......................................................................... 28 Notes on Specific Battles ............................................... 48 GMT Games, LLC 0504 © 2005 GMT Games, LLC 2 Under the Lily Banners This Accursed Civil War: All Scenarios: I/Bard (double infantry unit), II/Bard (single infantry unit). All scenarios throughout this Playbook use the following informa- tion. Sweden Fights On (all double infantry units): de Hasi, Maul, 2 x Gamla Blåa, Jeschwitzki, Lillie, Grana, New- Color Codes on Counters: Waldenstein, de Suys, 2 x Enckevoort, Zaradetzky, Colloredo, Colors are top color on background color for units/leaders. Gonzaga, Ranfft, and Fernamond. French Forces and Allies: Wing Designations: • French: Light blue on blue/Light blue on dark blue (All battles) Wing Name: Counter Abbr: Battle: • Scots Allies: Dark blue on blue (Rocroi, Lens) Left L All • Swiss Allies: Red on blue (Rocroi) Center C All • Hesse-Cassel: Dark gray on light gray/Dark gray on gray Right R All (Alerheim) Sirot’s Reserve S Rocroi • Liege Allies: Teal on blue (Rocroi) Turenne’s T Mergentheim • Lorraine Allies: Orange on blue (Rocroi, Lens) Erlach’s Reserve E Lens • German Allies: Black on blue/black on dark blue (Rocroi, Not used that day - Freiburg Mergentheim, Alerheim, Lens) At Freiburg, where some units appeared in different Wings on dif- • Italian Allies: Green on blue (Alerheim, Lens) ferent days, the units have two designations, one for each day. • Irish Allies: Dark green on blue (Alerheim) Battle Designations: Anti-French Forces: Battle: Counter Abbr: • Spanish: Dark yellow on light yellow/Dark yellow on yellow Rocroi Ro or R (Rocroi, Lens) Freiburg Fr or F • Bavarian: Blue on light gray/blue on gray (Freiburg, Mergentheim Me or M Mergentheim, Alerheim) Alerheim Al or A • Imperial: Red on tan/red on brown (Alerheim) Lens Le or L • German Allies: Black on light yellow/black on yellow (Rocroi, French Ranks and Abbreviations: Lens) In French: Abbr: Modern English: • Burgundian Allies: Burgundy on yellow (Rocroi, Lens) Colonel Col Colonel • Italian Allies: Green on yellow (Rocroi, Lens) Mestre de Camp Col Colonel / Brigadier General • Walloon Allies: Maroon on yellow (Rocroi, Lens) Maréchal de Camp MdC Major General • Croatian Allies: Tan on yellow (Rocroi, Lens) Mestre de Camp Général MdCG Major General (of Horse or • Irish Allies: Bright green on yellow (Lens) Foot) • Lorraine Allies: Orange on yellow (Lens) Général Gen Lieutenant General Counter Notes: Maréchal FM Field Marshal 1. Generic replacement leaders are called Colonel (French), Oberst Imperial/Bavarian Ranks and Abbreviations: (Hessian, Bavarian, and Imperial), or Maestre de Campo (Spanish). In German: Abbr: Modern English: OberstLeutnant ObrLt Lieutenant Colonel 2. Many of the cavalry units and some of the infantry have more than one counter with the same unit name. This was done so that Oberst Obr Colonel players can more easily separate counters used in each battle. Each Generalwachtmeister GWM Brigadier General unit has a designation on it indicating which battle it appears in. Generalfeldzeugmeister GFM Major General Generalleutnant GenLt Lieutenant General 3. However, it was not possible to make separate counters for each Feldmarschal FM Field Marshal battle for artillery units and leaders, which are shared between battles. Note: Many officers held commissions in both the Imperial and 4. There are some replacement counters on the countersheet for ear- Bavarian armies of different ranks lier games in the Musket and Pike Battle Series that are not used in Under the Lily Banners. The use of these counters is explained in Spanish Army of Flanders Ranks and Abbreviations: the errata at the end of the Rulebook. These counters and the games In German: Abbr: Modern English: they go with are: Sargent mayor SgtMaj Lieutenant Colonel (also Capitan of the Second Company) A complete game of Under the Lily Banners includes: Maestre de MdC Colonel (also Capitan of the First 1 MPBS Series Rulebook Campo/Coronel Company) 1 ULB Playbook General GenMaj Major General (also General of 4 maps (2 sheets backprinted) Cavalry and General of Artillery) 3 countersheets 1 10-sided die Maestre de GenLt Lieutenant General (second in 1 Charts and Tables card Campo general command and commanded all the 1 Orders card infantry, later made third in com- mand) © 2005 GMT Games, LLC Under the Lily Banners 3 Teniente General GenLt Assistant to the Capitan General Notes applicable to all scenarios: Capitan General Gen Governor and Commander of the • Unless a specific setup location is indicated, Wing Commanders Army of Flanders start stacked with any unit in their Wing as per 5.21, and Army Commanders start stacked with or adjacent to any unit of their Nobility: army. In French: German: Spanish: Modern English: sieur Freiherr, Ritter Don Sir • When determining Victory Points, always subtract the points ac- baron Baron Barón Baron cumulated by the Anti-French player from those accumulated by marquis Graf Marques Marquis the French player. vicomte Graf Viconde Viscount comte Graf Conde Count duc Herzog Duque Duke Note: In French the titles are not capitalized Other abbreviations used: aka: Also known as Incl.: Includes KIA: Killed in Action WIA: Wounded in Action POW: Captured (Prisoner of War) Unit Types: Arty: Artillery Arq.: Arquebussier (Mounted) or Mounted Dragoons Cuir.: Cuirassier HI Bn: Heavy Infantry Battalion Rocroi HI Bn w/Arty: Heavy Infantry Battalion with Organic Artillery HI Bn (No Pikes): Heavy Infantry Battalion with no Pikemen May 19, 1643 LI: Light Infantry, Dismounted Dragoons, or De- Rocroi, arguably the most significant battle of the Thirty Years War, tached Musketeers was the battle that broke the power of the Spanish tercios. The French faced a larger Spanish army but the energetic duc d’Enghien (later Note: TACW and SFO called the HI units “brigades,” but here known as the Grand Condé) in his debut battle refused to quit when they are called “battalions.” While the Swedes and English called all seemed lost and snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. such units “brigades,” the French, Spanish, and Bavarians used “battalions.” For purposes of play, treat both terms the same, and Rocroi is a small, fortified town that commands the Ardennes pla- any Series rule that refers to brigades applies equally to battalions. teau between the Meuse river valley and the headwaters of the Oise in the Champagne - Ardenne region of France. It is only two miles Nationalities: from the modern Belgian border and is some 55 miles north of Reims. Fr.: French It was originally called Croix-de-Rau, which became Rau Croix, Sp.: Spanish then finally Rocroi. The town was fortified in the 16th Century and Bv.: Bavarian had been previously besieged by the Imperial Army in 1555. HC: Hesse-Cassel (Allied to France) Lg.: Liegeoise (From the Bishopric of Liège; allied to France) The Commanders Lo.: Lorraine The Spanish Sw.: Swiss (Allied to France) Captain-General Don Francisco de Melo, Marques de Tor de La- Sc.: Scots guna, later Duque de Bragance, (1597-1651) was one of the few Ge.: German Portuguese nobles to remain loyal after the rebellion of 1640, tak- Bu.: Burgundian (aka Franche Comté; allied to Spain) ing command late in 1641 with little prior experience. After Rocroi It.: Italian he returned to Spain and had an illustrious career in government Wa.: Walloon (Allied to Spain) service. Alvaro de Melo, Don Francisco’s younger brother, served Cr.: Croatian as the commander of the artillery. Ir.: Irish General Francisco Fernandez de la Cueva, Duque de Alburquerque Im.: Imperial (1619-1676) came to Flanders in 1640 to command a Tercio, and later promoted to cavalry command. His is an important account of German/French/Spanish Glossary: the battle from the Spanish side. Alt / Alte = Old or The Elder Neu = New Maestro de Campo General Conde Paulo Bernard Fuentes (aka comte Paul de Fontaine) (ca. 1575-1643) rose from a poor gentle- Jung = The Younger men to titled nobility in the service of Spain. He was originally Vieux = Old or Veteran from Franche Comté. Viejo = Old or Veteran © 2005 GMT Games, LLC 4 Under the Lily Banners Graf Ernst von Isenburg-Grenzau (ca. 1584-1664) (his name has Bucquoy commanded much of the cavalry and the Burgundian and many alternate spellings including Isemburg, Ysenburg and some Walloon infantry regiments in the Mons-Valenciennes area Issembourg) had been in Spanish
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