Slow-Mo Piquet: Game 4, turn 2 - 3

We continue the ballet moves to unfold the battle lines from turn 1. 

There are no changes to the sequence decks yet.

Turn 2, phase 1, roll 1: 20:13, 5:2 pips.

Empire turn and use native mobility for the Grenzers. Then turn inf move and move right and left wings.

Prussians turn two duds.

Roll 2: 4:5, Prussians turn deployment.

Roll 3: 13:17, 1:3 pips.

Prussians use the deployment to form the leading Frei batallion into skirmish formation. Then turn (and skip) cav move, then a difficult move.

Empire move up the rear.

Roll 4: 19:8, the remaining 8 pips go to the Empire who turn 2 useless cards and a maneuver and use that to turn the leading two Mainz batallions into line formation (I'll be generous and let them do that on one pip for the two units from the same group).

Then turn 3 duds and officer check.

The Prussian right wing starts to appear, led by the skirmishing Wunsch Frei-infantry and the Dragoons.

At the end of turn 2, phase 1, the Reichsarmee has more units on the table as both wings entered in two parallel columns. Right wing in front is led by the dragoons, followed by Mainz Grenadiers &Co. Left wing is led by the 2/ to 4/ bat. of Kurmainz infantry.

Phase 2, roll 1: 11:17, 2:4 pips

Prussians use three pips to move all three wings. Then turn Native mobility (not needed anymore as Wunsch won't advance more).

Empire pull their HQ back a bit in the face of th Prussian Freikorps, then turn dud.

Roll 2: 9:6, 2:1 pips

Empire turn difficult move, move their left wing first. 

Prussians turn Inf Move.

Roll 3: 7:9, 2 Prussian pips move the right and left wing.

Roll 4: 6:19, the remaining 9 pips go to the Prussians who move their rear, turn officer check for no action, 2 duds, a cav move they will skip, a dud, a maneuver used for 1 pip to form line with the right wing dragoons, and two reloads.

Phase 3, roll 1: 13:10, 2:1 pips. 

Empire move the right wing and reserve. 

Prussians turn difficult move.

Roll 2: 19:7, 8:4 pips.

Empire move the left wing. Turn and use inf move, starting with the left wing, then right wing and reserve. Turn cav move but skip it to keep the dragoons in the right wing group. Turn elites reload.

Prussians continue their move, and turn a dud.

Roll 3: 16:15, Empire use one pip to turn Dress Lines

Roll 4: 2:1, Empire turn dud

Roll 5: 20:10, the last 3 pips go to the Empire who turn Cav Move, another cav move and reload to end the phase.

Phase 4, roll 1: 9:20, 3:8 pips.

Prussians turn officer check twice, dud, maneuver. Maneuver the right wing infantry units into line formation. Turn dud, reload, heroic moment for... we'll see.

Empire turn Info move, move their right wing and reserve.

Roll 2: 19:8, the remaining 9 pips are 8:1.

Empire turn dud, officer check, reload, dud, heroic moment for a diff. move. Form line with the right wing cavalry with a heroic double move to threaten the Prussien columns, and Grenadiers, march up the rest.

Prussians turn a heroic cav move. They might have to use that to bring up their left wing cavalry to protect their infantry deployment...

Phase 5, roll 1: 10:14, 1:3 pips.

Prussians split off the Hussars from their left wing and let them do a double move. Then turn infantry move :(, and move up the left wing (leaving the reserve a move behind).

Empire choose not to end the turn yet (they only have one card left), but use the open difficult move for their right wing.

The first fire fight breaks out on the Empire left between two batallions of Kurmainz and the Prussian free Infantry of Wunsch.

Roll 2: 15:4, 8:3 pips. Empire move up their reserves, and advance their left wing to within firing distance of the Wunsch Frei infantry. As they march up, Wunsch uses an opportunity pip to fire at the 4th Kurmainz batallion on the right. They fire D10 d1 for medium range u1 for 1st fire, for 2:5 and no effect.

The two right most Kurmainz batallions fire back. 4th bat. on the right fires D8 u1 1st fire, d1 medium range, d2 for skirmishing target, D4:D6 for 1:4 no effect, the 2nd bat. in the middle rolls 4:4 also for no effect.

Empire then turn their last card, cav melee, to end the 3rd turn.

The table from the perspective of the last Prussians marching on the table (except for the reserve which is one move behind). the Empire Dragoons are dangerously close to the Prussian fusiliers still marching in column formation.