Refighting The Battle Of Dettigen (part five)

TURN SEVEN
I rolled a better, but still below-average, 3-2-2.
In front of Dettingen I continued advancing, with the Prinz von Sachsen-Hildburghausen Foot getting close enough to open fire on the Normandie Foot, but inflicting no damage.
The two rearguard pips I used to get the Royal Foot to advance and fire a volley at the Champagne Foot, reducing the French by 25% effectiveness (they were to pass their morale test).
Noailles rolled 5-1-3.
The French gun at Dettingen fired canister at the Prinz von Sachsen-Hildburghausen Foot, scoring two hits and so reducing their effectiveness to 25%. This remnant was quickly finished off by a volley from the Normandie Foot that produced overkill in scoring three hits.
Noailles used his one south-bank pip to continue moving the Bercheny Hussars (they need to spend two turns moving off the table before being allowed to rejoin on the north bank).
In Aschaffenburg he continued advancing the Touraine Foot and the Colonel-Général Cavalerie through the town, saving the last pip for the Champagne Foot to fire at the Royal Foot. They scored one hit, which I was not too upset about. But then the Royal Foot, despite being an elite unit and so only needing a 2 to hold steady, failed their morale test, thus losing a further 25% effectiveness and causing them to turn and flee.

Looking from Aschaffenburg … the fleeing Royal Foot can be seen in the middle-distance near Kleinostheim

Army points remaining at the end of turn seven: Pragmatic, 16 of 20; French, 24 of 26.
TURN EIGHT
I rolled 3-6-3 - hurrah!
The gun at Dettingen fired at the Normandie Foot, but a potential hit turned out not to have any effect. For the rest of the Dettingen pips, I advanced troops as I could, but keeping out of the range of French musketry. In particular I manoeuvred the King's Own Horse to be in position to charge the bridge and attack the Cuirassiers du Roi.
My attempt to rally the Royal Foot retreating from Aschaffenburg failed, meaning they fled a further move.
That left me with two Aschaffenburg action points (an attempted rally costs a pip, but the compulsory retreat does not). I used one to fire the howitzer at the Champagne Foot, scoring a hit (they only rolled a 2 for their subsequent morale test, but held steady thanks to rear support from the Touraine Foot).
The other pip I used to wheel the von Zastrow Foot to the right so they would be in position to attack, depending on circumstances, the Champagne Foot or the Bretagne Cavalerie.
Noailles rolled 5-1-2.
First he fired his Dettingen gun at the von Klinkowström Foot, but for a change the gunners' aim was off.
The only other Dettingen pip he used was to send the Cuirassiers du Roi over the bridge on a pre-emptive charge against the King's Own Horse. Being on a bridge does not count as 'higher ground', but the French did not need it, scoring three hits to the British one (even the one was nearly wiped out, when the cuirassiers' saving throw for wearing cuirasses came up 5, just one short). Worst was to follow when the surviving King's Own Horse failed their morale test, losing their remaining 25% effectiveness.
The south-bank pip was used to fire the gun at the von Aldeleben Dragoons, whose advanced had taken them into the gun's arc. A potential git was scored, but it did no harm.
At Aschaffenburg the French used one pip to send the Champagne Foot in the general direction of Kleinostheim and the fleeing Royal Foot, but obliquely away from the Austrian battery. The other pip was used to finish getting the Touraine Foot across the Aschaffenburg tributary bridge.

A bridge too far … for the King's Own Horse, but not for the Cuirassiers du Roi

Army points remaining at the end of turn eight: Pragmatic, 15 of 20; French, 24 of 26.
TURN NINE
I rolled 3-6-2.
My main-body gun scored a hit on the Normandie Foot, but it was negated by a behind-cover saving throw. The von Klinkowström Foot advanced and fired at the blue-coated Alsace Foot, but rolled a pair of 1s. But the main action came when the von Aldeleben Dragoons charged the Cuirassiers du Roi. The dragoons scored two hits with their four dice, but one was negated by a saving throw; the cuirassiers scored one hit with their three dice, so the melee was tied.
With the rearguard, I had to use one pip to try, in vain, to rally the Royal Foot. The other I used to fire the howitzer at the Touraine Foot, who suffered a hit but passed their subsequent morale test.
Noailles rolled an unnecessarily stupendous 5-6-4.
He fired canister at the von Klinkowström Foot, scoring two potential hits, but neither caused harm. The Alsace Foot, however, despite only being allowed to roll two dice because of their deep formation, caused by being squeezed between the marsh and the Normandie Foot, did score a hit, reducing the von Klinkowström Foot to 25% effectiveness. The Hanoverians clung on by later passing their morale test.
A second round of meleeing at Dettingen Bridge saw the apparently exhausted troopers on both sides fail to score a hit, which was also true of the gun with Noailles when it fired at the Prié-Turinetti Foot.
Nothing of great interest happened in this half-turn at Aschaffenburg, although the Touraine Foot got into firing order, presumably ready to advance on the depleted Pragmatic reargaurd.

Locked in combat … French cuirassiers and Hanoverian dragoons at Dettingen Bridge