Refighting The Battle Of Dettingen (part four)

TURN FOUR
My action points were two 1s for the main body, and a 2 for the rearguard.
I sent the King's Own Horse forward so they would take any firing from the gun with Noailles (something similar happened in the real battle, or at least the British horse advanced at the same time as the frontline foot, and so it was the cavalry that got fired at rather than the infantry. I should have done the same thing, as if Dettingen is to be captured, it will likely be done by infantry rather than cavalry).
I ordered the Prinz von Sachsen-Hildburghausen Foot forward from the second line but, perhaps understandably, they dragged their feet about it (I rolled 1 for the move variation, which reduced their forward progress to 4.5cm).
The rearguard gun fired at and hit the Poitou Foot, reducing their effectiveness by 25%. They rolled a 2 on their subsequent morale test, but rear support from the Champagne battalion meant they held steady. With my other rearguard pip, I ordered the Royal Foot to advance on the Poitou.
Noailles rolled 1, 2 and 4 for Dettingen, the south bank and Aschaffenburg respectively.
He used the 1 to fire the Dettingen gun at the von Klinkowström Foot, scoring a potential hit but inflicting no casualties.
The gun with Noallies fired at the King's Own Horse. A roll of 2 quartered to 0.5 potential hits. Noailles successfully turned that into a potential hit, but it did no harm. The other pip he used to continue the Bercheny Hussars towards the pontoon bridges, which they did enthusiastically (they covered 15cm thanks to a move-variation throw of 6).
The Poitou Foot advanced and fired at the Royal Foot, but their dice throws of 4-3-1 (only three dice because they are at 75% effectiveness) were not enough once the -1 modifier for moving was taken into account. The other two rearguard pips were used to advance the Champagne and Touraine Foot.

Looking … from Kleinostheim at the Royal Foot and Poitou Foot advancing on each other, with the Champagne Foot to Poitou's rear

TURN FIVE
I rolled 1-3-1, using the first 1 to fire my main-body gun at extreme roundshot range at the Normandie Foot in Dettingen. I rolled a 5, which quartered gave me 1.25 potential hits. That rounded down to one, but I could only roll a 3 when trying to turn it into an actual hit.
With the 3 pips I advanced the Prinz von Sachsen-Hildburghausen Foot, attached King George to the Prié-Turinetti Foot (this will save him needing a separate action point to move) and re-limbered the gun, since I had earlier unlimbered it too early for it to have an effective arc of fire for long.
The 1 for the rearguard I used to get the Royal Foot to open fire on the Poitou Foot, and they did so with devastating effect, scoring three hits, meaning the French battalion disappeared from the table as it had already lost 25% effectiveness to artillery fire.
Noailles rolled 5-2-1. He only had use for one of Gramont's pips, but the Dettingen artillery battery again came up trumps when it scored 1.5 potential hits on the von Klinkowström Foot. The 1.5 became two, and both potential hits became actual hits - another 47-1 shot!
By contrast, the artillery on the south bank fired at but missed the King's Own Horse. Noailles used his other south-bank pip to continue sending the Bercheny Hussars towards the pontoon bridges.
The single Aschaffenburg pip was used to put the Champagne Foot in firing order.
Thankfully, for me anyway, the von Klinkowström Foot survived passed their mandatory morale test with flying colours by rolling a 6.

Vantage point … the Duke of Noailles' hilltop view of the allied advance on Dettingen (just before the von Klinkowström Foot in the distance lost 50% effectiveness)

Close-up … the over-achieving French artillery in Dettingen

Army points at the end of turn five: the Pragmatic army has 18 of 20pts remaining; the French army has 24 of 26pts.
TURN SIX
I rolled 2-1-2, using the first two sets of action points to continue my slow advance on Dettingen (perhaps I should point out, for those of a cynical mind, that my opponent and I were using the same dice - but not to the same effect!).
The rearguard gun was masked by the Royal Foot from firing at the Champagne Foot, so instead fired at the Bretagne Cavalerie north of Aschaffenburg, causing them to lose 25% effectiveness (they were to easily pass their subsequent morale test). The other rearguard pip was used to advance the von Zastrow Foot 7.5cm (thanks to rolling a 6 for move variation).
Noailles rolled 1-2-5. He used the 1 to get the Dettingen artillery to switch targets and successfully fire at the Prinz von Sachsen-Hildburghausen Foot, causing them to lose 25% effectiveness (they were to easily pass the necessary morale test).
The gun with Noailles again failed to score a hit on the King's Own Horse, and the Bercheny Hussars finally exited the table to reach the pontoon bridges.
Noailles used three of his five Aschaffenburg pips to advance the surviving infantry and the Colonel-Général Cavalerie. He left the Bretagne Cavalerie where they were as they were masked from the Austrian gun by the von Zastrow Foot who, despite their quick-paced advance, were out of musket range. To his chagrin, Noailles found the Poitou Foot were also agonisingly just too far away from being able to fire at the Royal Foot.

Looking down … from the Spessart foothills to the French position around Dettingen