3 pm October 4, 1636, South of Wittstock

[MengJiao]

  Nobody is really quite sure what exactly happened at this battle, except that it was an extraordinarly bloody mess.  I'm still puzzled though I have just read over the letters by Baner to Queen Christina, King and Lesilie (later leading troops on opposing sides at Marston Moor) to Charles I and the Chancelor of Sweden.  In the end, it is not even certain who commanded the Imperial forces (Hatzfeld, Marasini or Johan Georg?)... the GMT version of events puts no one in command on the Imperial side which seems about right.  According to King there was a certain amount of mutiny on the Swedish side and Ruthven and King led the final (victorious) attacks after various Swedes gave up and signaled retreat.  On the other hand, GMT has Torstenssen in command on the Swedish side while everyone was was there seems to have thought Baner was in charge.  GMT has the mutinous Vizthum in charge of the reserve and King and Leslie say it was Ruthven who actually led that force.  Anyway -- 3pm and the Scots wing of the Swedish army and all the Swedish artillery arrive on a hill behind the Imperialist entrenchments triggering a mob scene  ... that much seems to have actually happened:

[al_infierno]

Cool stuff, thanks for posting!  O0

[MengJiao]

Cool stuff, thanks for posting!  O0

   Thanks!  I think I have sort of worked some things out.  Aldringer will stand in for Marazzino (who was either killed or wounded -- not killed apparently since he{Marazzino}  was still alive in 1639 and well enough to be court-martialed for another disaster).  Torstenssen is said to have "commanded the artillery" in some sources, so
I've put him on the hill with the artillery and the advanced guard.  Baner is on his right with the advanced cavalry force and Leslie is on his left facing the winery and the "gap" which might be the area Gimmelshausen described graphically after the battle in Simplississimus.  King and Ruthven are off the map with the flanking force and the reserve respectively.  If they don't turn up (which is more or less what happened historically), then Baner, Torstenssen and Leslie are outnumbered at roughy 2 to 1.  So we'll see how that goes.  Maybe Marazzino will do better as Aldringer (in Bavarian Costume it seems):

[MengJiao]

  But things start to spiral even farther out of control for the Imperialists.  Baner charges (unwise I thought, but he had two die-throws not to do it) and then Marazzoni tries the same thing, but unfortunately
King's flanking cavalry are arriving very early, coming in hot around the Hottenberg, right behind Marazzoni (under a charge marker):