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The English portion of the Allied army breaches the French line. Note how the similarity of some uniforms on both sides makes it a bit difficult to tell which unit is on which side. Many troops get shaken in the process. Note the disordered Allied units at the top of the pic. They ran away from the English forcing the French to bring up fresh troops. Note: This is an update on my play of a wargame I set up back in May . There is a word for how military units moved around on the field of battle in the mid-18th century, at the dawn of modern warfare. Clunky. But the clunkiness was worth it. The advantage of lining up a formation of infantry firing muskets about 100 yards or less distance from the enemy was significant. Linear infantry tactics ultimately dominated the battlefield until the machine gun became common and the tank was invented. But let's review a bit of military history for a moment to understand why a clunky line of muskets was such a revolution in warfar