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| Royalist Dragoon waving his musket about |
1642: September/October
After what seems like many days of lack of information for each of the opposing command teams in Oxford & London, finally word comes through of significant Royalist strategic movements.
Firstly, German born, Prince Ruprecht of the Elbe moves his forces from the Upper Thames Valley region to that of the West Midland, this is the closely followed by the Italian stallion - Giovanni da Verrazano - moving his forces to the Yorkshire region via the newly secured East Midlands region.
In the West Midlands, Prince Ruprecht's force took control of the Pro-Royalist tows/cities of Chester & Shrewsbury, whilst in Yorkshire Giovanni's forces got control of pro-Royalist locations of Newcastle & York as well as the pro-Parliament port of Hull.
As noted, enemy leaders in London eventually become aware of Giovanni & the Prince's movements - but they have no indication of his relative strength of these forces or if any garrisons have been set-up in either region, as far as they are concerned at present, both Royalist forces remain in the field.
Strategic initiative now passes to the Parliamentary Team, where Sir Bevill Dedge is cogitating on his first move.
Campaign Materials sourced from Steven Bagalan / Map by Peter Davies
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