Trying something new with Lion Rampant Dave A organised the game and the figures used are from his and Dave B’s collection.
There were two main forces, the first was Sir William Everard-Cock (me) and Sir Walter Weasley’s (“uncle Albert” Julian) bands versus Sir Sydney Snydley (Dave B) and Sir Philip De le Pheu (Paul). But to complicate proceedings a third team was thrown into the mix was a band of outlaws (Alan) who were looking to take advantage of the situation for a bit of daylight robbery. Dave A provided the umpiring services.
Each warband could gain glory for differing victory conditions from killing enemy units to stealing herds of animals or killing an opponent’s leader.
The main action was to take place around an island whose ownership was disputed by Sir William and Sir Sydney.
Taking advantage of the manoeuvring of the other factions the outlaws rush straight for the island and the flocks of animals peacefully grazing there.
Sir Walter dispatches his foot retainers to dissuade the peasants from removing the herds but is ignored.
On my flank Sir William and Sir Philip’s forces face off and start to exchange fire. To force the issue Sir William advances across the river. Will this be a mistake? Challenges and insults between the leaders are exchanged but with little effect.
On the hill the outlaws have control of both the flock of sheep and the herd of cattle but can see the approaching retainers. The outlaws warrior unit gives up on worrying the sheep and charges the retainers driving them back.
At the same time Sir Walters troops exchange shots with Sir Sydney’s troops on the far side of the river while Sir Walter moves up to support his retainers.
With his troops taking casualties from shooting by both Sir Walter’s and the Outlaw bands he does the honourable thing and hides behind his retainers.
On the other flank Sir William and Sir Philip engage in combat that does not go well for Sir William!
After his foot retinue have been defeated by the outlaws, he leads his knights forward to teach them a lesson. However, this does not end well with Sir Walter perishing in the engagement.
Sir William is now sat in splendid isolation in front of his foot retinue and is soon killed as the “last man” standings in his unit 😭.
Shortly after this the game was called. Now for my side things had not gone well with both Sir William and Sir Walter meeting grisly ends. But what about the overall glory scores?
Robin (Alan) and his outlaws managed a score of 5 Glory.
Sir Sydney (Dave B), Sir Philip (Paul) and Sir Walter (“Uncle Albert”) all managed 3 Glory.
While Sir William (me) brought up the rear with a measly 2 glory (but better than the zero I scored in the recent MTWBK game recently).
Congratulations to Alan for the win and also to Dave A for organising an entertaining game.
The Uncivil Servant 