it was Dark Age again, 28mm, Hail Caesar, me and Bart's Norman and Viking collection,
Mike (as the Vikings) and Tim (as a Norman Duke) and myself as his Norman Baron, were trying to get past the castle in the dunes and unite with our fellow mercenaries from the north. Bart and David (as theother Norman Duke and Retinue) tried to prevent that.
Well ... they had a little bit more units than we did, but who cares, it's a dark age, who actually counts the troops before battle.
The second massive handicap was that somehow our wild ancestores from the north, didn't really made it out of their beautiful (and newly painted) Viking ships, for 3 turns!! By the 4th the battle was effectively over already.
The third and last reson we lost was, that Duke Tim, our overall leader, decided to go in historically appropriate, and let cavalry fight against the weaker infantry. Unfortunately Barts cavalry was nearer to my infantry than Tims knights were away from Davids infantry on the hill. The fact that he didn't roll so good as a commander and consecutively his knights slugged forward, while Barts knights zoomed in like lightning, highlightedonly the fact that we had also the wrong tactic.
Two blunder later (on each side), my flank was gone, while Tims knights were still miles away from the enemy and the Vikings just did not move - we surrendered! Game over! Congratulations to Bart and David! After the second turn it was looking not so good, after the third it was looking very bad, after the 4th it was impossible - very well executed victory!
We will do this again...
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Initial set up
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| My infantry line... in shield wall |
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| Barts cavalry attacks ... |
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| from the castle ... |
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| While David holds the other dune ... |
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| And the Vikings landing ... |
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| First I repelled some of the cavalry ... |
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| still the vikings did not move ... |
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| The tower was firm in Barts and Davids hands... |
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| then Bart blundered and I had to move fwd ... |
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| Out of my shiled wall ... |
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| it split our line and made me vulnerable ... |
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| While the Vikings .... |
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| Then the cavalry attack came ... |
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| My foot knights counter attacked ... |
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| and thus were counter attacked ... |
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| Slowly lost and encicled ... |
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| was a lasts stand of my left over division ... we gave up! |
