Essentially we set up a 6 x 4 tale depicting a Saxon villiage which the Vikings would naturally want to attack and loot. There were three major objectives, which could each be attacked by two Viking warbands. This gave us a scalable game depending on how many players there were. The objectives were the Church (and its gold and relics), the village (good plunder and slaves) and the great hall (plunder and the illegitimate sprog of King Hagar the Horrible, who he wants back).
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| Either it was a good game, or it was a convenient stop next to the lavatory... |
Essentially, each objective had a Fyrd defending it with poorly equipped peasants, but strongly armed Saxon reinforcements (either Huscarls or Mounted warriors) were sure to arrive shortly after the alarm was raised, so the Norsemen had to be quick about it. I must admit that we were too busy playing the game to take too many pic, but here are some pictures of how it turned out...
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| We even managed to interest one of those rare Lady gamers! |
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| A Saxon watch mans the pallisade walls |
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| And sentries patrol the perimeter |
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| Bugger... |
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| The gate is breached! |
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| Defend the Holy relics! |
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| Shield walls clash |
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| Little Pig, Little Pig, let us come in! |
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| The Saxon village |
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...which is hotly contested by its citizens!
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| The professional raider at work! |
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| A good time had by all! |
Hi Paul,
ReplyDeleteIt looks superb! Really captured the Dark Age village thing nicely so a good job all round.
Not sure about the orange hi-vis vest though...;-)
All the best,
DC
I'm glad it was a success, good pictures and lady gamers as well!
ReplyDeleteLooks like a good day of gameing.
ReplyDeleteFabulous! Lovely scenery, great photos. I'm still struggling with my close up shots.
ReplyDeleteWow! Looks like a good time and you managed to recruit some of the Australian Road Crews to stop working on the local roads to go plundering on your boards!
ReplyDeleteThat looks great.
ReplyDeleteAnd good to see a genuine participation game, where visitors get to sit down and actually play.
Tom
Great looking game! Well laid out I especially like your church.
ReplyDeleteExcellent looking skirmish - and looks like great fun!
ReplyDeleteWonderful looking table, I always enjoy your terrain. It looks like the game was alot of fun.
ReplyDeletePaul
ReplyDeleteLooks like a great game - love the village!
PF
Looks great! Hopefully more converts to the Dark (Age) side. And you got a picture of the elusive lady gamer.
ReplyDeleteLovely scenery as always. Looks like it was a cracking game.
ReplyDeleteLooks like it was a lot of fun. Grat table and great miniatures.
ReplyDeletecheers
Looking nice ! seems like you had a good day of gaming !
ReplyDeletebest regards dalauppror
Excellent Paul!! Lovely photos of a great looking game.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great looking setup and game, very well done Sir!!
ReplyDeleteI tried looking for your game when I was there Paul, but I just couldn't find it.... I found some other dude doing a dark ages game, I thought you were a no show. Ah well, it looks like you had a great set up there.
ReplyDeleteGreat looking game Paul, both minis and terrain look great!
ReplyDeleteI think I begin to fancy Dark Ages games! This looks so great!
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