Tonight's game vs Jarkko. Using his amazing 28mm 100 Years War collection. We used Warband rules, but no magic and both using 'Dragon Men' lists.
I opted for the French (trying to break out of my Anglo-centric attitudes when wargaming).
My List
Lord D6+1
3 x Men-at-arms (fierce & impetuous)
2 x crossbows
1 x archers (powerful) - Scots Archers
2 Mounted Knights (fierce, impetuous and powerful)
2 Foot Knights (resolute)
Jarkko's English
Lord D6+2
5 x Archers (powerful)
2 x Foot knights (resolute)
1 x Mounted Knights
1 x Mounted Borderers (skirmish)
Jarkko rolled 'Find The Prize', each terrain piece has a counter on it, on a roll of 6 it's some treasure or holy relic. In this case, it was St Francis's Mother's Fingernail! Jarkko chose three hills, as he was providing the terrain, I chose a village, a road and a marsh (technically illegal in this scenario, but since Jarkko had already brought them, how could I refuse)! However, two of the three hills Jarkko brought did not appear on table!!! The possible site of relics were in the middle of the village, the marsh and the central hill.
Initial deployments and moves, On my right, I faced Jarkko's knights with mine, and my archers, a crossbow unit and a unit of Men-at Arms. He stacked his foot knights behind his archers to search the objective on the hill, and then I was faced in the centre with his massive fire-line!
Jarkko's Earl of Northampton showing how committed he was to this encounter!
Jarkko's foot knights searched the village (it was empty, but the knights rather enjoyed the local hostelry and brothel), and his borderers crushed my crossbows who were searching the marsh (off camera, left) and had come up empty handed, only to be flanked and eventually destroyed by a unit of my spears hitting them in the flank and forcing them off table.
I managed to charge his mounted knights with both my spears and one of my Mounted knights, crushing them! After searching the village, his other foot knights tried to charge my mounted knights, but I caught them in the rear and crushed them! Meanwhile Jarkko had reveled that the objective was on the hill, but his bows that discovered it were broken by concentrated firepower from my crossbows and archers.
My spears went beyond the hill and turned to face Jarkko's foot knights as they turned and came off the hill to face us! His foot knights disintegrated outside the village, but my Scot's archers fled from his retaliatory massed bow-fire. I then tried a new tactic, my Duc rallied them!
The simultaneous high and low water mark of the battle, all units were committed, both armies were on the verge of breaking, what would happen? Who would hold the Holy Fingernail of Saint Francis's Mum?
Knights charged bows, bows charged knights, the sky was darkened by arrows and quills, it was all in!
And it was all out as both armies simultaneously shattered and broke! Looks like the villagers will keep hold of the relic on the hill, and the local price of scrap metal has just dropped through the floor!
Another great game, lots of rolls that were met with many gasps of disbelief. Tweaks will be needed for real historical games, but it played really well.
And I've still not won a game of Warband!!!
I opted for the French (trying to break out of my Anglo-centric attitudes when wargaming).
My List
Lord D6+1
3 x Men-at-arms (fierce & impetuous)
2 x crossbows
1 x archers (powerful) - Scots Archers
2 Mounted Knights (fierce, impetuous and powerful)
2 Foot Knights (resolute)
Jarkko's English
Lord D6+2
5 x Archers (powerful)
2 x Foot knights (resolute)
1 x Mounted Knights
1 x Mounted Borderers (skirmish)
Jarkko rolled 'Find The Prize', each terrain piece has a counter on it, on a roll of 6 it's some treasure or holy relic. In this case, it was St Francis's Mother's Fingernail! Jarkko chose three hills, as he was providing the terrain, I chose a village, a road and a marsh (technically illegal in this scenario, but since Jarkko had already brought them, how could I refuse)! However, two of the three hills Jarkko brought did not appear on table!!! The possible site of relics were in the middle of the village, the marsh and the central hill.
Initial deployments and moves, On my right, I faced Jarkko's knights with mine, and my archers, a crossbow unit and a unit of Men-at Arms. He stacked his foot knights behind his archers to search the objective on the hill, and then I was faced in the centre with his massive fire-line!
Jarkko's Earl of Northampton showing how committed he was to this encounter!
Jarkko's foot knights searched the village (it was empty, but the knights rather enjoyed the local hostelry and brothel), and his borderers crushed my crossbows who were searching the marsh (off camera, left) and had come up empty handed, only to be flanked and eventually destroyed by a unit of my spears hitting them in the flank and forcing them off table.
I managed to charge his mounted knights with both my spears and one of my Mounted knights, crushing them! After searching the village, his other foot knights tried to charge my mounted knights, but I caught them in the rear and crushed them! Meanwhile Jarkko had reveled that the objective was on the hill, but his bows that discovered it were broken by concentrated firepower from my crossbows and archers.
My spears went beyond the hill and turned to face Jarkko's foot knights as they turned and came off the hill to face us! His foot knights disintegrated outside the village, but my Scot's archers fled from his retaliatory massed bow-fire. I then tried a new tactic, my Duc rallied them!
The simultaneous high and low water mark of the battle, all units were committed, both armies were on the verge of breaking, what would happen? Who would hold the Holy Fingernail of Saint Francis's Mum?
Knights charged bows, bows charged knights, the sky was darkened by arrows and quills, it was all in!
And it was all out as both armies simultaneously shattered and broke! Looks like the villagers will keep hold of the relic on the hill, and the local price of scrap metal has just dropped through the floor!
And I've still not won a game of Warband!!!
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