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10mm Mortiem Et Gloriam, Senguko Samurai vs Vikings

Second warm-up game for Reading Warfare, using Si Hall’s Mortiem et Gloriam rules (MeG) which we have all very much enjoyed this year.
I was using my Uesgui Senguko Samurai, whereas Nick was using his Vikings for the very first time.
So, sword and spear armed wallies vs sword and spear armed wallies*, what could possibly go wrong!
All troops are Pendraken; Samurai and Vikings all 10mm, and looking sweet!

The board, as Nick was defending, was ‘Very Dense Coastal’, with a waterway, which proceeded to swallow 6 pieces of terrain, hills, towns, forests, all submerged! So, for very dense terrain, it was really very open!
I had managed to get a hill on my back line, and a wood in the right flank, Nick got a steep hill on.
(Graham & Mark on the next table playing 40k)

A view down the Viking line, pretty impressive stuff Nick!

Turn one, I dealt the firsthand, and as the cards were given out, my Allied general’s cards had to be dealt face up, just in case he was unreliable.

He was!
Drat!
I was in trouble!
HELP!

Nick had deployed as far forward as he could reach, I was practically on the baseline. He was closing fast, and I had inactive troops. My cavalry had to come out from behind the hill, my bow armed Samurai and a unit of Ashugari sprang nimbly from their wood, and promptly needed many cards to sort themselves out! I had made a pig’s ear of this, and it looked like I was in trouble.

Could I pull this one back, I tried to get my boys forward as Nick's 13 units looked like they were about to envelope my boys!


Nick threw in a charge against my cavalry. My cavalry are skilled shooters, with power bow, and their first shot was, erm, rather brutal! And there was another wound on the next green dice too! Nick had lost three stands from 9 in the opening salvo. Maybe this was not going badly after all.

Oh look, it’s the red card my allies needed to come on line!
Phew!

On my right, my infantry sorted themselves out, my cavalry evaded his foot (fired for effect, rolled a six, so +1 to their movement, +/-1 for Superior), and my allied foot came forwards into a coherent line, Nick was coming in en echelon, could I hold against this approaching steamroller?


CLASH! The right hand unit of Nick's had embedded beserkers, superior and +2 for devastating charge, they could have torn a massive hole in my weakest unit (a 6 of average ashugari), nail biting stuff.
Nick missed!

My bow armed cavalry continued to snipe Nicks Vikings, causing a kill, and a wound on a superior huscarl unit approaching behind.

On the right, my archers came out from their barricades, and joining my guard archers, started to pick on Nick's other units, yup that was another 9, taking hits! Meanwhile, my spears were taking hits from Nick's skirmishers that had snuck up the steep hill.

One of Nick's units was shot away, Nick charged my unit of ashugari with his superior housecarls, I had to swing my guards around to try and drag him down. In this ensuing combat, my Commander, Fluffy, took 3 hits, and survived all three without a wound!

I charged Nick's wounded unit and they broke, the nextdoor Huscarls were also gravely wounded. I broke through with one unit, the other, which had contacted his huscarls, broke off. sweet! Those Huscarls were now going to get shot to pieces by the bow armed ashugari to the right!

Meanwhile, three units were desperately holding off against six units of Nick's foot. I couldn't miss, he couldn't hit, but worryingly, his huscarls were about to crash my Samurai's flanks, could I hold out?
 
Charge!

That's a LOT of 10mm! Note the comparative losses, me, not much, Nick, huge!

There goes another Huscarl unit!

My cavalry starts to turn the flank, these boys averaged +6, but they missed!

My samurai on the flank broke, but I caught Nick in the back with my cavalry.

Nick threw another unit of Huscarls (he had 4 sixes of them, ouch) into my Guards, trying to drag them down.

The last moments, Nicks far left unit broke, and his army collapsed.

15-2 to the Samurai.

*Whalley is my maternal Grandparents name, and when my aunt had her DNA tested a few years back, it was found a large portion was Viking, so, yes, we really do have Viking Whalley’s in the family!

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