Today, Tony brought down the Vikings and Saxons from the main Midgard Rulebook for us to try! - Lawrence and I randomly got the Vikings and Phil got Tony to run the Saxons. (I apologise for the picture quality as my camera hates white cloths!!!)
The game setup, the Saxons (right) can be identified by their white bases.
The Saxons deployed in 2 lines with poorer Fyrd behind and some skirmishers guarding their right flank.
The Saxon centre.
The Saxon left, again with some slingers guarding their flank.
The outnumbered Vikings had to deploy in a single line, I commanded the Bondi on the right. I had a unit of Archers guarding my right.
Lawrence had the best Vikings, and 2 units of Archer Skirmishers, he would be the attacking wing.
Lawrence started by a steady advance.
This left their right unguarded.
My only move in the first turn was to fling my Archers out on the right.
My Spearmen stood behind, biding their time!
My Archers got the early advantage, damaging the Saxon Slingers.
Lawrence's Archers destroyed the Saxon Skirmishers on their right easily.
He sent his Berserks to engage the Saxon wing frontally while his Archers went round the flank.
Amazingly, the Berserkir LOST, and, being Relentless lost more Stamina!!!
In the following phase, the same happened and the Berserkir broke!
The Saxon left started probing my wing, and I adjusted my Spearmen to counter them...and support my Archers, who were hitting nothing now!!
Lawrence sent a Huscarl unit against the Saxon nobility, and was losing, so I sent another unit in alongside to help.
The rest of Lawrence's wing now engaged.
My wing stabilised briefly, not much happened!
Finally, one of Phil's Fyrd units charged my Archers, who successfully evaded.
The Front line was being engaged by more Saxons, so I had to engage with more of my Spearmen.
Phil got another unit into the fight in the centre...
...and managed to detach my unit from the battle with the Saxon elites.
Using his Archers as a flank attack, Lawrence destroyed a Saxon Fyrd unit.
In the centre, another Fyrd unit broke.
A Saxon counter charge broke a Huscarl unit in return.
My Spearmen beat their Saxon opponents with an amazing die roll, causing 3 Stamina loss on them, but my unit was a bit shot up too!!!
At this point Phil failed to get any of his units to move!
Those Saxon Slingers tried to shoot my Archers but failed!
Un the centre Lawrence and I were pushing back the Saxons.
Lawrence's C-in-C charged a mangled unit and amazingly crushed another Saxon Fyrd unit!
At this point, the Saxons were down to 0 Reputation, so it was a Viking victory!
For once my dice were not too bad as well!!!
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