SITUATION/SCENARIO
Norse Vikings attacking… er… Norse Irish?
FORCES
Norse Irish (III/46)
1x Auxilia General
5x Auxilia
4x Psiloi
2x Blade
Norse Viking (III/40b)
1x Blade General
10x Blade
1x Warband
THE GAME
I rolled a two for deployment – adding my whopping aggression factor of one – it was determined I would be defending as the total was less than the Vikings aggression factor witout even rolling the dice. Still lacking some waterway tiles, I lined up a river along one side and said that everything one the other side of the river was water too… I threw out the maximum terrain nastiness to try and break up the Viking shield wall and we went at it!
(Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)
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With some lucky PIP dice at the outset the Irish dashed for the marsh and woods!
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Gary was pretty conservative with his deployment – trying really hard to keep his line together and not expose any flanks.
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More maneuvering in the marsh
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Oh what a mess.
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Finally the Blade and Warband near the coastline clash.
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The first clash was pretty inconclusive. Bit of shoving back and forth…
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The lines draw ever nearer.
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Garry got a high PIP roll and brought nearly all his line into contact – there was a bit of pushing back and forth – mostly the Irish being pushed back…
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But I also lost some Auxilia in the process… Irish down one.
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More shoving back and forth.
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I realized my blade out on the end of the line could actually benefit from some Psiloi support against the Warband.
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Alas they arrived too late… Irish down two.
Once again however my general was stuck in the line – overlapped on both sides. To take off the pressure I advanced the blade in – but that brought them into side edge contact with the Warband. So I moved the Psiloi into contact with the warband – I thought this a rather clever move as I figured the warband would beat the psiloi and follow them back – out of side edge contact with my Blade. Unfortunately the Psioloi beat the warband and they recoiled into a postion where they still overlapped the blade… ah well…
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Things went south at the other end of the line when a stand of Auxilia was cought by three Blade in the woods and utterly destroyed! Irish down three!
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The General exposed again – alone against the Viking line…
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…was finally defeated… Irish down four, including the General. Viking losses: zero…
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Psiloi fleeing from the smelly Vikings
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The view of things after the battle.
Defeated again… and didn’t even take any with them like they did against John… Ah well…
Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:
I’ve been mostly working on sculpting when I’ve had hobby time. Though after tonight’s battle I’m keen (again) to get a few waterway tiles (and some more marshes) finished…