A quick game of Wars of the Roses

 With Ian and I spending some time sorting through the 'Old School' Fantasy figures recently gifted to me by an 'old school' friend (see upcoming blog on that subject for more info) we decided to just play a quick, 2 divisions per side game with randomly generated leaders and forces. We used some of the suggestions in the excellent Wars of the Roses supplement to help us. I let Ian arrange some simple terrain then we diced for deployment and set too. 

Ian and the Yorkists on the left, my Lancastrians on the right. 

Each side was allowed two divisions each of 2x Household bill and bow, 1x bow only and then we diced on a simple random chart I had created to allocate upto 2 more units per side. These could range from more household infantry to cavalry and even light artillery. This gave us two quite differing forces, probably not even the same points. 

The view from Ian's commanders position as he starts a steady advance towards me. 

Plenty of Arrow storm's were loosed to good effect by both sides.  

Ian fires his light cannon at my troops, two dice allowed needing a 5 or 6 to hit at that range. 

 Look what he threw!

My light cannon did not score a single hit all game. 

On my right flank, my commander (a newly painted command base of Sir Henry Holland) went on the attack. I expected the usual disaster from any newly painted forces.

 To my surprise he did very well. 

In the woods just visible to the left of this photo my handgunners were able to chase of Ian's bow armed light troops that were hiding in there. The handgunners then killed the artillery crew and got rid of that threat. 

There is Sir Henry Holland waving his banner having just broken the Yorkist division facing him.

Look at the fleeing Yorkists in the background, what a lovely sight!!!!  

My Lancastrian Mounted Men at Arms were told to go off on a flanking maneuver. It took me until turn 3 to actually get them moving but they soon broke the red archer unit that had turned to face them. 

With only three units left, two of which were shaken, Ian chose to withdraw his troops and concede the game. I had not lost a single unit although I did have three badly shaken units. 

Once more we had a great game with the Wars of the Roses becoming one of our favourite periods to play with the Hail Caesar rules.