Lion Rampant: the Convoy

 For today's game of Lion Rampant we played 'the Convoy' scenario. The dice decided that Ian's later Irish/Norse force would be escorting the 3 wagons diagonally across the board whilst Nigel and I would command the Norman's who were trying to capture the wagons. 

Fulcard, the Norman leader rides past my Viking turn counter on his way to the game. 

Fulcard turned out to be a total waste of time only getting to move twice in a game lasting 16 turns...yes, he really was that bad. 

Ian placed an elite heavy unit of vikings in charge of the wagons. These guys never failed an activation all game and kept those wagons moving. 

Fulcard with some of his men arrive on the battlefield. The normans had to place at least 4 points worth of troops in each of the three other corners that the Irish Norse force. On reflection, Nigel and I could have placed our troops in a much better way than we actually did.  

The start of the rot, a double one to activate the Norman spearmen to move, the first of 4 double '1's I scored during the activation phase of the game.

Over view of the mid-way part of the game. Spot the convoy top left, just off centre. The norman problem of struggling to activate has allowed the Irish Norse to march unchallenged halfway to their exit point. 

Over on the far left Nigel's Norman troops took on a few Irish Norse units left behind to slow us down. We just could not get our troops in place to stall his progress and a few turns later Ian gleefully marched the wagons off the exit point with hardly any shooting or melee having happened. The only consolation for the Normans was that we did manage to finally get into position to prevent any other Irish Norse troops leave the board. 

Ian made good use of his light cavalry throughout the game although we did manage to see them off with Nigel getting the Norman light cavalry to outmanoeuvre the Irish/Norse light cavalry.  

So it was an early finish today but we all enjoyed the game despite some frustrating dice throws at times.