Lion Rampant, three player game of 'Meeting the Neighbours' scenario.

 Three of us enjoyed a game of Lion Rampant today. We played the 'Meeting the Neighbours' scenario; I used my usual Anglo Danes, Nigel used a Viking warband and Charlie bought his Italian themed Normans. As well as trying to exit the table through the other players deployment zone (to gain glory) I had positioned some villager and livestock bases in the village. Any player who 'collected ' one or more of these along the way and escorted them from the table gained an extra point of glory. However, straight from turn 1 the villager bases would scatter and move d6 inches in a random direction unless captured. 

As we hadn't played Lion Rampant for a while we got a some aspects of the rules wrong in the first few turns. However, from turn 3 all seemed good and the game speeded up. 

Viking Leader, Eric the Red (aka Nigel). 

Nigel played a canny game, sheltering some of his units in the central field, with his archers covering Charlies Norman escape zone. He was also very lucky as three out of the five livestock bases seemed to randomly blunder into his possession. Before the end of the game he captured another livestock base from Charlie. 

Some of Charlie's Norman cavalry. His light cavalry escaped off the board quite quickly but were down to half strength having been shot at by the Vikings. Tancred, the Norman commander spent about three turns refusing to move leaving the units in the photo to do all the work. 

Vikings hold a strong position but holding that position kept Nigel's troops in the centre. 

My Anglo Danish force took up a strong position across a line of hills. From there I carefully ventured forwards encountering Normans on my left and Vikings on my right. 

Charlie sent some heavy cavalry charging through the village but they literally got 'battered' by Nigels Vikings. Elsewhere the Vikings also snatched a livestock base from some Norman light infantry. 

Here the defeated Normans withdraw from the combat. 

My Anglo Danes charged into some Vikings and not only beat them in melee but captured some livestock from them. Over on my right, after a gamelong struggle I finally cleared a path to my table exit zone.  

Having finally got his Elite Cavalry led by Tancred himself moving, Charlie managed to get that unit off the board to earn more glory. Sadly the rest of his force was by now either battered or destroyed. Eric the Red, the Viking leader offered his Anglo Danish rival, Wulfgar the Slayer a truce, allowing both sides to withdraw quite a few units. With the Vikings having most of the livestock allowed Nigel to claim the victory. 

Final scores were Nigel 10 glory, myself 8 glory and Charlie on 3 glory. 

Having now got the rules sorted in our (old and shrinking) minds we aim to play again next week.