More Barons War: The Prize.

 For our second game of Baron's War we played scenario 2: the Prize. We imagined that a local priest had hidden a document listing some of the rebel lords and both sides were keen to lay their hands on it. Ian sided with Nigel to take on my retinue; we are still playing at 500pts per side. 

Turn 1 and I sent in my mounted serjeants to capture the scroll.

Well that was easy...

Easy until Nigel loosed some arrows at my serjeants...   

...and just to finish them off, Ian charged his Knights command group into my serjeants. Three men down and my serjeants were 'broken'. We threw a dice to decide if in their flight the serjeants dropped the scroll. Luckily for me they did not so their flight was quite fortunate as they fled to safety with the scroll. 

Elsewhere lightly armed green troops danced around the wood trying to avoid each other. 

Then Ian sneaked his slingers into the wood to try and attack my archers who pulled back. 

My knightly command group charged Ian's and slew his commander. By the rule this meant game over as we only had one commander each so Ian could not try to elect a new commander (and I also had the scroll). Ian's command group was broken with just one knight left. 

Having claimed the scroll and killed their Commander I pulled my troops back to secure the win and forcing them to give chase but they never caught the serjeants holding the scroll. 

This was our second game (Nigel's first game) but it was really enjoyable once again. We are still finding our way through the rules but are improving our knowledge each week. Next week we increase the points to 600 per side with another leader figure each which should prove useful...I might try using some mounted knights but don't tell the others!