Today for our 3rd game of Barons War we went with the third scenario Attrition: whoever kills the most points of troops after 5 turns is deemed the winner. Ian and Nigel combined their troops for a force of 600pts against the same amount of points of my troops led by John de Lacy as usual. Nigel's contingent were led by Robin Hood and Ian's were led by a Baron but I have forgotten his name. We had previously played at 500pts so this was to be our largest game yet.
Robin Hood deployed on the left on top of the hill, taking a group of merrymen as his command group. Not sure if this correct within the rules for command groups but he had painted the figures so we went with it. De Lacy deployed his Retinue near his tent, clearly visible.
De Lacy's mounted serjeants went charging in and were quickly surrounded by the enemy but thanks to some amazing defensive roles they actually survived but minus a few men.
Robin Hood (stats taken from v1 of the rules) was a bit of a beast with his merrymen causing havoc with their shooting.
Ian,s small contingent of knights try to surprise my knights led by a Lord (de Lacy's son we decided). This was our first ever mounted knights v mounted knights clash.
A view of the centre of the table with my red and yellow mounted serjeants still surviving.
They are quite surrounded by the enemy.
Happily my knights defeated Ians, some good victory points in the bag for my retinue.
Elsewhere Ian and Nigel had driven off the one remaining serjeant scoring a good wedge of victory points. At this point Ian and Nigel were well ahead.
Getting a bit cocky, my knights charged into some peasants. To my disgust I only killed one of them and then some upstart peasant slew my mounted Lord. This made Nigel very happy.
My foot serjeants came down the road and charged Robin Hod and the Merrymen killing quite a few of them and causing them to be broken. You can see them backing off.
In the final turn my two remaining knights charged Robin Hoods command group killing what was left and causing Robin to become broken. Not much else happened so it was time to tally up the fallen. I had suffered 302 pts of casualties compared to Ian and Nigel's 254. So a win for Ian and Nigel but with Robin Hood and the remaining peasants broken it is a shame I could not count them in my total as they were still on the table.
Once more we had great fun with parts of this game being very cinematic. Next week we play again using scenario 4: Field of Glory'.
