Barons War: Field of Glory

 For our fourth game of Barons War we played scenario 4: Fields of Glory. It was just me (Baron de Lacy-Rebel) and Ian Baron Maudsley-Royalist) playing this week with a 600pt Retinue each. We decided that the crossroads in the centre of the table was the main objective with my Baron's tent as another and the stone cross as the 3rd objective.

This was the first time that we had both used mounted Knights and it is perhaps not very surprising that they tended to dominate the action. In this photo Baron de Lacy shows his intention to ride around the flank and claim the Royalist objective...would his cunning plan work!

On the opposite side of the table Baron Maudsley is pondering his action plan. 

Baron Maudsley and his retinue after deployment. 

You can see their stone cross on the far side of the table. 

Baron de Lacy and his Retinue deploy.

Baron Maudsley advances.

Baron de Lacy sends his levy to take on the enemy levy (or simple folk as Ian calls them). 

Maudsley's levy won that fight so Baron de Lacy went charging in, due to some bad dice rolls he did not do anywhere near as well as expected but did manage to break the levy...just!  

Next Baron de Lacy headed along the road towards the crossroads. 

Note the retreating levy and also Baron Maudsley and his knights lurking in the background, protecting the cross. 

Baron de Lacy charges into the enemy crossbow troops and again, although they won the melee, it was not very convincing, I was beginning to despair of my poor dice throwing. . 

Baron Maudsley has seen all this.

 

So Baron Maudsley charges into Baron de Lacy and his knights, winning the melee and pushing de Lacy and his remaining knights back over the hedge. I could not believe how many '1's I threw on my 'defence' and 'shield' throws. 

Eventually only Baron de Lacy remained fending off Maudsley and his knights plus a few crossbow bolts. 

The end is nigh as Baron Maudsley claims the crossroad as quite an intense melee in the small field also goes Maudsley's way. 

Baron Maudsley charges in just to make sure the few remaining enemy are defeated. 

This was a clear victory for Ian and Baron Maudsley as he claimed 2 objectives to my one but with most of Baron de Lacy's retinue in tatters there was little that could be done to avoid the defeat. 

That was our fourth game, I had won the first two but Ian has pulled it back with two wins to make the current score 2v2. Next game will be scenario 5 and it will be the decider of this little run of Barons War games.