Quite the milestone yesterday when I had my first game out of my family bubble. Victoria and I have played a few games of Star Wars: Legion* while in lockdown, but yesterday I ventured over to Toms' in Sherwood to join him and James for a game as part of the #WorldWarRoses event, playing a Battle of Barnet game.
Almost all of my medievals are still in transit from Wisconsin, so I was only able to contribute a single unit of bowmen, but fortunately Tom, James and Martin have got rather a lot of their own stuff done.
We played using James's own Midgard rules that, although it was my first game with them, work very well for the period. James commanded the Yorkists while Tom took the Lancatrians, this rusty general was entrusted with Gloucesters command on the right flank of the Yorkist army. The deployments were managed by twitter poll and we then rolled a +/- dice and the whole Yorkist army wandered two base widths to the right in the fog.
The command rolls were affected by the fog, with units needing to pass on a 4+ rather than a 3+ but we were soon into action In the centre Edward and Warwick were soon battering away at each other, both commanders eventually surrounded by the bodies of their dead Men at Arms.
On my right my Billmen soon saw off Oxfords archers but my Men at Arms made heavy going against his Billmen, suffering many setbacks until finally my own Billmen were able to support the fight and turn the tables, although Gloucester was gravely wounded he survived the day and took Oxfords surrender, a pretty ransom shall be collected!
A great days gaming with some good old friends!
*It was nice to be on the winning side for a change ;)
Great looking game
ReplyDeleteThanks Neils
DeleteLooks a great game. It was a fantastic concept to have a weekend of WotR gaming worldwide. I played as part of the Test of Resolve team and we also had a blast
ReplyDeleteThank you, David, for your Zoom Towton game. The battle and run-through your new rules were good fun, indeed. You and Tim did an excellent job with hosting the event.
DeleteAlthough not a main area of interest for me it was great to get involved
DeleteLovely looking game Paul!
ReplyDeleteA brilliant looking game.
ReplyDeleteLovely looking game, planning Barnet as our first face to face game, fog and treachery ( well the possibility anyway!)
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
A fine way to resume some face to face gaming.
ReplyDeletePaul, a return to the UK and a return to F2F gaming with friends is a terrific why to hit the Reset Button. Game looks superb.
ReplyDeleteThat looks great. The cotton wool for the fog worked brilliantly. Simple and super-effective.
ReplyDeleteRegards, James
Great to see so much WoTR gaming going on at the moment!
ReplyDeleteLooks fantastic!
ReplyDeleteNice work, we too had a World War of Roses game on Sunday. I have always found it slightly odd that so many of the big WotR battles were affected by the weather - fog mainly....
ReplyDeleteA great looking game indeed...
ReplyDeleteI love the fog... simple but very effective.
All the best. Aly