Midgard Hundred Years War action

James and I took the opportunity to play a couple games of Midgard on Sunday. 

I provided the troops and terrain, James sorted out the scenario and the rules.

We played the Pursuit scenario, an English army with a 4:3 superiority in numbers must exit the far table edge while the French close in on both sides.

We decided that the French character attributes meant that they had lots of lower level fighty characters to represent many brave individuals whose counsel is not always sought, while the English had more higher level characters with better command and control.

The brave French played exactly as expected, especially with James "Charge them in the face at the first opportunity" Morris in command and the English absorbed the shock of the first charge and after some hard, but inevitable fighting crushed the French.

We had played through the first game in only a couple of hours so lined them up again and had at it.

James this time had a more measured deployment with one wing much stronger than the other. 

Instead of "Charge them in the face at the first opportunity" James instead manoeuvred his Men at Arms to block the English exit while a steady rain of missiles on their right flank meant that the English could not concentrate.  

Eventually the English committed too small a force against the French Pavisiers on their right and although they eventually punched through the French Men at Arms in the centre, breaking the French army, the casualties inflicted were much closer with the English only claiming a Pyric victory.

A great couple of games in the end, the English were victorious both times, but it was a much more hard fought affair in the second.

Midgard are a great set of rules for games in the heroic ages, we've played many enjoyable games with them and I reckon they cannot be far from publication.