Three games were played at the club this past Saturday night. On scheduled were games being put on by Walt Williams, Paul Pease and Doug Rains. Walt put on a WFG scenario for up to eight players. The night’s scenario was set during the D-Day landings in 1944 and consisted of US paratroopers trying to seize a small Normandy village held by the Germans. Featured in the game was Walt’s latest terrain acquisitions consisting of railroad tracks and a railroad bridge, which was one of the objectives in the game.
Paul Pease put on another test-run of his updated Napoleon’s Battles rules using hex-based movement. Paul’s been building on Lamont Anderson’s hex-based ruleset for a while now and each game has allowed Paul to refine and updated those rules. Paul’s game had room for up to six players and all the slots for his game were filled allowing a lot of our club members participate Saturday night.
The final game of the evening was up on by Doug Rains as was the final game of the first year of Doug’s War of the Roses Campaign game. Eight players took part the Fall season of battle and at the conclusion the first heir vying for the throne of England was beheaded. Below is Doug’s recap of the battle.
England
1455 A.D.
Fall
Your Chronicler must apologize for he has been remiss in documenting the battle that took place in the Fall of 1455 between the Houses of Lancaster and York. The sale of an Estate in the City, family celebratory gatherings and smacking down an Evil Empire (due to conclude July 8th) have all conspired to delay this missive. Alas, the advancing age of your chronicler and the deteriorating state of his memory have conspired to make this necessarily short.
The House of Lancaster was represented by Sir Douglas of Mackie, C-I-C, Sir Jonathan, Baronet of Lizard Rock, Sir Jeffery of Meadow Park and Sir Douglas of Monteagle. The House of York was represented by Sir Andrew, Baronet of Plume, C-I-C, Sir Luis, Baronet de la Rochelle, Sir Robert of Elmwood and Sir Brian, Baronet of Firenze.
Someone had an advantage in Towns and Bishops and controlled choice of side and choice of opponents. In the end Sir Douglas of Mackie faced Sir Andrew of Plume, Sir Jonathan of Lizard faced Sir Luis de la Rochelle, Sir Jeffery of meadow Park faced Sir Robert of Elmwood and Sir Douglas of Monteagle faced Sir Brian of Firenze.
Once again the House of Lancaster pressed the attack and once again suffered heavy losses. The battle went bad very quickly and soon Lancaster was barely hanging on. York did start taking casualties late in the battle but never enough to put them in serious jeopardy. In highlight, Sir Douglas of Mackie got into trouble with his cavalry again, Sir Jonathan discovered that Hobilars are not the best choice for attacking Knights and Sir Douglas could not win a fight to save his …, well let’s just say he came close to turning into Uncle Grumpy. (We hates Sir Brian forever!) Sir Douglas of Mackie’s army came within 1 point of breaking, Sir Jeffery’s within 4 points and Sir Douglas of Monteagle’s within 2 points. Sir Jonathan’s army did break although it held on afterward for a very long time. As in previous battles on the turn of a House breaking and fleeing the field, a major event occurred. In this case Sir Douglas of Monteagle was able to isolate and take down the horse of Sir Brian. In their scramble to rescue Sir Brian, his bodyguards neglected to protect the Heirs he was charged with and Sir Douglas bravely fled the field in charge of 5, count them 5 Heirs to the Throne of England including our good Queen.
In the Parlay after Battle, the assembled Yorkists struck the head from Edward, Prince of Wales. Alas Lancaster has lost a most promising Heir. They then called a Parliament and tried to elect Richard, Duke of York as King of England to which the assembled Lancastrians said thank you, no, we already got one.
As the winning Commander, Sir Brian promoted Sir Luis to Baron for his prowess in battle, losing only one element. (I am sure having everyone now refer to him as Lord Luis will make him doubly insufferable.) Sir Douglas of Monteagle was promoted to Baronet because of the record number of captured Heirs.
Over the winter all the Bastard’s will rebuild their forces in preparation for the Battles to come in 1456.
Your Chronicler