More Sagas

I have decided to play some more Saga, as I had quite a fun time with it the first time. We have pretty much the same forces, just larger, for the first one, and for the second battle in this group of two we have the same forces we had in all the previous battle reports. The first battle is one in which we are trying to cross the river. the second one is the same pitched battle that we all know and love.

We are aligned across from each other across the river.

A view from the other side.

My hearthguard are the first ones on the bridge, and they get slinged to death. I am now preparing the anti-shooting power each turn. 

All my forces are already heavily fatigued.

I attempt a crossing of the bridge.

My hearthguard charge and get repulsed, losing half of their number.

There are a ridiculous number of Anglo-Saxons on the other side of that bridge.

The next turn was simply a turn of repositioning.

My hearthguard suck, but my warlord is a god.

Another shot of that, because that's what Norse sagas are all about.

M warriors on the other sided of the battlefield finally fight their way across the bridge.

My warriors advance, two abreast, behind their lord.

We face off.

Both warlords retreat.

My levy advances in support of my warriors.

 This has obviously developed into two separate mini-battles.

My warlord appears to be beating back the enemy on the stone bridge.

The enemy are on the back foot.

My warriors are dead and the enemy are across.

There are now no Anglo-Saxons on the stone bridge at all.

There is quite a force of Anglo-Saxons across the wooden bridge now, to win the game.

My warlord is across, but it's not enough.

A victory for the Anglo-Saxons. Very frustrating.

A new battle has begun. We face off across a village.

The shields on the Vikings are very impressive.

One of my units of warriors committed suicide to kill six of the enemy's warriors.

That unit is smaller.

My warriors and warlord charge in to rout it, at the cost of four of our own.

My hearthguard are coming in to reinforce.

The levies bounce off of my hearthguard, but one of our own is down.

The berserkers always seem to suffer a high number of casualties.

The levy form a circle around my hearthguard so they can't get to my warlord.

Not for want of trying, though.

Our warlords end the battle locked in mortal combat, with mine finally being struck down.

These were a couple more fun scenarios. I think that I needed to make a better plan for the first scenario, go in less piecemeal, and just get shot less. For the second one, I probably needed to have my hearthguard and berserkers in the right place to begin with. I had fun though.

See you in a couple of weeks with the report from the latest club meeting!