Early Scots v Middle Anglo-Saxon
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:27 pm
Recently my local club got out our 25mm figures so I took along my Early Scots and found myself up against a historical opponent (how unexpected) 
Lost the initiative...so ended up in Agricultural terrain (which mostly ended up on right wing - so I loaded my right wing as the Scots are MF while the Saxons as HF).
Armies in rough order of march were (from memory)
Scots Saxons
2x 4 Light Horse 2x 6 LF (1 Jav, 1 Bow)
1x 8 LF Bow 1x 6 Mob
3x 8 MF Prot Off Sp 6x 6 HF Prot Off Sp
1x 8 HF Prot Def Sp (British) 2x 6 HF Arm Sup Off Sp
1x 4 HC Arm Sup (British) 1x 4 HC Arm Sup
2x 6 HF Arm Sup Off Sp - Thegns
At end of deployment we were:
One of the best Saxon foot units was in the middle of the Saxon spear line, the other was behind the fields (so I hoped it would get stuck there!)
On the left I tried to move out wide with 1 BG LH and 1 BG of British Cavalry, but the Saxons responded with Cavalry and Spearmen. This lead to the two identical superior cavalry units (both led by Generals) charging each other. I lost impact taking took 4 hits (from 4 dice), dropped to disrupted and lost a base. In melee again took 4 hits from 4 dice and double dropped....so broke.
A really lucky set of rolls by my opponent & unlucky by me.
So I sent the LH to raid the Saxon camp, while trying to hold on on my left....
On my right - I pushed 2 Scots MF BGs up my right flank: the left most of the pair grabbed the enclosed fields and faced off against the Saxons, while the right most turned and attacked the flank of the Saxon spear wall as it advanced. Flank attack resulted in a draw at impact...and I then lost the melee (lack of space meant I wasn't wider than the Saxons) The dice were against me.
Closer to the centre I managed to engineer it - by using my LF to tempt the Saxons forwards {shock troop} - so a single BG of 6 Saxon average spears could charge one of my last BG of 8 MF spears, and the Saxons had to step forward into a BG of Thegns (6 Arm Sup Off Spears).....6 bases v. 14 didn't take long to break the Saxons.
My MF spears then pursued into the Saxon BG which I'd previously hit in the flank....and this finshed the Saxon BG. My victorious pair of MF BGs then pursued towards and charged the Saxon reserve BG (which was in column) and started to beat it up.
Meanwhile my Thegns began to carve chunks out of the Saxons left facing them...and here the luck swung my way as I won the close melees and fragmented the Superior Armoured Saxon spears.
At this point...with the Saxon army falling apart the Saxon general conceeded. {A bit early in my opinion as my remaining BG of Britons was about to be mashed by Saxons spears from the front and Saxon cavalry from the flank!}
Lost the initiative...so ended up in Agricultural terrain (which mostly ended up on right wing - so I loaded my right wing as the Scots are MF while the Saxons as HF).
Armies in rough order of march were (from memory)
Scots Saxons
2x 4 Light Horse 2x 6 LF (1 Jav, 1 Bow)
1x 8 LF Bow 1x 6 Mob
3x 8 MF Prot Off Sp 6x 6 HF Prot Off Sp
1x 8 HF Prot Def Sp (British) 2x 6 HF Arm Sup Off Sp
1x 4 HC Arm Sup (British) 1x 4 HC Arm Sup
2x 6 HF Arm Sup Off Sp - Thegns
At end of deployment we were:
One of the best Saxon foot units was in the middle of the Saxon spear line, the other was behind the fields (so I hoped it would get stuck there!)
On the left I tried to move out wide with 1 BG LH and 1 BG of British Cavalry, but the Saxons responded with Cavalry and Spearmen. This lead to the two identical superior cavalry units (both led by Generals) charging each other. I lost impact taking took 4 hits (from 4 dice), dropped to disrupted and lost a base. In melee again took 4 hits from 4 dice and double dropped....so broke.
A really lucky set of rolls by my opponent & unlucky by me.So I sent the LH to raid the Saxon camp, while trying to hold on on my left....
On my right - I pushed 2 Scots MF BGs up my right flank: the left most of the pair grabbed the enclosed fields and faced off against the Saxons, while the right most turned and attacked the flank of the Saxon spear wall as it advanced. Flank attack resulted in a draw at impact...and I then lost the melee (lack of space meant I wasn't wider than the Saxons)
The dice were against me.Closer to the centre I managed to engineer it - by using my LF to tempt the Saxons forwards {shock troop} - so a single BG of 6 Saxon average spears could charge one of my last BG of 8 MF spears, and the Saxons had to step forward into a BG of Thegns (6 Arm Sup Off Spears).....6 bases v. 14 didn't take long to break the Saxons.
My MF spears then pursued into the Saxon BG which I'd previously hit in the flank....and this finshed the Saxon BG. My victorious pair of MF BGs then pursued towards and charged the Saxon reserve BG (which was in column) and started to beat it up.
Meanwhile my Thegns began to carve chunks out of the Saxons left facing them...and here the luck swung my way as I won the close melees and fragmented the Superior Armoured Saxon spears.
At this point...with the Saxon army falling apart the Saxon general conceeded. {A bit early in my opinion as my remaining BG of Britons was about to be mashed by Saxons spears from the front and Saxon cavalry from the flank!}
