Midgard - War of the Roses - Battle of Boggy Bottom

James, Martin and Chris all came around to the Sherwood Soldier Shack for a War of the Roses game using James' Midgard rules. Play-testing various things, including canon and a slightly tweaked turn sequence. 

The scenario was (very) loosely based on Barnet - minus the fog.

After some initial maths based confusion about the number of units available we got ourselves set up. James and I in command of the Lancastrians - slightly undermanned waiting for Oxford and others to turn up. Martin and Chris had the Yorkists, including Eddie the King.

Lancastrians bar the road to Boggy Bottom

The Yorkists assemble

The King!

The guns await their chance

BOOOM!!!

The Yorkists get mired in the Boggy Brook

Eddie moves up

The Lancastrian archers unleash an arrow storm

Before retiring behind the bills

The Yorkist cavalry, somewhat rashly, leads the way

Accompanied by some archers - whose bill are lagging behind

More archers contact the gonnes

Soon the whole line is engaged

The Lancastrian reinforcements arrive in time to secure the right flank.

The battle is joined

Montague is bypassed and his billmen run down

The Lancastrian centre throws back the initial Yorkist charge.

Warwick makes sure he's close to the scurrers in case he needs to make a swift exit

The Lancastrian knights take on their Yorkist opposite numbers

Eddie decides he's had enough and wades in.

On the right Oxfords men tangle with Gloucester

Montague joins his bills in an attempt to hold the Lancastrian left

Edward now has forced his way deep in to the Lancastrian centre

Gloucester is wounded but fights on.

The handgunners give ineffective fire

The King's Men at Arms pick on some soft targets

Warwick decides to get on his horse just, you know, to get a better view

The Lancastrian left is driving York back

But Edward has breached the centre and turns in search of Warwick

Oxford is forcing Gloucester back across Boggy Brook (or Bloody Boggy Brook as it is fast becoming)

However the Lancastrian cup runs out of reputation!

Despite success on both flanks...

...it is the centre where the battle has been lost

And Warwick, wisely takes to his horse to flee from an enraged Edward

A great fun game that looked splendid. Not had the War of the Roses toys out since this time last year so it was great to see them all on the table. And now, inevitably I want to paint some more!

The rules seemed to hold up pretty well - though originally designed really for earlier times (and fantasy) they gave a good simulation of the grind of WotR combat and cover the period well.