Lion Rampant Wars of the Roses

General Ballroom and I have both independently been collecting Wars of the Roses forces - me for Midgard games, he for games of Lion Rampant that he's been playing with Aly Morrison and others

So, searching for something to fill a gap as we prepare for another Chain of Command PSC we decided to get our forces together and play some Lion Rampant ourselves.

A simple 24 point affair across a river crossing.

I had only foot troops, so this was a bit of a shock!

Plenty of green and white, seems we'd both bought Lancastrians with us.

My green clad archers.

The (hard) core of my force.

Preparing to loose.

First blood to my stout lads as an archer takes one in the eye.

The yellow and blue blokes grabbed the hedge while the infantry went on a flank march.

On came the enemy.

Seems unwise to halt midstream with all that shiny armour on.

Oh dear. General B.'s knights seemed impervious to the famous failed activation rules that usually plagues them in LR.

With billmen wasting no time in crossing the stream too.

However skilled archery saw the leader of the force plucked from his horse early on.

Whose flank would see the most success as my lads were now bearing down on enemy archers too?

The knights crashed home, but were being whittled down.

The archers were thrown back, but casualties were light.

Meanwhile the Men at Arms were amongst the archers, who were overwhelmed and broke!

More shooting reduced the knights to half strength.

....and then I forgot to take any more pictures!

My green archers were wiped out, however the blue and yellow fellows managed to destroy the knights and hold off the advancing billmen. Meanwhile my men at arms destroyed the other archers across the river. When my blue and yellow archers killed the remaining billmen the game was up and I had secured the win!

It was a great game, just the right level of brain taxation for General B. and I, so we decided that we're going to give the short five game campaign from the Lion Rampant 2 rule book a go. We both have all the troops we need, although I'm at Hammerhead next week and may take the opportunity to add something new to the collection...

Here's a few additional phone pictures too (that run out at the same point!)