Friday 16 March 2018

It's cold out there

Had my first game of Lion Rampant and did a little foray into the baltic which i must say was very enjoyable , i modified the stats slightly to give the Samogitians the ability to operate in their home terrain easier and to provide a more flavourful game, the stream , woods and hills were considered rough going , my figures were 15mm and mounted on 25mm circular bases and i used 1/2 inches so effectively cutting everything down by half

the stats were modified as follows

Teutonic Knights no mods , kept these as the base value and modified others in relation to these troops
Mounted Men at Arms :- (5+ to 6+) Chance of movement decreased due to poor terrain
Spearmen :- (4+ to 5+) Courage decreased due to skirmishing of enemy and harassment of troops while in enemy lands
Crossbowmen :- (4+ to 5+) Courage decreased due to skirmishing of enemy and harassment of troops while in enemy lands

Samogitians
Foot Men at Arms :- (5+ to 4+) Chance of movement increased due to native terrain , Armour Decreased due to poorer quality (3 to 2) , attack Value decreased due to poorer weapon quality (3+ to 4+)
Archers :- (6+ to 5+) Chance of movement increased due to units used to native terrain
Bidowers :- (5+ to 4+) Chance of movement increased due to units used to native terrain

The story behind the Battle is that the Teutonics were on a mission of burn the 3 buildings



A slow advance by the Teutons whilst the Sammy's Rushed towards the village to defend it

The Sammy Bidows moved up and started peppering away at those deadly crossbows

Which annoyed the knights who showed them who was boss and wiped them out but the Teuton men at arms deciding not to get too involved with the other Sammy warband and cower on the hill and eventually running away

And then the knights got the bit between their teeth and went on to wipe out the Sammy bowmen who would have shot but failed to activate

Everything else on the Sammy side went to defend the village

The final positions of a Sammy warband and their only bidower hiding in the buildings... so ended with the roasting of the Sammy forces

This was a good fun battle and played very well solo especially if the stats are modified to add flavour to the game

I think another go with the pikeman's lament into the late 17 century and another modifier of those rule stats to cope with some grand alliance games

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