Quite the milestone yesterday when I had my first game out of my family bubble. Victoria and I have played a few games of Star Wars: Legion* while in lockdown, but yesterday I ventured over to Toms' in Sherwood to join him and James for a game as part of the #WorldWarRoses event, playing a Battle of Barnet game.
Almost all of my medievals are still in transit from Wisconsin, so I was only able to contribute a single unit of bowmen, but fortunately Tom, James and Martin have got rather a lot of their own stuff done.
We played using James's own Midgard rules that, although it was my first game with them, work very well for the period. James commanded the Yorkists while Tom took the Lancatrians, this rusty general was entrusted with Gloucesters command on the right flank of the Yorkist army. The deployments were managed by twitter poll and we then rolled a +/- dice and the whole Yorkist army wandered two base widths to the right in the fog.
The command rolls were affected by the fog, with units needing to pass on a 4+ rather than a 3+ but we were soon into action In the centre Edward and Warwick were soon battering away at each other, both commanders eventually surrounded by the bodies of their dead Men at Arms.
On my right my Billmen soon saw off Oxfords archers but my Men at Arms made heavy going against his Billmen, suffering many setbacks until finally my own Billmen were able to support the fight and turn the tables, although Gloucester was gravely wounded he survived the day and took Oxfords surrender, a pretty ransom shall be collected!
A great days gaming with some good old friends!
*It was nice to be on the winning side for a change ;)