Adepticon - Saga - not all one way traffic.

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It turns out there were 4 English armies in the Saga event and there were at least the same number of Swiss. The Swiss were widely regarded as a powerful faction.

This mission was about holding 3 objectives across the center line of the table. The strategy is about where to concentrate your force and where to put only a small amount of effort.
The initial effort goes well the spear warriors move up and drive back one unit of Swiss.
One the right flank, things don't go quite so well. The Swiss unit stomped over and kicked my warriors back from the objective. It wasn't all one way the Swiss were down from 10 to 6 warriors. If I could kill off some mroe they would not be a scoring and I could get back the objective.
The Swiss counterattack throws back the English Warriors, My Warlord chased off the Crossbowmen, The English Heathguard advance to take up the attack.
We go in and beat up the Swiss but bounce off.
My archers are hiding behind stakes and shooting at the Swiss opposite
The final melee. There were just a few too many Swiss. 
This was a good fight but I couldn't control the objectives and got outscored.

My Last game was against one of the other English armies. All the English were down at the bottom of the rankings. This game was about taking and holding the large central hill. I ended up marching my army around the hill. However I was a bit too far away.
My assault on the hill came up a bit short. I needed one more turn assuming I had any warriors left after the inevitable counterattack.

So, loads of fun and some great learnings. I got a participation prize which turned out to be a box of Wargames Atlantic Conquistadors.

There were other Saga events covering the other periods on the other days. Everyone was super nice.


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