The Daemon's Claw

Vandred led his warband to another ruined human village, or was it the same one as last time? They all looked the same after a while. One squalid pile of smashed burnt out dilapidated buildings after another all showing lives ended before they could learn the beauty of the Chaos Pantheon. We must be going in the right direction there are those cursed witch hunters. When we get to the village we detect movement. Its Goblins. Great it's a classic genocidal dungeon crawl where we kill them and nick their stuff. Morkar goes - "but we are not in a Dungeon boss?"  "Get out the way you big meat sack, go with Magaera!. There is a guy that used intelligence as his dump stat. This is an overview of the battle site, Alan's warband is coming down from the top and I am coming up from the bottom. The goblins start shouting and jeering when they spot us. Sticking with the plan Vandred cast strengths on the Barbarian and at fight 7 he leaps forward onto the Goblin thug. However ...

 We started the year with a Saga game . Richard and I fought a 1066 game of Normans vs Anglo Danes . Alan and Ed fought a Crecy themed game with French charging English archers . Here is the start of the game. We had to deploy with a distance of M between units. The Anglo Danes made the first advance, marching forward. The Normans begin their advance with the infantry advancing into the ruins to secure a defensive position. The levies open fire on their opposite numbers. The mounted units slide to the left The crossbowmen shoot the warriors opposite and the cavalry warriors ride up and hurl a shower of javelins. We end up killing three. The Knights charge the warriors on the right flank and kill 5 for the loss of one of their number.  The Heathguard attack my warriors and kill 5 for the loss of 3. Two warriors had been shot by the arrows of the Anglo Dane levies. My mounted warriors get caught by the Anglo Dane Fryd when they make a double move. They lose the fight 5-3 and...