The Daemon's Claw

In the second round of the day, we decided to have a multiplayer game. We drew coloured skull counters to see who would be on which team. I ended up being partnered with Michael's Anglo Saxons and against us were all the Vikings commanded by Alan and Russell. The Anglo Norman alliance won the roll off so were the attackers. We played on the whole 6*4 table. We again had the deployment with everybody needing loads of personal space. This forced the armies to spread across the table. I had the honour of commanding the right flank while the Saxons were on the left. This meant Alan would be my primary opponent, because he was on the Viking left. We didn't deploy intermingled so our game ended up be two single player games.  Here the center of our lines, the first part of the line consist of the levy and the crossbowmen, the Sons of Death are behind them looking for the biggest Viking unit of Hearthguard to go and mutually destroy. Here is my right flank, with my knig...

I got in a second outing with my Last Romans against Alan's Vikings. I have 2 points of Hearthguard and 4 points of warriors, I have exchanged the Last Roman Warriors for a unit of Flemish mercenaries and a unit of Breton Cavalry.  Here are the Romans, they have deployed behind the field and the marsh with the Flemmings in the gap  Here are the Vikings split into 2 groups. The levy are on teh hill to the left with the small hearthguard and warriors and on the right are the warlord, hearthguard and the big warrior unit. In my first turn I only have three dice and I don't want the fighting to to start to early so I bank my dice onto the battle board and only move the Flemmings forwards. Alan moved up his levy and took a shot at my archers I diverted the shot onto the flemmings who took no casualties.  The Vikings shuffle arouns a bit in the middle not keen to spend all their activations getting into charge range of the cavalry.  My archers open fire....

We got to play a couple of games of Saga at todays meeting. Alan and Russel had a Viking on Viking game. Russell deciding to raid Alan's village hoping to catch him napping after a hard days raiding.  Here is the core of the Russell's Raiders, 2 units of 8 hearthguard and a unit of Berserkers. Russel also had 2 units of 6 Levy with bows on the flanks to provide a couple of Saga dice at least for a while. Alan had 3 points of hearthguard arranged as an 8 and a 4 and a 2 points of warriors arranged as a 10 and a 6 and a block of 12 levy. Russell contented himself with moving forward using the free activations and storing his dice in abilities on the battleboard. Alan moved his levy onto the hill and fired at Russell's levy killing 2 and costing him a Saga dice. Goaded into action Russell pushed forwards a unit of hearthguard and stormed into the Levy. The Levy used several saga abilities and were able to kill 4 hearthguard before being wipe...