Sunday, June 19, 2011

Trouble up North...the real story!

Today the lads from Goulburn came together today shunt the Norman bastards from the shores of Albion, well that was the plan anyway.

William the Bastard (ala Unlucky General)


Greg built this fantastic Motte and keep based on the Royal Castle at York about two years ago and we thought we had better give it a baptism of fire. I built the bailey walls during the week...with one design fault I didn't make the wall walk wide enough, something that can be fixed though with a tiny bit of work.







A first time run of the Siege and Conquest WAB rules Guy and Myself ran a Saxon Viking alliance to take the motte and bailey. We under estimated the power of the periers and onagers against the walls, having a hard time even trying to hit them! So we assaulted with our unit battering rams and grapple hooks, Greg couldn't hope to slaughter enough of us before we breached the walls.







Olaf the destroyer!


The assault on the Motte was much more successful, the Viking berserkers gained a foothold to start with but eventually died in a hail of crossbow bolts, but the three other Saxon units made it over and eventually defeated one unit of crossbow and a unit of milites who ran like little girls and were all cut down, the remaining mercenary Sargents decided that they would join the victorious Saxons in the keep!



well that is how I saw it anyway!!!! For the Bastards version click here

A good game and a great day out was had by all, I can still have units I want to paint and need to finish to complete my Vikings so perhaps I should pull them out and complete then at some stage.

cheers
Matt

5 comments:

DeanM said...

Oh my, breathtaking terrain and figures. What a wonderful looking game. Good to hear Siege & Conquest was used too; I really love that supplement. Regards, Dean

Christopher(aka Axebreaker) said...

That's some real awesome terrain!

Christopher

Cyrus said...

Great Motte and Bailey there Matt and Greg!

Cheers

Mike

Paul´s Bods said...

Between the pair of you , you´ve put up two great reports on this game...I´ll say it again.that castle is something else!!!
Cheers
paul

Galpy said...

Man thats one nice setup and the figures look really great well done