Simon and I played the cattle raid scenario from TFL's "Dux Britaniarum", with Simon's Romano-British vs my Saxons. My objective was to move some ill-gotten animals off one table edge. Things started well for the Saxons with the forces moving quickly across the waterways, much to the consternation of the Romano-British, which only managed to push an advance force of 2 units onto the table.
Undaunted the Romano-British Lord, his elite Comitatus and a unit of warriors charged towards the ford to block the invader. The Saxons turned to meet the oncoming force but were butchered thanks to the Romano-British champion and some decent cards. Also, thank God for the shieldwall which ignores the first kill.
However, the Saxon Lord and his Hearthguard were moving menacingly down the table……
Battle was resumed at the ford which resulted in the two Saxon units breaking and running for it.
The Saxon elites charged the warrior and levy who had lined up to block the route to the ford; javelins were thrown but again the luck was with the Romano-British as only one shock resulted. They then crashed into the shieldwall. Oh dear!
Miraculously the shieldwall survived, again thanks to “Shieldwall”, but were pushed back.
However, the Saxons could see their objective slipping away. Not much chance of a single warrior unit taking on the Romani-British Lord, champion and two veteran units. They began to retreat back up the table along with the ill-gotten gains.
Back at the other melee the Romano-British forced a defensive line of two intact levy and two pretty badly-mauled units. However the Saxon Lord and seen his units hit hard and soon saw the folly of carrying on.
Victory to the forces of Christianity over paganism.
