Midgard, Artos stuffs it to Aelle: Scenario 1: Artos & the Britons vs Aelle & the Saxons

This was the second of two learning games, in 2 days. The first game saw Chris’s Aelle & the Saxons getting his ar*e handed to him by two OAPs, over Zoom! No pics here, as Phil was too busy explaining the rules to Chris & managing the tech.

The next morning saw Greg lead Artos’ forces to a stunning victory, over Phil’s Saxons, in just over 90 minutes! This being Greg’s first time with Midgard too!

The Saxons opened with a strong central advance of the Hearthguard, screened by skirmishers. The Saxon left hung back, cautiously facing off the Briton cavalry. The Saxon right advanced in echelon to the centre, hoping to exploit the success of Aelle and the Hearthguard centre punch.

All seemed to be going to plan, the skirmishers even managing to inflict a stamina loss on Artos’ hearthguard! However, then it all started to go wrong. The left centre Saxon Heathguard advance stalled, in a draw, while Aelle was driven back (Aelle still smarting from Artos’s refusal to fight him in a duel!). Artos rallied his men, flashed Excalibur and plunged through the Saxon Hearthguard.

In the previous day’s battle, Artos’ Legendary Tool had done absolutely nothing! He hadn’t even soiled the useless thing. In Greg’s hands, Artos’ tool was truly legendary. With the Saxon hearthguard smashed, Osric tried to plug the gap bursting open in the Saxon lines, but Artos, his legendary tool and his Hearthguard, simply steamrollered over the Saxon Young Warriors. Artos again casually dismissing Osric’s challenge to a duel.

The Saxons took some small solace from holding the Briton Cavalry back on the left and even driving back the Briton left flank, but to no avail. Artos has now helping himself to the last Reputation token, by humbling Osric, amongst the bodies of the young spearmen!

We have played this scenario 3 times now, using the same forces, but each game has been quite different. Plenty of see-sawing and little tactical choices, among the bigger battle strategy. Midgard will be on the table for some time, we suspect!