Or…. The Perils of Beryl and her Bucket of Message… 😳
Greetings…
The youngsters and I recently played another game of War of the Roses using Lion Rampant…
The scenario we chose was the Fugitive…. Who remembers the 1963 T.V. series.?
Israel and I were the ‘Rescuers’… While Matt and Alessandro were the all out villains.
My brave boys prepare themselves for battle… Looking glorious.
The opposing forces face each other off…. Our Fugitive was hidden in one of the terrain pieces set up across the middle-ish of the table…
A nice view of our men arrayed along the battlefield… Very pretty… Wouldn’t you say. 😀
I make a dash towards the Manor House… This was probably the fastest I moved all game… And of course there was no one there… I mean why would the be… It was me rolling the dice 🤣.
I also sent some archers over to dissuade Alessandro from coming any closer… Of course it didn’t work… My men just wandered at a leisurely pace picking flowers and taking in the fine weather… Veteran Archers… I think not Me’Lord.😡
Israel skipped forward into the woods in front of him and scooped up the Fugitive…
She was carrying a bucket with something ‘Important’ in it… It smelt funny… So I didn’t ask.
While my men were in a good position in the Manor House I thought they could take advantage of their tactically superior position and shoot some arrows at Matt’s men as they crossed the river… They didn’t!
I think they got distracted by the wine cellar… Well not the cellar… Which is well known in the area for being very clean and dry… Just the contents 🍷🍷🍷
Before…
Glory awaits me…
After…
Waiting for a bus…🤣
I’m still alive… Myself and the Standard Bearer were removed as they were the ‘two’ figure stand… Shame and fear of being laughed at may also have been a factor….
Matt’s men cross the river and start to chase down Israel and the Fugitive…I think we christened her Beryl
My men?….. Still trying to string their bows/stand up/get out the well… Who knows.
Oh!…Look!… It’s my other ‘Veteran’ Archers…
“ Turn around you idiots… They are behind you!… And you missed the party in the Manor… Not that it’s done me any good.🙄