Greetings…
Last Friday four of us gathered together once more at Matt’s house for another game of Lion Rampant using our Wars of the Roses toys.
This time I joined forces with Matt… Jasper Tudor… I suspect the De La Pole family will be spinning in their graves… But it is the Wars of the Roses and loyalties are flexible…
We were up against Steven…Hastings…. and Alessandro… Somerset.
We used The Taxman Cometh scenario…
Each side had to collect as many ‘Tax’ counters as they could and with added points for destroying enemy units who ever had the most at the end of the game wins…
The ‘Tax’ counters are valued at 1,2 or 3 points and are placed randomly on the table…
We set the game at 7-8 moves…
My men form up for battle/tax collecting…
Take note of the unit of archers at the bottom of the picture…
They liked it there… 🙄…
A view across at Hastings and Somerset… Boooo !
Jasper Tudor and his men….
Hastings… booo!
Me… Hurrah! Hurrah!…
My brave boys face off against Hastings dastardly cavalry….
Brave Jasper Tudor charges into town to save the day… And collect taxes… Which are of course going to be used to improve the infrastructure of this small community… Honest.
It didn’t end well…
Here are my archers… Where they were at the beginning of the game…I believe they are debating whether or not climbing through the hedge as it may ruin their nice new clothes….
This appears to have become a ‘thing’… Next thing you know there will be talk of ‘Votes’… Whatever that is 🤔.
The utter swines have stolen our money/future development funds…
Jasper finds himself all alone as his men are … Dead 💀😳… He was to join them moments later.
It didn’t seem to bother the rest of his troop though… they continued to fight on . (They made their morale saves).
After a bit more fussing about… My archers manage to cross the hedge and joint the rest of my men…
They look quite intimidating… It’s a shame that they couldn’t hit a barn door at three paces.
Hastings and Somerset make a drive forward and capture a lot of ‘Tax’… Typical the rich stealing from the poor again… You certainly wouldn’t see the likes of us behaving like that…🙄
The villains meet up to count their ill gotten gains…
My brave Billmen dash in and rescue some of the village benevolent fund in the last minutes of the game…
The game played out really well
At the beginning Matt and I were rolling some of the worst dice ever… I’m sure we rolled a zero at one point…
By the end things improved for me a bit… But it was too late… The villains had grabbed most of the ‘Tax’…
When we turned our counters over all we had were ones… sigh!
Matt pointed out to me that I hadn’t taken many pictures of his very nice toys in the last game.
So here is a view from his side of the table…
Matt/Tudor did all he could to drive his men forwards towards Somerset’s men but he was continually thwarted by the fickle gods of dice…
He was however glorious and went down fighting… They can’t take that away from him…
Or can they 😈.
All the best. Aly
