Raiding along the British shore

A Dark Age game fought between a Viking raiding party and the local Saxons.

Hard to tell from the photos, but mist covered the land and this reduced the vision of the Vikings. This resulted in terrain being placed as the Vikings moved forward.

 The Vikings left their longboats and headed inland. They had been lead to believe that there was a village not too far away. 

 A couple of villagers were spotted but ran off as the Vikings approached. The Vikings followed and.....

 ....then the village came into view and the Vikings began to rush forward to loot whatever they could.

 As the Vikings reached the edge of the village the local Saxons appeared, keen to defend their livestock and homes.

 No fried chicken for these Vikings tonight as the Saxons began to escape with whatever they could.

 Saxon cavalry appeared and charged into the Vikings that were about to grab some pigs.

 The Vikings did manage to get some cattle and sheep and these were herded back to the waiting ships.

The old guy with the sheep managed to fend off several attacks from well equipped Vikings until he was finally killed.

 The Saxons managed to get a lot of their stock away to safety but the Vikings searched the buildings and got away with a bit of gold and silver.

A costly battle for the Warlords involved, all but one were killed. The Viking warlord above was attacked by two Saxons. To kill the warlord the unarmoured Saxon need to roll "6" and the armoured a "5" or "6". Slim odds but it was achieved!

Great game with the lads.

Thanks to Brad for organising the game.

We used our modified LotR rules.