Blood and Horse Droppings Game 2

 I was new to these rules, but the other Petains had played and enjoyed them.  They looked pretty good to me, and once again we used the 10mm Wars of the Roses figures of Master Quilp.

The scene is the County of Midshire, and   the quaint market town of Much Rutting.  Once again the Duke of York and his allies face off against the Lancastrians lead by the Beauforts.

My photos pretty much follow my own game, and because I was learning it as the game went on I'm not too up on the changes we followed from the original rules as written.  We are inveterate tinkerers I'm afraid.

Much Rutting.  

Percy's Ward goes down first.

Then I get the Duke on table.

My left wing is Earl Richard, who gets a nice hill and sits on it for the whole game

Percy presses forwards, with the usual innuendo following the Great Man.  

We gave each ward commander three Fate coins at the start.  Percy was soon to prove a big spender.

Some lucky shooting hammers Percy.  Its a fluke but by turn two he was tottering.

The Lancastrians come in as Earl Richard holds that hill and shoots.  We commented that maybe limiting arrows /ammunition supply would work to counter a tactic like this.

And our Peter Pig style clock couterd down from 21 really quickly.  By turn four we had only four points left.

Percy is killed in the shooting and his ward seem quite OK with that.  They pass their rolls and continue without him.

And to be fair, part the Lancastrians enjoyed sitting on their hill too!

The Yorkists had far more focus on shooting that the advancing Lancastrians, when seen from the Red Rose side of the table.

The hand of Earl Richard as the Lancastrians Irish mercenaries charge home.  He may be attempting to shoo them away.

But ironically it's the guy who didn't advance an inch who now faces combat from the Celtic fringe of the Lancastrians.

The Duke of York puts in a steady advance but both sides seem to want to Shoot it out.

Yet some of my units retain the first fire marker.  Stanley here is  trimmer, so he was in the Yorkist reserve line.

And after a battering round of shooting from the Duke of York the Lancastrians roll the battle clock dice as a six.  The sun sets and victory goes to the White Rose.

Really enjoyable game. I'll revisit this with my 6mm Barons War setup where the figures are based as retinues.