Écorcheurs! And the truffle pig

 

The Club Secretary's birthday game.

The Écorcheurs! Rulebook is a Hundred Years' War skirmish wargaming ruleset by Robert W. Jones and Gripping Beast, and it focuses on small, thematic, 14th-century retinue battles, featuring unique rules for armour, chivalry, and campaigns.

The game is afoot.  Apart from my mounted guys of course!

The Retinues

Scots vs English

Lord Parkour of Galloway
One pole arm Man at Arms
One bannerman
One Secondary Leader 
Eight spearnen
Seven archers

The Earl,of Waldridge
Earl Huge of Waldridge
3 men at arms
5 Spearmen
5 Archers
One Mounted Man at Arms
Three Mounted Sergeants

The setting.  The village of Merde de Porc, home to a famous truffle pig.

And the "porc" is our objective

The Earl musters his retinue.  I really need to get the basing completed.

And on come the English.

The Scots appear.

But the Earl gers the best of the early moves
The Scots shoot, driving one man at arms back 3".  Poor Bob.

The Earl charges in to clear the archers, but not Reluctant Bob, who hangs back!

In fact the archers go down in a single combat turn.  Three dead.

A touch of annoyance among my lads about Bobs feelings being hurt.
The "Scots Dogs" is a bit unnecessary in a fight over a pig! 

However the victory has spread the Earl's men

The Scots charge.  Killing two.  Wee Billy goes crazy and pushes back three men.  He is however stunned, and pretty much doomed.

The pig is forgotten as the fight swings either way.
Both sides feed men in.

And my mounted Sergeants charge, sweeping away some of the Scots spears

But it's not one sided.

My Mounted men fail to  save Earl Hugh. 
 He falls cruelly pierced through the chitterlings by a lowly spearmen.

My Mounted Sergeants are driven off.  Two flee when the Earl falls.

The fall of the Earl by "Hoots McHooter" famed Galloway artist.  Unfortunately for the composition the Earl was afoot when he fell.

And in all the scrapping the porker was forgotten.  He lives to truffle another day!

Bob fans will be unsurprised to discover that he was among the men who legged it at the end of the game.