Battle Report - Return of the Club!

 Hello All,

The club has returned! This time we are playing Saga: Age of Crusades. I took my Ordenstaat (Teutonic Knights), and ended up fighting martins Crusaders.

We did the random mission, but I just set up the terrain, so we skipped those rolls. The special rule was no special rule, and the mission was Show of Force. Basically survive and get a unit into the enemy deployment.

Here's the set up. I wanted to do a northern crusade so brought some stuff which worked great with the clubs mat.

Crusaders took the initiative and moved up a bit shooting a few arrows. The turcoples started an annoying plan of charging up shooting and falling back.

I shifted everything around a bit, and did the same, a bit less effective.

Crusaders brought the turcoples around the forest to fire on my brother Knights. I used a defensive ability but he still killed 2!

I decided to make a suicide attack with my remaining knights, but had poor luck and only killed 1, so that was a bad call.

Crusaders kept up a hail of fire, really killing off my serfs.

Starting to get a bit desperate being down on saga dice. But I saw able to kill some serfs to get more. I went for a double charge with my remaining Knights that went ok.

Crusaders were able to counter attack pretty well with their own knights however. As you cans ee very few unit left for me!

I decided on a last hurrah! So my warlord charged the annoying turcoples. I killed a few but not as many as I wanted, and my guy was left exhausted and vulnerable. The single knight charge was not very mighty either hah.

As if to add to the indignity the turcoples just shot my warlord down with arrows, no honor with these pagans!

My turn such as it is. Just 1 saga dice but I managed to get a shot off and finish a unit of knits! take that.

Crusaders use their turn to get into my deployment zone, so yeah I feel like it is safe to say they showed me the force!

Final turn for me, my saga dice did not roll a symbol I could use to activate my levy so that was that! We elected to skip the mathematics phase, but I am somewhat confident that the Crusaders won! Was a very fun game thou never the less, great to have the club back again look forward to more!

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As usual here is a few shots of other games going on:

Spring Crusades

Much larger desert crusades. I assume the camels are about to unleash hell.

Also WW2.

Thanks;

Mike