Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Håtunaleken, Lion Rampant, AAR #7 and #8

Last weekend I and some of my club mateys continued our Lion Rampant campaign, the Swedish Games of Throne, "Håtunaleken" Håtuna-Games. We even managed to run 2 games, game #7 and #8 in the campaingn :)

Game #7
Autum year 1301, harvest have just been finnished and there are time to collect the taxes...

We run Scenario I: A Taxing Afternoon from the Lion Rampant rules, we didn´t have any major changes, but a unit would be able to collect more than one taxtocken, and the hoast collecting them would get the Glory and not his allys to, But all retinues on the winning side woulr earn 2 extra Glory. It was all played on a 120x120cm table.


OOB´s 

The Rebell Brothers: 

House of Bjälbo (Erik), Bottom
1x6 Foot Knights @ 6pts
1x6 Mounted Crossbow @ 4pts
1x6 Bidowers @ 2pts

House of Roos, Left
1x12 Expert Foot Serjants @ 6pts
1x12 Expert Archers @ 6pts

The Kings men:

House of Bjälbo (King Birger), Right
1x6 Mounted Knights, Drilled @ 7pts
1x12 Foot Serjants @ 4pts

House of Ulvåsa, Top
1x6 Mounted Knights, Drilled @ 7pts
1x12 Foot Yeomen with Mixed weapons @ 5pts


Tax tockens, 3 wagons and 3 heards of pigs was placed in the small village just waiting to be collected...


...and of they go, arriving from all directions the poos people of the willage could not save any of their harvest of heards...


As the Kings men had performed bad lately...the King had decided to overlook the Tax collection in persone....


The Kings Brother Erik also wanted his fair share of the taxes... sending his swift mounted crossbowmen in to the village and the beer wagon...


Women and children was running away from the approaching soldiers... The foot serjants from the House of Roos quickley snatched a wagon with flour...


The Rebells was the first to secure the village looting several of the houses and taking what not belong to them...


As the rebells pillageing the village the Ulvåsa Knights charges along the main road...


The Kings knights thought it was a good ideea to ride around amongst the barns...


The remaining Ulvåsa Knights chasing the rebells that still had the Beer wagon in their possetion...


On the other side of the village the two brothers King Birger and Duke Erik hade meet up in a fight amongst brothers...


i´m the King ! ...NO i´m the King ! ...NO NO i´m the true King !!! ...

quarrel amongst brothers... ended in single combat...and King Birger had to see himself be humiliated by his younger brother... you are still not the true King ! he shouted as his bodyguard brought him to safety...


The Kings Knights would try to save the day...


...but was a moment later shoot to pieces by the House of Roos Archers...

It once again all ended in disaster for the Kings men... Earning his rebell brother Erik 10 Glory and the House of Roos 5 Glory...



Game #8
After the rebells had collected greate amounts of the Kings Tax they had to transport it to safety...but the King was filed with anger and wanted revenge...   Scenario G: The Convoy from the Lion Rampant rules.

OOB´s 

The Rebell Brothers: 

House of Bjälbo (Erik), Left
1x6 Foot Knights @ 6pts
1x6 Mounted Crossbow @ 4pts
1x6 Bidowers @ 2pts

House of Roos, Left top
1x6 Mounted Knights @ 6pts
1x12 Foot Serjants @ 4pts
1x6 Bidowers @ 2pts

The Kings men:

House of Bjälbo (King Birger), Right
1x6 Mounted Knights, @ 6pts
1x12 Foot Serjants @ 4pts
1x6 Bidowers @ 2pts

House of Ulvåsa, Top and Bottom
2x12 Foot Yeomen with Mixed weapons @ 5pts
1x6 Bidowers @ 2pts


The Kings new knights not that drilled this time...


The Kings men comes from all direction and will try to retrieve the taxes lost...


Ambushing allmoge fighting for the true King... The Rebells send out some bidovers to screen the convoy...


Rebell convoy... hesitating as there are a lot of the Kings men in the path...


The King holds back his knight and await the conwoy to approach...


The cunning rebells sends the convoy on an alternate rout...


...but in no vain as the Kings allmoge seems to have been practiseing shooting...

It all ends with the Conwoy captured by the Kings men and the rebells fleeing in to the forest to be able to fight anotherday...

5 Glory to the King as well as the House of Ulvåsa :)



Below you can find the Glory count so far in our campaign after 8 games.


23 comments:

  1. Great looking models and terrain, always a pleasure to see games like this.

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  2. Great looking games. Sounds like they were a lot of fun too.

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  3. I like the two games being linked which is cool. I've been playing some quick solo games to get the rules under my belt before Salute and have enjoyed them a lot.

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    1. Sounds good Steve! i hope to see you at Salute!

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  4. The table looks great. A standing ovation ;-)

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  5. Another fantastic looking game(s), very inspiring job...

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  6. Great stuff! Games anyone would be proud to take part in.

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  7. Great report! Really enjoyed your reports.

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  8. fantastic looking games and an enjoyable battle report

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  9. Really nice AARs! I really enjoy your Håtuna campaign. /Mattias

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  10. Awesome. The story keeps growing.

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  11. Great looking games and cool AAR graphics on the maps!

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  12. Another splendid report and pics, I always look forward to seeing these.

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  13. Fantastic looking setup will follow blog from now on......:)

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  14. Hi
    Really great to see this all
    The knights are a lot of handsome,
    ;), Especially the blue-and-white coloring is awesome
    But most of all, I like these really well-made buildings

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  15. Thanks for a great write up and a jolly nice gaming session.

    It was great to finally get to field Birger and his host in a "proper" game, or two as it were, even if the first one was somewhat of a fiasco. However, in the end all was good and the king's men could at last feast on some well deserved pork and beer.

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    1. I think we did well in the end, first Victory for the Kings men in ages...

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  16. Thank you all for all very nice comments! Very appreciated indeed !!

    Best regards Michael

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  17. You are really working your way through this campaign Michael. Superb looking pictures.

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