Håtunaleken, Lion Rampant, AAR #9

Last week I and some of my club mateys continued our Lion Rampant campaign, the Swedish Games of Throne, "Håtunaleken" Håtuna-Games. 

This time the Swedish King Birger at last had showed up with his Knights to lead his allies against his evil little brothers Valdemar and Erik that was very keen to get the Swedish Kingdom for them selfs.

The objective of the game was to controll the 2 bridges and the ford. In the beginning of your turn that one of your sides units was in the middle of any of the objective they would get a Glory point, when one side have got 15 glory in total the game would end. 

OOB´s 

The Rebell Brothers: 

House of Bjälbo (Duke Valdemar), Top left

1x6 Mounted Knights @ 6pts 

1x6 Foot Knights @ 6pts 

2x12 Foot Serjants with Mixed weapons @ 6pts each

House of Algotssönerna, Middle left

1x6 Foot Knights @ 6pts 

1x12 Foot Serjants with Mixed weapons @ 6pts 

House of Trolle, Bottom, Top, right

1x6 Mounted Knights @ 6pts 

1x12 Foot Serjants @ 4pts

1x6 Bidowers @ 2pts

The Kings men: 

House of Bjälbo (King Birger), Top, right 

1x6 Mounted Knights, Drilled @ 7pts 

1x6 Foot Knights @ 6pts 

1x12 Foot Serjants @ 4pts

1x12 Foot Yeomen with Mixed weapons @ 5pts

1x6 Bidowers @ 2pts 

House of Ulvåsa, Bottom, right

4x12 Foot Yeomen with Mixed weapons @ 5pts each

2x6 Bidowers @ 2pts each

Retinue from the House of Ulvåsa

Swift movement by the Allmoge from the house of Ulvåsa... 1 Glory to King Birger !

Foot serjants from the House of trolle hesitated to advance against the cheering Allmoge...

King Birger and his retinue was very confident that this would be an easy victory...

The foot serjants from the House of Trolle needed to quickley clere the bridge from the Allmoge or the Kings side would collect even more Glory...

The rebells had made general advances all over their line, but on the Kings side only the retinue of the House of Ulvåsa had made any progress, the Kings Retinue stod still...could there be that he was saving his troops for later and letting the House of Ulvåsa do the dirty work alone...

Dirty work or not, the allmoge got real cleadned up when the House of Trolle puched them in to the stream... 

The allmoge thought hart but the better armour of the Foot serjants really made a big difference...

With the first group of allmoge on the run the defence was left to some skirmishers that needed to faceoff the Trolle Knights...

Knight Gudmar sees the risk of loosing the bridge and moves forward with more allmoge to support the skirmishers...

But it is to late as the Trolle Knights manage to cross the steam and charge the poor skirmishers that dosen´t manage to evade the attack...

One lonely skirmishers manage to escape in to the forest to set up his last defence...

Eager by their victory the Trolle knights charges the second skirmish group but are lured in to the forest for the fight...

The skirmishers manage to slay two of the Trolle Knights and buy the House of Ulvåsa some time to bring forward the reinforecements...

By the center bridge the House of Algotssönerna have managed to get a ugroup of Foot Knights on to the bridge, starting to chear about glory.... The Allmoge from borth House of Ulvåsa and the King start to shoot at them but to no vain...

Duke Valdemar have secured the Northern ford...

Knight Gudmar from the House of Ulvåsa start to question the Kings plan as his have just made very small moves with a few of his groups and most of them are just sitting the battle out... 

Will the king one again betray one of his loyal subjects ?

Foot troops for the House of Trolle secure the south bridge...

Desperate by his hard pressed situation Knight Gudmar from the House of Ulvåsa issue a chalange of single combat to Knight Birger from the House of Trolle, that accept the chalange...

Meanwhile the northern ford and the center bridge are even more secured bu the rebells... and the Kings retinue just look on...

Knight Gudmas made a heroic defens on foot with his grandfathers battleax but was rode down and defeated by Knight Birger from the House of Trolle...

Knight Gudmars defeate really chocked the retinue of House Ulvåsa that started to retreat...

Foot knight of the House of Algostsönerna have taken some small casulties due to the allmoge shooting but they still posess the bridge...

King Birgers allmoge did all of his retinues fighting...or should I say shooting as the Kings retine didn´t draw blood in close combat even one... The Kings, not so brave, Foot Knights was just hiding behind the Allmoge...

With all the crossings secured the rebell brother under command of Duke Valdemar won the day... The House of Ulvåsa are in despair, but the King Birger had all his shiny Knights and soldiers left to fight a nother day...

This was a very nice game, much of the action was between the House of Ulvåsa and the House of Trolle. The King probably didnt have a plan to stand back, at least he claim that... and his extreamly poor activation rolls to prove it I suppose...