The Ambuch at Örkeljunga Church 1676

A teaser to our club game of Donnybrook tonight.

August 1676, the Swedish army was on the march to Halmstad to settle the scores with a Danish force under Commander Duncan that was on their way to seize the town Halmstad. 

This small scenario depicts an Ambush of a Swedish supply column that was awaiting new beasts of burden for the supply wagons. The animals should, according to the law, be provided by the local farmers. 

Most of the men in the Supply column are away to gather the reluctant farmers and their beasts. Just a few Swedish soldiers have been left to protect the supplies, it’s a perfect time for the Friskyttar to attack and destroy the supplies… 

Objectives 
The time are of importance as the foraging Swedish troops will soon be back the Danes just have 15 turns to accomplish their mission. There are 3 Wagons and one Artillery piece that need to be destroyed. To destroy a wagon or the artillery piece a Danish unit have to be in physical contact with the objective and as a activation succeed with a 6+ ability roll.

The Swedes have to stop them and resist until the Danes have to withdraw after 15 turns.

OOB - Swedish 
1x Hero - Lieutenant Johan Kruuse with the Dalregementet
1x8 Regular - Foot musketeers with a character, Sergeant Hård
1x4 Regular – Artillery and 4 crewmen and a character, Sergeant Kruut

Reinforcements (One unit arrives at the end of each turn in the order stated below)
1x4 Elite - Dragoons
1x8 Regular - Foot Pikemen with two characters, Ensign Skytte and Drummer Klang
1x8 Regular - Foot musketeers with a character, Sergeant Kvick
1x6 Regular – Cavalry with a character, Captain Löwenskiöld

OOB - Danish
1x Hero - Grenadier Lieutenant Nils Eskildsen (3 grenades)
1x8 Regular - Foot musketeers with a character, Ensign Olsen
2x8 Regular – Friskyttar, one group with Muskets and one with Göingebössor (Rifles). One group have a character, Scout Pher Månsson a.k.a. Uggletorparn
1x3 Elite - Cavalry with a character, Captain Madsen

Lieu of Character
Hide out – Due to their knowledge of the land the two units of Friskyttar may use the Hide out rule from the outlaw Faction (Page 48 in the Donnybrook rules).


Skånelängor
I hope you have noticed the stunning "Skånelängor" that I my friend Mattias at Northern Wargaming have build and been kind enought to lend to me for tonights game ! I wanted to get a even better Skåne feel for tonights game as we expect some foreign visit for the game ;)

Please make sure to visit Mattias blog Northen Wargaming to see some WIP pictures of his house build.

Snapphanar

I painted some Danish reinforcements for our planed club game on tuesday next week, there will be some Scanian War 1675-79 fighting using the Donnybrook rules.

These will act as Snapphanar/Free shooters for the Danes in their struggle against the Swedes.

The minis I got from my friend Sören and I think they are from the Perry ECW range.

Medieval Donnybrook AAR #2

Second game of Medieval Donnybrook, this time I and Jonas tested to use the Donnybrook rules for my Kalmar Union War setting, we used the same OOB as in the first game but I had to alter the terrain a bit to get my newly built church in:)

I also switched side so I comanded the Unionists this time, hoping it all to end in a better way...

Main road between Västerås and Uppsala...

The Archbishop Jöns Bengtsson, House of Oxenstierna lead his Knechts forward Västerås to subdue the rebelion...

The rebellious Nils Bosson Sture, House of Natt och Dag, marches with his Darlecarlian allmoge troops forward Uppsala to once for all settles the score with the belligirent Archbishop...

Not expecting any trouble...

The rebels have the peoples support...

Swift movement by the Mounted Knechts as well as the pikearmed ones all in open order... A small group of handgunner protect their left flank...

Open order movement makes the troops to get to the action faster;)

...sometimes to fast...

The foot knechts slowley advance...even in open order...

I like the idea with open/closed order and the effect on the movement, open order gives a unit 50% longer move, could be really usefull to get in to the right possition fast and them reform in to close order to get the combat and morale benefits, but be sure not to get caight in open order by a unit in close order...

...much due to the Archbishops focus of geting himself and the mounted crossbowmen in to troubble...or could it be that the Rebells Lawspeaker Hans Djäkn have convinsed the mercenarys not to fight it out this day...

...also the rebels have got more allmoge troops as well as a small gun that some what intimidate the Archbishop that halt the advance of the mounted knecht in the open...

Nils Bosson Sture order his allmoge to form a close order battleline on the far side of a small hill...

The Archbishop respond by forming a close order battleline with his mounted knechts...and awaits the arrival of the pikemen...

Battlelines on both sides forming up...

Muuuuu !!! all COWards are puched away so the knechts can advance...

Rebel artillery seal of the approach rout on the rebels left flank...

As the allmoge advance up on the small hill the mounted knechs cant wait any longer and makes a charge...

The allmoge holds for the charge all due to the banner of St. Olof, they also manage to retaliate...

The unionists get even more reinforcements as a smal group of Frälse (Knights) arrives on their left flank...

The Archbishop and his knecht fight on but the allmoge are to many...

...the last mounted knechts are defeated and the Archbishop are struck unconscious and taken prisoner...

...things are geting even worse for the Unionist as a new group of allmoge, with the traditional darlecarlian "spelmän" in the lead, arrives on their right flank...

...one of the clerics bost the morale for the bu shooting depleted unit of pikemen...

In the center the second unit of unionist pikemen attacks Nils Boson Sture and the remaining allmoge on the hill...

We allow pikes to fight in 3 ranks if in Close Order

Stand of...the allmoge continues to shoot at the pikemen that dosent seems to be able to gather the courage or initiative to attack...

Also the unionist Frälse have got in to the fray...as Nils Boson Sture as a true swedish hero all alone fight of the unionist pikemen...

To be a Hero in good armor gives you the oportunety to be a real hero:)

The shooting was to much, or the rebels Lawspeaker Hans Djäkn´s words was to good, for the second pikmen unit that brakes and leave the field...

...this was to much for the unionist that decided to call it a day and retreat to Uppsala starting the negotation to get the Archbishop released...

One more very nice game of Medieval Donnybrook, I really like the fact that you can use character to influense the game, like the rebels Lawspeaker Hans Djäkn that last time diden´t get much done but this time managed to get one unit of the unionists pikemen not to do their best (downgraded from D8 to D6...)

I feel that the rules realy would improve by having a designated umpire as there are things that are not 100% clere in the rules and you need to decide from time to time what would be the most likely event to happen. A umpire would also give more oportunety for "roleplay" during the games.

More Medieval Donnubrook to come, also from Saxon Dog, please make his blog a visit to if you by some strange way have missesd it...

Thanks for reading and looking at my pictures I hope you had a good time. Welcome back and have a really nice day !!!

Medieval Church Finished...

At last !!!

After about 2 month of building I have finished my Medieval Church, inspired by the Harkaker church (Haraker kyrka in Swedish), Västmanland County in Sweden and also the location for the Battle at Haraker in april 1464, more about that later...  Now a bunch of pictures of the finished church.