This in turn requires a bit more space so this battle is back on the card table and not on the floating grid. Previously I learned that conventional figure bases are necessary in battles that have a hand-to-hand element. Arthur is on the north side (left in the picture) and Uhtred is coming up from the south (right side). King Arthur is defending Britain against a Saxon invasion led by Uhtred the eldest. The English attack the western Danes on the flank. The first picture shows the flanking and frontal attacks have begun.
The cavalry on both sides are holding themselves in reserve. They will attack the hill frontally and also flank the east and west sides of it. Note: north is to the left in the pictures. They will form shield walls in face-to-face battles. Cavalry units travel fast but are assumed to dismount and fight on foot when they see an opportunity for a flank attack.
The archers actually are skirmishers throwing javelins. Ubba will attempt to take the hill.Īll units will form shield walls when fighting face to face. English forces will stay on the hill as long as they can.
I am using Scenario 4 from One Hour Wargames, so there are no boats. In Cornwell's story, the English forces are on a hill but they descend to set fire to the Danish boats. This plot line is taken from the popular series about Uhtred authored by Bernard Cornwell. In this scenario, Uhtred of Bebbanburg, a descendant of the first Uhtred, is leading the English forces in a battle against the fearsome Danish warrior, Ubba. A Saxon English king, Alfred, is defending against a Danish invasion. The Saxons succeeded in conquering most of England. In the previous post, Saxon invaders led by someone I called Uhtred were fighting the British king, Arthur. The Danes are mostly blue and the Saxons are mostly green. Two Saxon units are on the small hill to the south and four Saxon units are hidden on the east side. Scenario seven has a large hill on the north side. Still, I am able to mix them up somewhat and neither side has exactly the same mix of unit types in this battle. One Hour Wargames rules call for random selection of units, but I do not have enough of each to allow for that. Net result is warbands, cavalry, regular infantry and skirmishers.
This provides archers (assumed to be Dark Age skirmishers) and stick fighters (treated as regular infantry). This includes men with swords and axes (warband in the Dark Ages), spearmen (infantry) and a few archers. Airfix did not make Dark Age sets, so here is my substitution process: The reader may have noticed that I am using Airfix figures.
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