ACOTS 2015 Day 3

Easter Sunday is our traditional die hard wargamer day where the 'remainders' continue to wargame. I set up a four way medieval game for Matt, Jamie, Steve and Dave while Bob watched  and gave his August observations. 

We used my rules that partly grew out of 'Chain mail' rules and uses 12 sided dice.

The armies were distributed according to dice rolls. Mat had the Fezians, made up of the most units but lacking in archers and armor, except for a few units of plate armor and chain-mail. Jamie, who was opposite Mat had the Beersteiners with a number of crusaders and some sold archery units. At the opposite end from Jamie were Steve's Bogavanians, a smaller army but possessing some strong units of halberds and knighs. Opposite Steve was a Hill Men army allied to Mongol archers and some renegade light long bowmen.

 

Each of the four sides were given secret objectives, the major ones that became fairly obvious as sacred sites. Bogavanians had a sacred mushroom site, the Beersteiners the church rion with cross, the Fezians a mosque and the Hill Men a gargoyle type statue in a rocky outcrop. Whenever a side had its holy place to iself it could force another player to re-roll initiative order.

Whoever had his own site at the end of the game got 50 points. Additional objectives were to be at the opposite side of the board at the end of the game, to kill commanders from other sides or to wipe out particular units. Steve had an objective of burning down a Hill Man village, which he did after apparently allying with them against Fezians and Beersteiners. The latter two finally stopped killing each other to face this new united threat, too late and were gradually decimated but then the Hill men and Bogavanans had also begun to fight each other.

In the end the Bogavanians prevailed, followed by the Hill Men in second place.