Franks on the Frontier

Pasha Dan was available Saturday night for a game and he'd been working on a host of Migration Era Franks. So he brought them over for a game of Midgard. 

His army mustered in at 450 pts and 11 Reputation. So I jigged the list for my A&A 3rd century Romans to match.

Some of Dan's Franks. He's gotten them all very nice sabot bases now, instead of the bare card you saw in previous games.

My cavalry wing maneuvers against Dan's wing that has a unit of mounted Nobles. I'm using the glass beads for Mighty Deed tokens. Dan is using replica ancient coins.

Center and left closing. You can see my super posh square of cereal box that is the "Killing Zone" template. Dice in the holders are marking stamina hits.

My cavalry have gotten stuck in and as you can see are taking a lot of hurt, but so are the Franks

Disaster! Equus is alone, his horsemen dead around him. I should have challenged the Frankish chieftain to Single Combat, which might have at least gained me a Reputation Point before he died.

Oof! Worst "Risk to Heroes" roll ever! Centurion Secundus goes down. The Roman numeral dice are from Dan. Felt nice to roll, but took some getting used to to read. A couple of times 'IV' instead of 'VI' was an issue.

Pushing hard in the center. Carolianus is in the upper right leading a century against the Frankish King and his hearthguard

Pushing hard on the left too. The arrows are my super posh "winning/momentum" markers

The Frankish chieftain on the left, having destroyed my cavalry is now sweeping around to engulf my infantry. That lonely century, attacked front and flank manages to survive and hold out long enough.

Action in the center

The decision point. Eastern archers are getting stuck into hand to hand. Both sides are equal at 5 Reputation tokens still in their goblets.

The Frankish king (marked by the blue draco) takes a 3rd and final wound, causing Frankish Reputation to plummet!

In a desperate attempt to get some Reputation, Dan's mounted chieftain charges Carolianus and challenges him to single combat. Carolianus wins the fight!

All very exciting. At the end the Roman Reputation was still at 4 or 5, and the Frankish Reputation was now at -5. I'm sure I was helped by Dan operating under the dreaded New Army Curse. He'll probably thrash me next time.

I really do need to do a rummage through the Bitz Box and make some nicer "winning" and "shot" markers. And Stamina Loss markers. And measuring sticks. And maybe a nicer Kill Zone template.

But this was Game 15 for the year! I'm doing pretty good on that front for sure.