Chronica Iohannis July 550AD

The second raid in our saga was an attack on a church, the Angles to the right got only 1 move at the start of the  game, but unlike the last game, the Britons got to place all their troops on the table except for the skirmishers.

Frenzied monks after hearing the Angles were coming (purely decorative).

Elites and warriors to the left and levy to the right.

The Angles are coming!

First turn card order from left to right.

End of turn 1 positions, the Angle elite have rapidly advanced to the left to hold off the  advancing Briton levy, while the warriors are heading straight for the church. 

Antoninus, the Briton tribune has rapidly advanced his elites with his levy in close pursuit.

The Briton's levy form a shield wall and advance toward the Angle elite to engage them in combat.  They take  1 shock for rough terrain and they play the Strong Arm card (which was a mistake, I played the whole game thinking that these were warriors and not levy), 3 shock applied.

A vicious combat takes place, the shieldwall is an enormous advantage to the Britons, as they can ignore the first kill on each group, and they also fortuitously for them throw very good dice. First round of combat is +1 dead for the Britons so a second round take place.

The Britons take shock but are able to kill two more Angles, this results in a  3+ dead in favour of the Britons and if you look closely not only rout but also misplace their amphora, they are out of the game. How about that..... levy defeating elite!

Iohannis himself now gets into the fight. See him to the centre background staying close to the  Tribune Antoninus as he leads his elites to attack the Angle warriors with his champion Uther.

The Angles are in disarray, the elites have been thrown back, as well as one unit of warriors.  All Alaric, the Angle warlord, has is 2 units of his warriors as well as his skirmishers, it just does not look good.

How the second turn played out.

And the morale of the Angles is down to one!

Cuthwin, Alaric's #2 man,  leads his warriors to attack the remaining Angle levy. He joins his men, but Cadog plays the Shieldwall Braced card, an invaluable card for the Britons.

As you can see the dice gods favour prefer neither side, they favour both. Both sides suffer multiple kills and suffer much shock, but the Shieldwall Braced card keeps the Cadog's levy in for a second round.

More are killed,  and Cuthin and his Angles are thrown back and rout.

Turn 3 sees an end to the game as Cuthin, Alaric's # 1 man routs off the table. .......

.............and the Angle's morale goes to zero! Raid over.

Raid 2 in our campaign results in a victory for the Britons. The Angles  suffer moderate losses so will raid again in October, the Britons suffer light losses, so will be ready and Antoninus now has a Prefect's Riches.