TTS AAR: Vikings vs Vikings Again
/The first battle in a marathon day that would see me playing To The Strongest six times was a repeat of the Vikings vs Vikings game I’d had against Bevan a week ago.
Well, not exactly the same, as Bevan had somewhat altered the make up of his army: now he dispensed with any Huscarls and Irish, and just fielded as many Bondi units as he could.
Shot from behind my battle line
My plan was to hold the hill on my left flank whilst advancing strongly with my right. The hill was soon occupied and my men surged forward on the other side of the table determined to win there before returning to mop up the centre and left.
My left flank was soon heavily under siege, but some good work with the lights meant that I was holding the ground without much difficulty. It was also here that the first of the enemy commanders was killed, by arrows IIRC. I would go on to kill all wound all of his commanders: a major factor in my eventual victory.
The right was now engaged as well with, apart from killing/wounding another enemy general, mixed success.
Fortunately my units in the centre were able to defeat the two shieldwall units in front of them and this, combined with some other successes and, as I said, the taking out of every enemy commander, meant that I had done enough to send the rest of the enemy Vikings flying from the field.
With one victory each, the stage was now set for the decider…
