WAB Early Dark Ages Campaign Kick Off - 3/3/12

We kicked off a WAB Early Dark Ages Campaign today at The Game Matrix - only a few of us were able to make it - although a few others managed to swing by later. Pat L. is the GM and has prepared a great scenario. We all started out with a 1,500 point army using the new Armies of Antiquity list. Ron showed up with Vikings, James had his Early-Byzantines, Pat had a brand new (still in lead attire) Thematic Byzantine army (mainly Crusader Miniatures), and I morphed by Norman army into another Thematic Byzantine army. I scored the highest roll off to start the campaign and chose to take on Pat's army.

Taking good advice from Pat, I changed my second rank of cavalry to be armed with bows. I also fielded a foot unit with thrusting spears and darts. Now the darts sound really good on paper - no "to hit" penalties for movement or long range (12" range), yet I don't recall them causing any enemy casualties. This was due to a combination of my usual bad die rolls and the darts' strength 2. At least they had something to do during the Shooting phase. Our game ended in a tie - we both had suffered unit losses, yet retained possession of equal parts of the battlefield.

I didn't get a chance to watch Ron and James' game - but it ended with James' Early-Byzantines defeating their Viking opponents. I only managed to take one decent photo of their game. I did see that James did some serious cavalry maneuvering, as he had units all around the all-infantry Viking army.

I'm looking forward to our next meeting in a couple of weeks. Hopefully, more folks will show up for that one. Now back to painting up some Napoleonics.