A Dark Age Terror !

Who thought zombies were a modern invention ! Looking for a quick set up game Paul was keen to get is developing undead/zombie force on the battlefield. What better than to put them against a small Norman force. The obvious back story for the game involves the Norman invasion, the catastrophic defeat of the Saxons at the battle of Hastings. The Saxon mystics and necromancers have called back from the dead Some of Harold’s troops to punish the Normans.

In this particular scenario the undead Saxon horde is looking to defile a religious cross as soon as they reach the cross the game will end. The Normans must defend at all costs. We used Dragon Rampant rules.

A small force of Normans hold the cross the rest must enter from their baseline

A shambling horde of Zombies.....raised from the bog 

The evil horde...including a necromancer !

Initially thing don’t go well for the Normans, and the troops holding the cross are dangerous isolated, reinforcements unable to get close

Choosing attack the knights ‘wild charge’ into the trees

This leaves the cross only defended by a single spearmen unit they quickly form into a solid shield wall to but are out numbered and the cross is undefended

....and then the knights charge back out from the trees....alle’

Charging into the rear of the elite undead they ride them down (an unlucky double one roll) sees them crumble at a crucial moment

Eventually the giant butcher is left on his own and the relics remains untainted.

It was a fairly quick game so we did reset on another scenario, where I didn’t take many photos.....the Normans came out on to again. Our conclusion that undead forces don’t really work that well in Dragon Rampant rules and require a bit of tweaking. But a couple of fun games 😀 I might be tempted to create a small dark age undead force....I have quite a lot of spare dark age bits so would only need the dead bits....🤔