Raid at the City of Palma Córdoba : Al Andalus

Played a little while ago we had another small run out of my Al Andalus campaign. This battle saw a small raiding force from the neighboring city state of Seville, raiding the lands around the border city of Palma (later Palma del Rio) in Córdoba. Using Lion Rampant there were 6 different objectives to be captured and taken back to our respective baselines. The challenge being the actually value of each objectives between 1 and 3 being hidden until captured. The battle was quite frenetic so the few pictures I took will have to tell the story 🙂

The Seville force enters at the gallop, both taifa are Muslim at this point but have employed small numbers of mercenaries 

The objectives are arranged along the centre line in the dry wadi and represented by sheep or camels etc the city walls of Palma in the distance

In the initial phases the Córdoba force captures the objective on their right only to be beaten back by the enemy horse archers

An objective captured on the right but can they defend it against the enemy cavalry

Once captured of course the challenge is getting back to the baseline without being cut down

As always happens once a couple of objective are captured it becomes a real fight for the centre

Abd-al Qasim can be seen here galloping off to the right 

The mercenary cavalry is now in a position to control the centre....

But the Palma residents have already brought back one of the camels 

Some elite Sevillian guard have their eye on mutton for tea

Another objective brought back safely to the city walls

In the end is was a good victory to the men from Córdoba with the majority of the loot being rescued and brought back to the city.

An enjoyable battle, entertaining without being too complex. I need to write some more scenarios which can be upscaled to bigger battles.thanks for looking 👍