Pen to swords

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 After a rather uneventful period of gaming I decided to try my hand at a fictional scuffle between some Welsh, Saxons and Vikings.  I first had the Saxons on the offensive at the boarders “Ravens peak”. This saw the Saxon forces fighting through the enemy only to be called to defend a Viking raid.



The Saxons faced quite overwhelming odds and secured their path to face the threat of the northmen.  They have a fair size force to meet the Viking raiders but leave the mighty Owain alive at Ravens hills, could this be a mistake? Only time will tell!

I decided to fall back on a game of 3x3 portable wargame for the raid, as I could not get the right feel out of the off set square route.  The poor Saxons were a bit out of breath and time but got there to do something at least.

The Saxons race to Sandway only to find the Vikings already there! Taking their vengeance out on Ivars force they could not quite get to Bjorn’s force who had the time to escape with loot!

The Saxons of Wessex will probably have to deal with the Welsh again but also some more common enemy trying to push for more land from the Eastern parts as they would think them sufficiently weakened for this.  

All in all it’s given me something to aim for from this simple premise.  The story so far has a bit of scope to it too.


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