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Toni Sihvonen (order #92780) 6
along with enough enemies to maintain the correct odds.
Round 6: All surviving foes from your first position now
reach the rescue area, adding their numbers to the enemies
there. Increase the odds one level.
Round 7: Still more foes arrive, increasing the odds
another level against you. At the end of this round, a foe
who feigned death tries to back-stab your lord. If you are
not now engaged, roll [Battle or Awareness: Critical =
your presence at your lord’s back foils the attempt:
Success = You can try to foil the attempt with an attack
roll at -5: Otherwise you can’t help]. If this villainy is not
prevented, your lord is mortally wounded.
Round 8+: Friendly reinforcements draw enemies away
from the rescue area, reducing the odds by two levels in
your favor. Once you have dispatched the remaining foes
the skirmish ends and you can return to your own lines.
If the lord was stabbed, Critical First Aid by one unengaged
character in this round stabilizes him; otherwise he
is dying. Either way, he must be helped away by a character
whose combat skills will be halved for dragging a
casualty.
Aftermath: You saved your lord if you defeated all his
attackers by Round 6, or foiled the murder at the end of
Round 6. You must also make it back to your own lines.
Gain +25 Glory if you were first to your lord’s side, +lo0
more Glory if he survives, and +50 if you foiled the murder.
Roll Follower’s Fate normally.
Otherwise, your lord dies. Proceed to the “Death of a
Saxon Lord” event for the next Battle Round.
Capture the Flag
Situation: This is a variation on “Rescue,” above. Instead
of seeing your lord in peril, you see the banner of an
enemy lord exposed to capture by his sloppy charge. To
capture it, an otherwise unengaged man must wrest it
from the standard bearer, then return to his own lines. In
Round 7, a stunned enemy recovers and tries to rescue his
flag under the same rules as the lord’s murder, above. He
will escape with the flag if he is not defeated that round.
Whoever carries or grabs the flag must use either his
shield hand (-5 to skills, shield armor halved, Strength x
3/4 to keep the flag), his weapon hand (can use only the
Defense tactic: Strength x 3/4 to keep the flag), or both
hands (can use only the Defense tactic, with +5 instead of
+10 modifier: shield armor halved: full Strength).
Capture the Flag
Critical: You wrest the flag from its bearer, knocking
him down.
Success: Gain a +/-5 reciprocal bonus to attacks and STR
contests next round - if you keep fighting the
bearer. These bonuses accumulate with no upper
limit.
Tied: Inconclusive. Continue next round.
BeatedFailed: -/+5 penalty, as per “Success.”
Fumb1ed:The foe rips the flag away, knocking you down.
Modifiers to Strength: +5 if you beat the bearer in that
round’s melee; -5 if he beat you.
Attempts to control the flag follow melee attacks each
round, pitting Strength vs. Strength in opposed resolution.
Up to two friends and two foes can grab the flag at once.
Each side rolls combined STR vs. STR against the enemy.
The +/- modifiers obtained thereby accumulate, and will
apply next round to every flag contestant on that side.
Suggested Enemy Force: A great enemy lord and his
suite of Old, Notable, and Famous knights. Odds are 3-2
in your favor, but the foe is formidable (Total Modifier: -
2)
The knights you encounter in melee will be Old, but reinforcements
will be Notable after Round 3, and Famous
after Round 5. The enemy lord and his standard bearer
are Famous. The stunned knight in Round 7 counts as
Old.
Aftermath: Gain +15 Glory per round that you have a
hand on the flag. +lo0 Glory, and + or -6 (in your favor)
on the next Unit Event roll if you capture it.
Death of a Saxon Lord
Situation: Your lord falls from a mortal blow, and calls
for his heorthwerod (and other followers) to avenge him.
Meanwhile, enemy nobles rush in to exploit the Saxon
loss: they are better in either equipment or numbers (GM
must determine). (Total Modifiers: -5)
Round 1: Give the lord a grand death scene and a final
speech, perhaps culling phrases from Beowulf or “The
Battle of Maldon.” Roll his Oratory (if unknown, it is 17).
[Loyalty (Lord), +5 if he made a Critical Oration, +10