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Toni Sihvonen (order #92780) 6
Round 2: Either flee as mandated above, or decide
between encourage your own men, rally fleeing
forces, or voluntarily flee.
Flee: Any leader can flee voluntarily, which adds another
-2 to the Rout Total modifier for the remaining characters.
Rally fleeing forces: Roll Walorous or Orate plus Rout
Total. Your results modify the Rout Total, which can
recover cowards, or create more of them, increasing or
reducing the Rout Total for the next round. (Continuing
the example above, three men try to rally fleeing forces,
scoring 1 Success for +I and 2 Failures for -2. This net -1
increases the Rout Total to -7, and means that one more
force must flee. If you decided to encourage your own
men, you do not roll now, but may be forced to flee by
this outcome.)
Encourage your own men: Roll Walorous or Orate plus
Rout Total. Modify their Follower’s Fate Roll according to
your roll: Critical +lo. Success: +5. Failure: 0 Fumble: -51
At the end of the round, roll for your Follower’s Fate,
modified by the Rout Total. “Losses” are subordinates
who run away.
Round 3: As above. If you choose the same action (rally
or encourage) a second time, you gain a +3 modifier to
your skill. Forces still fleeing at the end of this round cannot
be rallied.
Round 4+: The enemy arrives and the skirmish starts.
Roll First Round Battle. Odds are 3-2 against your starting
forces, before anybody fled: this may make current odds
worse than 3-2. The Rout Total still applies. The melee
continues for ld6 rounds. Fleeing forces make Follower’s
Fate rolls for each of those rounds.
Aftermath: Non fleeing forces roll a final Follower’s
Fate. If all followers are gone, leaders are killed or captured:
if any followers remain, the enemy falls back. Gain
10 Glory for every round in which you did not flee, and
5 Glory per 5% of your followers still intact at the beginning
of round 4. Remember to gain glory from Skill use,
x2 if you rallied fleeing forces.
Attack the Horsemen!
Situation: An enemy duke Fumbles his Battle roll: instead
of charging, his knights mill around in front of the Saxon
lines, losing control of their mounts. Your leader
announces a (very rare) foot charge against horsemen.
You are outnumbered 3-2, but the knights’ disorder cancels
out their mounted superiority (Total Modifiers: -3).
Round 1: The Saxon leader and his immediate neighbors
bellow their war cries and charge. More men join the
charge, gathering into a wecg with the leader at its apex.
Roll to form wecg. Wecg Formation: page 1261
Round 2: The point of the wecg crashes into the swirling
mass of horsemen. Only characters with Critical wecg
results can fight. Their mounted targets must each test
[Horsemanship -10: Critical, Success = fight normally;
Failure = unhorsed, fight at -5: Fumble = thrown from
horse for 2d6 damage ignoring armor, fight at -101. Work
out melees.
Each standing, dismounted man (friend or foe) is also
attacked this round by a panicked horse [Kick at 5: damage
5d61, while prone men suffer [Trample at 10; 6d6
damage]. The British will ignore the horse attacks (making
them unopposed): Saxons can do the same, or allocate
part of their skills to fending off the horses.
Round 3: As above: only characters with Successful or
better wecg results can fight.
Round 4: As above: all characters can fight. Continue
until you obtain 2-1 odds in your favor, at which point
the knights flee.
Aftermath: Gain normal Glory for defeating a knight,
+10 for the unusual situation. Roll Battle twice: each
Success gives you a knightly captive, and each Critical
gives you two. (Saxons should pass Forgiving to save each
captive for ransom - if they fail that, and pass Vengeful,
the have killed the captive.) Roll Follower’s Fate, as usual.