Toni Sihvonen (order #92780) 62.142.248.1

Toni Sihvonen (order #92780) 6
Boat Prices
Boat
cost
Rowboat
1 Od
10 oars If
20 oars 4f
30 oars (the typical Saxon boat) 10f
40 oars 20f
and draws only four feet when loaded (that is, it can raid
inland up a six-foot-deep river). Its crew can be halved
(to draw less water) or tripled; treat every 350 Ibs. of
cargo as another passenger,
Lordly Domains for Saxons
This section details additions and changes to the rules in
Lordly Domains for GMs who want to use that supplement
with Saxons!.
Land Terminology: This is less well defined than in feudal
society. Roughly, thegns equate to knights or bannerets,
aethelings and ealdormen to bannerets or barons,
and cynings to counts or dukes. Of the Saxon cyningdoms
in 518, Anglia equates to a duchy, while all the others are
equivalent to counties.
Historically, no Saxon leader holds a major city for very
long; Eburacum and London were held for a few years,
and Lincoln was repeatedly besieged but never taken.
Should a cyning take one of these cities, his holding
would become a Lordly Domains kingdom.
Thegn’s Holding: Five hides (the basic thegn’s holding)
equates to 1 POP A Saxon POP varies from 80-120 peasants
living in a town, with the remainder in farming
steads: each stead has from 20 to 80 inhabitants, counting
men, women, children, and slaves. Because a thegn’s
POP is more scattered and rural than in a manor, reverse
the “Food” and “Goods” columns of the Manor
Population and Income Table (Lordly Domains page 14)
and the Settlement Income Table (Lordly Domains page
18). One hide is nominally worth 12f.
Retinue: A thegn’s retinue is his heorthwerod - poor,
landless thegns. A higher leader’s heorthgeneats are still
landless, but better equipped.
Heorthgeneat Support Table
Quality Food Coin
Ceorl Sf .5f
Poor Thegn lf If
Landed Thegn 2f 2f
Heorthgeneat 3f 3f
Defensive Works
Wattle Fence [DV 0, Cost If per Area, height 3’1 Posts
driven into the ground with willow or other flexible
branches woven between them. When defended, it gives
a reflexive +/-2 to attack. It can be quickly destroyed by
an axe. It keeps animals in, or out, as desired.
Mixed Wall/Palisade [DV 4, Cost 4f per Area, Height
6‘-20’ ] Gaps in an existing Roman wall can be filled in
with a wooden palisade backed with rubble. This is a
compromise between a true wall, and a true wooden palisade,
cheaper than either because the majority of the
work is already in place.
Mead Hall [DV 3, Cost 5-lOf] The gathering place for
the lord’s heorthwerod, the mead-hall can also act as a
refuge during a siege. Unfortunately, most are wooden,
and can be set afire with relative ease. More expensive
mead-halls are larger and more ornate. Heorot, the
mead-hall of King Hrothgar of the Danes, is reputed to be
roofed in gold. A tremendous expense, but a most
Glorious one.
Siege Equipment: Saxons neither have nor need complicated
siege equipment. Any army can create impromptu
siege equipment at the rate of 1 point per 100 men per
day: this gear only reduces the DV of wooden fortifications.
It includes scratch-built ladders that can aid an
assault.
Heorthgeneats as Squires
A heorthgeneat can perform the battle duties of a
Pendragon squire, based on his Awareness rather than his
age. However, heorthgeneats are not lackeys, and will
not polish armor, groom horses, skin deer, or fetch
weapons used only for sport. Richer Saxon nobles may
have squire-like armed servants for these duties.