Game 1 round 1 last night.
Based on our instructions to the GM I ended up defending one of my five strongholds, I 5 points of warriors and 1 of levy and a non heroic warlord to do it with. I had 4 points of mounted Hearth Guard, 1 point of warriors with X Bows and 1 point of Levy with bow.
The GM has his Irish attack my lads, he was warlord, 1 point of levy slings, 1 point of levy javelin, 2 points of Heart Guards with Dane axes and 2 points of warriors with javelins.
Terrain was pre set up with 3 difficult hills and two lots of rocky ground, I was not sure I would have a good time here.
Got lucky with some great dice early on and shot off a unit of levy with javelins over a few turns, I had to load up everything on shooting but as I had no intention of heading into uneven terrain I had dice to spare. I did need to be careful with moving near terrain as ending a move within S would mean a hail of stones.
Levy with slings came out of terrain to reach me and shot off three warriors but then got taken down to one man with a couple of units of warrior units. Took out another unit of warriors with archery. His HG charges but ireacted to get away so he sent in his warlord who I managed to kill.
I got Irish down to 3 dice being generated so won game under campaign rules.
I had lost 9 warriors which GM will roll to see how many are permenant losses, given I slaughtered his attacking force I am sure he will be super kind to me.
Another Norman force this time attacking cook out some Scots to win a new territory. The Anglo Danes lost a territory to the Pagan Rus and the Umayeds managed to hold off some Irish.
Good turn 1 but I am advised there is a que to attack me as everyone went for my territories hoping to take me put before I can do the dirty on anyone.