Saturday, August 02, 2025

Ruckus: St Elmo's Friar (Men-at-arms in motion)

For July's game we played a game of Here's the Ruckus, featuring our newly-painted figures (with FG completing six sergeant figures just the night before!).

The scenario is centred around a walled church model that I got on a trade many years ago, and has the attackers trying to kill a "turbulent priest" residing in the church, while the defenders must try to hold the attackers off until reinforcements arrive.

I made up some rules for battering down the gate, and used the basic Ruckus rules otherwise.

The defenders barricade to the gate to the church, while crossbowmen stand on crates to shoot at the attackers

Attackers come with scaling ladders and a battering ram. Brace!

Baron Hugh de Sappointment fends off the would-be priest-killers

The gate is finally breached!

The game was pretty straight-foward once the attackers chose their sites of attack and the defenders decided not to launch a sortie. Still, we had fun pushing the figures around and rolling dice.

I plan to do a scenario with mounted troops next game, to try the mounted rules. Stay tuned!

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