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Waelstowe - solo wargaming in the Dark Ages
Battle on the river Stour
Hyffaid, lead of the men of Dyfed (south Wales) catches sight of Edmund and Wilfrith on the low hills about the river Stour
Gwir, as expected is one of the first to become the focus of the story (activate) and rushes into the woods, keen to get to grips with the Anglians
The flaw in Edmund's plan. Fate decreed that, as expected the Welsh Heroes acted first, but when Edmund met Hyffaid and Gwir, Wilfrith couldn't manage to join him. Edmund had two face the two Welsh Heroes alone.Waelstowe is a rules lite game I’ve been creating and modifying for a while now. It is card driven, with the cards showing which Hero activates (is the Focus of the Story) and what actions he can do. In the case of Non Player Armies, it has an ordered list of actions, and the human player (me?) works his way down the list choosing which are the most appropriate.
The game is chiefly about Heroes and the whole idea of keeping it rules-lite is to basically use the game as the ‘engine’ for creating stories – the cards and rules throw up the skeleton of a play, which I flesh out. To help me get in the spirit of things, I invariably have some very early Gregorian chant playing in the background and some ale in my hand.
Finally Wilfrith urges his men off their hill and engage with the Welsh of Hyffaid. The charge of the Anglians smashes into the Welsh and all Hyffaids warriors and kinsmen forsake him. Hyffaid, alone and injured, fights on, like one of the knights of King Arthur he claims descent fromAnd that’s were it all went wrong for the Anglians. Wifrith’s men baulked at attacking this mad Welsh knight, so Wifrith himself rushed in, twice. Wilfrith lost contact with his Kinsmen and found himself alone against Hyffaid. Hyffaid, although injured by Wilfrith, managed to fell Wilfrith. At this point a large number of the Anglians ran off and the Welsh secured an unlikely victory.
It was also the end of Edmund the Elder, he’d lost his claim to Anglia. So I decided to start with another main Hero.
Really loving this! This really makes me want to play out the Gododdin themed battles I’ve been dreaming about for a long time. Is your ruleset shareable? Or do you have other plans with them?
Hi Ionkelo,
I sent you a pm
Regards,
Stephen
Oh hey! I come from Stourbridge so this is epic! Very cool read 🙂