{"id":11665,"date":"2026-06-20T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T09:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/?p=11665"},"modified":"2026-06-21T23:23:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T22:23:00","slug":"a-most-ignoble-feud-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2026\/06\/20\/a-most-ignoble-feud-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"A Most Ignoble Feud – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Andy reports on the first day of a Barons’ War mini campaign (with comments<\/span> from Stephen)<\/em><\/p>\n

Stephen and I arranged to play the Barons War \u201cA Most Ignoble Feud<\/a>\u201d mini campaign. This comprises of three linked battles of 500 points, 750 points and 1000 points.<\/p>\n

The campaign gives army lists for both commanders in each battle, it was written for edition 1 of the rules and we have moved on to edition 2 so we decided to create our own lists, to the original points values. In the original campaign one side has a number of militant monks in their force, so we kept that requirement, together with the requirement to have 10% of a retinue made up of Green troops.<\/p>\n

Stephen\u2019s force was led by Baron Stephen le Tookere, ably assisted by one of his retainers Willard of Wickham. Andy\u2019s force was led by Sir Andrew Fitzroi, supported by his Sergeant at Arms and half-brother Geoffrey Fitzroi, which had the contingent of monks.<\/p>\n

The reason for the enmity between Baron Stephen and Sir Andrew was an incident during a hunting party where the Baron accused Sir Andrew of trespassing on his lands, an accusation Sir Andrew firmly rejected.<\/p>\n

Battle 1 The Ambush.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Objectives and Victory Conditions<\/p>\n

Sir Andrew must fight off the ambushers and escape the battlefield via the board edge opposite their deployment zone, and scores VP based on the points values of all his Warriors that escape the battlefield, doubling the amount of any commanders.<\/p>\n

Baron Stephen must try and kill all the opposition, and scores points values of the enemy Warriors his Retinue slays during the battle, doubling the value of any Commanders.<\/p>\n

The scenario specifies that the game lasts 5 turns, with a sixth turn available if any unit has a chance of exiting the table. We considered that somewhat challenging considering the distance the defenders would have to move, 7 turns of normal movement for the slowest foot assuming no combat, so we amended that to 9 to 10 turns.<\/p>\n

(Stephen: seems strange this wasn\u2019t picked up in play testing. With just 5 turns to get off table they would have to Run for every activation and couldn\u2019t stop to fight or shoot arrows. That\u2019s extremely unlikely and wouldn\u2019t make for a fun game. Hence we increased turns, which would still make it difficult for that ne\u2019er-do-well poacher, Sir Andrew).<\/span><\/p>\n

Baron Stephen\u2019s Retinue<\/p>\n