The first scenario featured our daughter as battle leader of the human village Larbro defending her people against the raiding orcs. She had to get a unit of women and children away from the sod huts, across the coast and into the woods.
Alarun rowed his forces in to quickly close with the warriors and attempt to capture the women.
This battle was to resolve what happened here in North Gautria while main characters were elsewhere on the map, and answer the age-old gaming question, “If a village is sacked and no player-character is there to witness it, does it really burn?”
Our daughter was an extremely good sport, as this was not a “fair” fight. She had 3 units of light infantry for the defense of Larbro and needed to hold for about 10 rounds to allow her civilians to escape. The orcs’ 3 units wore heavy armor and were outfitted for raiding, but one unit had to remain with the boats.
The orcs also had 2 urog heroes to Meav’s one bondi leader, who seemed a bit overwhelmed with his command.
She sent 2 units to the beach and kept her best unit back to screen the women and children, unwittingly leaving her battle leader unprotected after he issued the orders. (Mom’s bad! It was our daughter’s first Fantasy Warriors battle.)
The orcs disembarked while the urogs sprinted ahead to attack the human’s leader.
Alarun told my daughter all the bad things that would happen to that leader if she lost initiative next round.
And our youngest rolled lucky!
Meav moved her second bondi unit to intercept the charging urogs.
Her first unit engaged with the Nil-ith Horn (green & black) orcs took heavy losses and was destroyed. The veteran bondi stepped forward to confront the Valdgraf (red & black) unit and their ugly two-handed weapons, but the unruly Great Northern (brown) berserk orcs crashed through their line from behind, eager to fight the humans.
The women continued their fearful trek as the Nil-ith Horn soldiers marched on them. The human bondi and their battle leader fought the urogs with valor.
The bondi veterans faced an onslaught.
But the humans were overwhelmed, as both her remaining units routed.
The League of Nil-ith Horn orc forces secured plunder and a beachhead due to the success of the Raid on Larbro.