Lion Rampant Arthur Campaign Forces

Here are my two proposed starter forces for my upcoming (???) campaign. It was a tough decision as to exactly what units went in to each force and trying to create balance.

Arthur's force is a fast, hard hitting but small force. In Lion Rampant terms ...

... two groups of mounted sergeants and one group of mounted yeomen.  This means two charging groups and one skirmishing missile unit. 

One of the mounted sergeants. 

The second mounted sergeants unit ... with Arthur proudly waving his magic sword Caliburnus (yep, the sword name from Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'History' of Britain.) 

Good on attack but not on defence. Low model counts in all units may also be a weakness. High movement will be obvious advantage hopefully enabling the Britons to concentrate their attacks on portions of the Saxon forces and cut them off from objectives.

For the Saxons ... 

The Saxon all foot force consists of two units of spear armed foot yeomen, one group of charging fierce foot and one unit of skirmishing bidowers. 

Above stands the fierce foot ... aggressive warriors all. 

The skirmishers or bidowers. 

For the Saxons to defend against Arthur's mounted troops the foot yeomen need to form schiltron (which will be called shieldwall in this campaign and allow units to move at half speed once formed.)  However, this will slow their movement. The fierce foot and bidowers movement in rough terrain will provide an advantage. 

Hopefully this will create some interesting match ups with both groups able to attack and counter the other in varied ways ... well thats the plan anyway. 

The choice of the mounted Britons also aligns with some of the theorising about a post Roman Arthur against the more 'barbaric' Saxons. While this is fertile ground for dramtic gameplay and the imagination it appears to have very little to do with history ... but my entire 'Mythic Britain' project aims to dwell in that space of legend.