SAGA: Cross and Crescent - 1st two armies at Siege:
Spanish vs Muslims
I couldn't make it to the wargames club tonight (like many other Wednesday nights, unfortunately) as I had a meeting on endocrine surgery.
Very interesting stuff that, all about adrenal glands, thyroid glands and parathyroid glands, mammary glands... So I got home after 9, too late for club. I had to be content with playing with myself.
No, you dirty minded gamers, you! I have mostly finished my Muslim and Crusader forces, and contented myself by setting them up as a siege. All wargamers will admit to playing with themselves at some point. I even took some photos:
Lets call it the Siege of Al Zabells.
El Cid's Spanish Crusaders/Reconquistadors taking on the fortified Moorish desert town of Al Zabells:
The trumpets sound, as the Reconquistadores of El Cid pour over the dunes.
To arms, to arms!
Next to appear over the dunes are lightly armoured knights on foot and archers.
The Moorish archers take aim.
Heavy spearmen and archers prepare to defend the battlements of the mud-brick and sandstone fortified town of Al Zabells, as more and more Spanish bear down on the town.
Rachid Al' Din and his Berbers respond to the trumpets and call of the Muezzin
Every man to defend the Mosque!
Mighty siege engines roll forward
Mounted light archers pour out of the town gates to harass the advancing Spanish.
While Mutatawwi'a and Moors unite to repel the Infidels
As the Crusader cavalry draw close to the gate the Muslim cavalry come thundering around the corner of the Mosque
Victory will be ours! Who will prevail?
