Rescuing Livestock

At a show a couple of years ago I saw an excellent Dark Ages participation
game where the object was to drive your flocks into a fort before the Viking
raiders arrived and pillaged the lot.

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In a message dated 5/22/01 7:32:31 AM Central Daylight Time,
> cdownes-ward@9a.co.uk writes:

> At a show a couple of years ago I saw an excellent Dark Ages

I've run games set along the Scots/English borders where the objective
was to loot cattle herds and drive them away. It is great fun to watch the
player devote a larger and larger portion of his warriors to herding while
trying to
delay pursuit at the same time. From the pre-Roman times to the 1500's
along the Irish sea no individual could lay claim to the cattle. It was
simpoly a case of who had possession at any given time. It was considered
crafty to let the herds graze in someone else's pasteurs and show up in the
fall to steal the whole herd and make off with it. Lots of good multi=player
wargames in that from ancient times to flintlocks