For our last game of the year, the Wollongong Wargamers decided on a bit of light hearted fun - and what can be more light hearted than Vikings enjoying a friendly fjord race?
The ships were set up on the startline, to which they had to race back after rounding the blue buoy. The smaller and slower sailing Karvis had a slight lead:
Perhaps too many hazards...
Competition soon degenerated into arrow storms and deliberate collisions. My hereditary foeman, Jarl Daniel, rammed my ship, and how the Gods laughed!
My little Karvi soon took some hard knocks...
And, heavily damaged, everyone else piled in too!
My Karvi's sinking cleared the channel slightly, and Jarl Caesar was in the lead, rounding the buoy already. In the background, Jarl 'Wolfman' Daniel's Karvi has stopped on the shoreline to pick up treasure...
Attention now focused on the lead ship, with Jarl Craig ramming it at full sail! Both Snekkas took heavy damage!
As the area around the buoy degenerated into a mass of arrow storms and boardings, Jarl 'Wolfman' Daniel just quietly sailed on by, hugging the coast - nothing to see here....
The fighting around the buoy raged, with Jarl Daniel's brave crew cut to pieces. With half his crew gone, and the ship barely afloat, would he succumb to boarding or sinking?
Ships were sinking or wrecked everywhere. 'T' boned by a Snekka at full sail, his Karvi disappeared beneath the waves. Justice!
Eventually there were only two Snekkas left, barely afloat. Jarl 'Wolfman' Daniel, his small Karvi laden with treasure, was able to sail serenely around the buoy and head for the finish line and a feat of seamanship the Skald's will sing about all through the coming Yuletide!
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