<!doctype html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <title>35 - Auldearn</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/fonts/fonts.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/table-battles/cards.css"> <style> body{background-color:dimgray;color:whitesmoke;padding:20px;background-image:url(../images/background.png)} .list{display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:20px;margin-bottom:40px} </style> </head> <body> <h1>35 - Auldearn</h1> <div class="list"> <div id="scenario_35" class="scenario card"> <div class="scenario_title"> <div class="battle_name">Auldearn</div> <div class="battle_date">9 May 1645</div> </div> <div class="scenario_player"> <div class="scenario_player_name">Covenanters</div> <div class="scenario_line">Cards 203B-208B</div> <div class="scenario_line">Morale: 5</div> <div class="scenario_line"></div> </div> <div class="scenario_player"> <div class="scenario_player_name">Royalists</div> <div class="scenario_line">Cards 209B-216B</div> <div class="scenario_line">Morale: 0 - see below</div> <div class="scenario_line"></div> </div> <div class="rule_text">If any Royalist card Routs, the Covenanters win immediately.</div> <div class="lore_text">400 desperate men defend Auldearn from a Covenanter army nearly 2,000 strong. Their only hope is that Montrose will arrive in time to turn the tide. He better hurry it up!</div> <div class="number">35</div> </div> </div><div class="list"> <div class="formation card"> <div class="name dkblue">Lawers's Horse</div> <div class="strength">1</div> <div class="dice_area">4</div> <div class="action_row"> <div class="action_type reaction">Screen</div> <div class="action_requirement">Pair</div> <div class="action_target">Garlic Hill, Irish Right</div> </div> <div class="lore_text">A single troop of about thirty men (and presumably the same number of horses) that would be easily routed by the arrival of two hundred cavalry under Gordon.</div> <div class="number">203B</div> <div class="extra">♠</div> </div> <div class="formation card"> <div class="name blue">Campbell of Lawers</div> <div class="strength">6</div> <div class="dice_area">(4-6)</div> <div class="action_row"> <div class="action_type">Attack</div> <div class="action_requirement"></div> <div class="action_target">Garlic Hill, MacColla's Lifeguard</div> <div class="action_effect">1 hit per die. 1 self.<br>Take dice from Lawers's Horse.</div> </div> <div class="action_row"> <div class="action_type reaction">Counterattack</div> <div class="action_requirement"></div> <div class="action_target">Any enemy attacking it</div> <div class="action_effect">1 hit. Suffers 1 less hit per die.</div> </div> <div class="reserve">RETIRE</div> <div class="number">204B</div> <div class="extra">♣</div> </div> <div class="formation card"> <div class="name blue">Seaforth</div> <div class="strength">4</div> <div class="dice_area">Doubles</div> <div class="action_row"> <div class="action_type reaction">Absorb</div> <div class="action_requirement">Pair</div> <div class="action_target">Campbell of Lawers</div> <div class="action_effect">Suffers 1 hit only.</div> </div> <div class="rule_text">If Campbell of Lawers Routs or Retires, Seaforth immediately Routs.</div> <div class="lore_text">Rather than deploying in a battleline, the Covenanter regiments were secunded - one after the other. Once Lawers's men broke, they ran into and through the men behind them; the result was anarchy.</div> <div class="number">205B</div> <div class="extra">♣</div> </div> <div class="formation card"> <div class="name dkblue">Drummond</div> <div class="strength">2</div> <div class="dice_area">3/4</div> <div class="action_row"> <div class="action_type">Attack</div> <div class="action_requirement"></div> <div class="action_target">Aboyne</div> <div class="action_effect">1 hit per die.</div> </div> <div class="action_row"> <div class="action_type reaction">Screen</div> <div class="action_requirement">Pair</div> <div class="action_target">Aboyne</div> </div> <div class="number">206B</div> <div class="extra">♠</div> </div> <div class="formation card"> <div class="name blue">Lothian</div> <div class="strength">4</div> <div class="dice_area">3/4</div> <div class="action_row"> <div class="action_type">Attack</div> <div class="action_requirement"></div> <div class="action_target">Irish Right</div> <div class="action_effect">1 hit per die. 1 self.</div> </div> <div class="action_row"> <div class="action_type reaction">Counterattack</div> <div class="action_requirement">Pair</div> <div class="action_target">Irish Right</div> <div class="action_effect">1 hit.</div> </div> <div class="reserve">IN RESERVE (Campbell of Lawers)</div> <div class="number">207B</div> <div class="extra">♣</div> </div> <div class="formation card"> <div class="name blue">Lord Chancellor's</div> <div class="strength">4</div> <div class="dice_area">5/6</div> <div class="action_row"> <div class="action_type">Attack</div> <div class="action_requirement"></div> <div class="action_target">Irish Left</div> <div class="action_effect">1 hit per die. 1 self.</div> </div> <div class="action_row"> <div class="action_type reaction">Counterattack</div> <div class="action_requirement">Pair</div> <div class="action_target">Irish Left</div> <div class="action_effect">1 hit.</div> </div> <div class="reserve">IN RESERVE (Drummond)</div> <div class="number">208B</div> <div class="extra">♣</div> </div> </div><div class="list"> <div class="formation card"> <div class="name red">Garlic Hill</div> <div class="strength">4</div> <div class="dice_area">(5/6)</div> <div class="action_row"> <div class="action_type">Attack</div> <div class="action_requirement"></div> <div class="action_target">Campbell of Lawers</div> <div class="action_effect">1 hit.</div> </div> <div class="action_row"> <div class="action_type reaction">Counterattack</div> <div class="action_requirement"></div> <div class="action_target">Campbell of Lawers</div> <div class="action_effect">1 hit. Suffers 1 less hit per die.</div> </div> <div class="reserve">RETIRE</div> <div class="number">209B</div> <div class="extra">♦</div> </div> <div class="formation card"> <div class="name pink">Moneymore</div> <div class="strength">1</div> <div class="dice_area">3/4</div> <div class="action_row"> <div class="action_type reaction">Screen</div> <div class="action_requirement">Pair</div> <div class="action_target">Campbell of Lawers</div> </div> <div class="rule_text">When Garlic Hill Retires, so does this card; they are all falling back to the position represented by the MacColla's Lifeguard card, in Auldearn.</div> <div class="number">210B</div> <div class="extra">♥</div> </div> <div class="formation card"> <div class="name red">MacColla's Lifeguard</div> <div class="strength">3</div> <div class="dice_area">(5/6)</div> <div class="action_row"> <div class="action_type">Attack</div> <div class="action_requirement"></div> <div class="action_target">Campbell of Lawers</div> <div class="action_effect">1 hit plus 1 hit per die.</div> </div> <div class="rule_text">This Formation ALWAYS suffers one less hit when Attacked and NEVER suffers more than one hit in any given Attack.</div> <div class="lore_text">Forced to abandon his position on Garlic Hill, MacColla fell back to Auldearn itself. The fighting there was fierce, and Mungo Campbell of Lawers was killed in action.</div> <div class="reserve">IN RESERVE (Garlic Hill)</div> <div class="number">211B</div> <div class="extra">♦</div> </div> <div class="formation card"> <div class="name pink">Montrose</div> <div class="strength">1</div> <div class="dice_area">1-3</div> <div class="action_row"> <div class="action_type">Command</div> <div class="action_requirement">Full House</div> <div class="action_target">Gordon and Aboyne</div> </div> <div class="rule_text">Montrose may only perform the second action after having previously performed the first.</div> <div class="action_row"> <div class="action_type">Command</div> <div class="action_requirement">Two Pairs</div> <div class="action_target">Irish Left and Irish Right</div> </div> <div class="lore_text">Montrose's horse went around the village and smashed the enemy wings; then his foot came through the village to engage.</div> <div class="number">212B</div> <div class="extra">♥</div> </div> <div class="formation card"> <div class="name pink">Aboyne</div> <div class="strength">4</div> <div class="dice_area">4-6</div> <div class="action_row"> <div class="action_type">Attack</div> <div class="action_requirement"></div> <div class="action_target">Drummond, Lord Chancellor's</div> <div class="action_effect">1 hit per die. 1 self.</div> </div> <div class="action_row"> <div class="action_type reaction">Screen</div> <div class="action_requirement">Pair</div> <div class="action_target">Drummond, Lord Chancellor's</div> </div> <div class="reserve">IN RESERVE (Commanded)</div> <div class="number">213B</div> <div class="extra">♥</div> </div> <div class="formation card"> <div class="name pink">Gordon</div> <div class="strength">4</div> <div class="dice_area">1-3</div> <div class="action_row"> <div class="action_type">Attack</div> <div class="action_requirement"></div> <div class="action_target">Lawers's Horse, Campbell of Lawers</div> <div class="action_effect">1 hit per die. 1 self.</div> </div> <div class="action_row"> <div class="action_type reaction">Screen</div> <div class="action_requirement">Pair</div> <div class="action_target">Campbell of Lawers, Lothian</div> </div> <div class="reserve">IN RESERVE (Commanded)</div> <div class="number">214B</div> <div class="extra">♥</div> </div> <div class="formation card"> <div class="name red">Irish Left</div> <div class="strength">4</div> <div class="dice_area">1-3</div> <div class="action_row"> <div class="action_type">Attack</div> <div class="action_requirement"></div> <div class="action_target">Campbell of Lawers, Drummond, Lord Chancellor's</div> <div class="action_effect">1 hit plus 1 hit per die. 1 self.</div> </div> <div class="action_row"> <div class="action_type reaction">Counterattack</div> <div class="action_requirement"></div> <div class="action_target">Lord Chancellor's</div> <div class="action_effect">1 hit. Suffers 1 less hit per die.</div> </div> <div class="reserve">IN RESERVE (Commanded)</div> <div class="number">215B</div> <div class="extra">♦</div> </div> <div class="formation card"> <div class="name red">Irish Right</div> <div class="strength">4</div> <div class="dice_area">4-6</div> <div class="action_row"> <div class="action_type">Attack</div> <div class="action_requirement"></div> <div class="action_target">Campbell of Lawers, Lothian</div> <div class="action_effect">1 hit plus 1 hit per die. 1 self.</div> </div> <div class="action_row"> <div class="action_type reaction">Counterattack</div> <div class="action_requirement"></div> <div class="action_target">Lothian</div> <div class="action_effect">1 hit. Suffers 1 less hit per die.</div> </div> <div class="reserve">IN RESERVE (Commanded)</div> <div class="number">216B</div> <div class="extra">♦</div> </div>