Bad Endings (Medieval Skirmish Rules) By Craig Cartmell   Sequence of Play Movement - players dice for precedence Firing Melee Results Movement When 12" or more from known enemy: Unarmoured men move up to 6" Armoured men move up to 4" Men on horseback move up to 12" When within 12" of known enemy Men on foot move up to 1D6" (diced individually) Men on horseback move up to 2D6" (diced individually) Movement modifiers: -2" for each obstacle crossed, or for each move in difficult terrain -1" if previously wounded +1" if pursuing +2" if charging or fleeing Firing Weapon Rate of Fire Range Bow 1 per round 24" Crossbow 1 per 2 rounds 30" Angon 1 per round 6" Francisca 1 per round 8" Spear 1 per round 12" Sling 1 per round 20" Firers of arrows, quarrels or slingshot will run out of ammunition on any roll of 1 when firing.   Melee Combat category by troop type: Combat Category Saxon Viking Celt Norman B Ceorl Freeman Farmer Peasant F Great Fryd Bondi H Select Fryd Viking Warrior Soldier I Thegn Viking Captain Prince/Hero Foot Knight J Huscarle Berserker Gall Gael Mounted Knight The combat category gives the die roll required to cause a hit on the chart below: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N 6 6 5 5 4 4 3 3 2 2 Auto Auto Auto Auto Roll needed for an extra hit: 6 5 4 3 The chance to hit is modified as follows: Move one combat category to the left for EACH of the following that apply: Target is in chainmail Target is using shield against attacker Attacker is wounded Attacker is outnumbered at least 3:1 Move one combat category to the right for EACH of the following that apply: Attacker is using two handed spear or axe Firer is using Angon Attacker has charged over 4" into melee Attacker is using lance from charging horse Each figure gets one attack per combat round, all combat is simultaneous. Combat Results Each time a figure is hit roll the result on 1D6+1D4: Die Result 2 Spectacular death (re-roll on table below) 3 Mortal wound, fall to knees, make noble speech, die 4 Mortal wound, stagger about, attack at -2, die on roll of 1 5 Leg wound, reduce movement by 2" 6 Arm wound, no firing possible, lose every other attack 7 A mere scratch, laugh in face of enemy 8 Spectacular defence (i.e. Salmon Leap), impresses enemy so much they don't attack next round 9 Heroic act, gain one attack against all foes within 2", or if not in combat catch and throw missile back at firer 10 Go beserk, become category J Combatants who are already category J become category N Spectacular Death Table: Die Roll Melee Result Missile Result 1 Decapitated Hit through eye 2 Split from neck to groin Impaled to nearest object 3 Split from groin to breastbone Hit in throat 4 Eviscerated Thrown back by missile 3" 5 Pierced through heart Pierced through heart 6 Throat ripped out Hit through ears This article may be freely distributed as long as Wrexham & District Wargamers are credited.