Re: Rescuing Livestock

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
participation
> game where the object was to drive your flocks into a fort before the
> 

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