Skirmish
Description
Skirmish is a 2-player Joust clone for the BBC Micro and Electron.
The players take control of a knight with a lance who rides their flying ostrich (or stork, if Player 2) to do battle against computer-controlled knights who ride atop vultures.
Players must flap their steed's wings to hit the enemy from a higher jousting point to destroy the vulture and its rider. Once the enemy has been hit, an egg falls to the the platforms below. The knights must destroy the eggs before they hatch and release new and increasingly more difficult knights. The three strengths of enemy knights are Bounder (red knight), Hunter (white knight), and Shadow Lord (blue knight). Players must also contend with crumbling platforms, lava trolls who attempt to pull knights into the fire, and the unbeatable pterodactyl.
