Midgard: Battle of Lewes 1264

 James is staging a large Battle of Lews game at partizan in a couple of weeks. So we playtested the scenario using a much reduced pair of forces as a bit of a warm up. The majority of the models are from chum Paul's collection you can see many examples over on his Scrivsland Blog

The armies assemble with the rebel Barons up on the hill

The Royalist cavalry with Edward at their head.

De Montfort deployed in reserve.

The intitial cavalry charge on the left saw the London skirmishers driven back, but Seagrave rallied the men and led a charge that threw back some of the knights.

Edward forged his way through

In the centre the Barons counterattacked

Father fought son and the blood flowed.

The royal army found the hill a tough barrier

Duels were fought and several Royal leaders wounded or captured.

De Montfort watched on

Before finally committing to counter the King's assault.

The knights easily forced back the crosbowmen

Emboldened the King joined the combat

Sadly, in the ensuing combat the draded "Double Raven" result saw the king pulled from his horse and captured by the Barons.

A great fight that went down to the wire. Were it not for the King being captured with the final roll of the dice it would have been a draw with both sides having no reputation remaining.

Looking forward to helping out with the much larger version at Partizan in a few weeks time.

Midgard Moot 2

James staged the second Midgard Moot and asked if Matt and I would host our Glorantha game again.

Midgard Moot is a gaming day where just games of Midgard are played. James himself ran a campaign pitting Vikings against Saxons whilst various other folk (including Matt and I) stage participation games of various sorts.

Anyway here are all the pictures i took. First of our game. I've shared this before after we took it to Joy of Six last year. We had two great games with the Liberators freeing Pavis from the Lunar yoke in the first game and the Lunars turning back the rebellious barbarians in the second.

Here are some of the other games

Romans and Celts in the snow

Chum Dave's Lord of the Rings. Ruined for many by the shocking absence of Dwarfs riding goats, but not bad otherwise.

Norse Myth

Battle of Hastings

Jason and the Argonauts

A fantasy game using Warhammer Old World models and troop types.

The svelte figures and luxurious manes of hair are quite typical of the wargamer.

All the other games looked fantastic. A really good day of gaming. We had the only non-28mm game so it was good to demonstrate the flexibility of Midgard to deal with different scales. I expect there'll be some 10mm at next year's version given the current popularity of the scale within our group.