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ing people talking about battlefields pushing toy soldiers browsing and chewing the fat plenty of that the other partizan talking to people to beguile the visitor we took along the battle of northampton 1460 and a stand compatible 6mm version of edgcote full panoramic 15mm in the history zone we were in good company flanked by the lance longbow society and the civil war centre battlefields trust and opposite wargame developments wd s moscow 1812 game as the pic shows i manage to get some of the grande armee home we joined forces with the northamptonshire battlefields society and naseby 1645 around the show as well as the societies and the much missed analogue shopping there were some excellent ancient and medieval games infamy infamy 54mm bb dba never mind the billhooks the english lines in the much admired crecy game and outsid our periods there was also much to admire more games from the other partizan 2021 it was difficult to decide if this was one of the best partizans ever or whether it was just because it has been such a long time sinc we were all able to experience this games and display in the flesh as it were the northampton game we used politics by other means to run through the key events of the battle of northampton 2pm the yorkists attack inside the position the calm before the storm the attack as watched from the eleanor cross by the archbishop of canterbury nn1460 bottom right the earl of march s contingent breaks into the lancastrian camp as so often happens the dice steered us in a very historical direction it was wonderful to be back out on the road and to be a a real show many of us were pinching ourselves posted by soa shows north at 12 00 am no comments labels battle of northampton northampton 1460 northampton battlefields society partizan monday october 25 2021 dba special a camp for iv 75 timurid a mongol timurid camp originally my mongols and timurids shared the same camp but i had a number of camels surplus and an idea for scratchbuilding a yurt so the idea for a camp was born and allocated to the timurids dba camp for book iv list 75 timurid the model is therefore a very small part of camel stop off or caravanserai where a number of laden beasts are being parked next to a yurt the camels are mostly gladiator with contributions from irregular and falcon the cameleer is museum with a gladiator head the yurt is bottle top with s tissue covering and detailing in wire and miliput as usual the camp follower is separate and can be detached camp follower book iv list 75 posted by soa shows north at 11 59 pm no comments labels camps and baggage dba dba armies timurid thursday september 30 2021 the end of summer and ancients in transition this is very much a summary well it s that time of year of a season with no dominant themes we ve not been on the road much but we ve not been stuck at home there have been events though not as many as would be usual coming into the autumn the dba season is up and running but some of the established events such as the season finale the english open remain cancelled and my own ancients has been a mix of zoom and face to face a mix of figure wargames and other formats we got in one of our regular get togethers in august including playing a spirited game of dux bellorum an interesting and worthy game if not one of my all time favourites it s all about timing and tempo i think dux bellorum is driven by the allocation of command chips which allow localised interventions and overrides in the standard game mechanisms how many of these you have and where you use them is crucial and competitive i like this aspect although it can seem a little synthetic i like the unit structure a lot less but in part that provokes a broader discussion of what dark age warfare might look like anyway my side won so it must be a pretty good game scenes from dux bellorum figures by richard lockwood and i ve been trying to keep my hand in at dba here a practice game featuring a couple of this year s new armies meroitic kushite and saitic egyptian this was quite a tight match up but the saitics were played by the luckier player so the army with the 4 horse chariot general beat the army with the elephant general dba v3 saitic egyptian vs meroitic kushite in addition to the games day battleday dba and heritage events i also got up to the big city not by car though so this was really on the edge i played in the latest version of paul morris award winning john bassett s wolves in the forum on the move but appropriately masked shows north takes the train that was the board now for the hardware wolves in the forum is a multiplayer map based game set in the last years of the republic i d love to report a clear win in this game too but that would be taking the role play to the extreme i got to play the venerable cicero so my job was essentially to prove the pen to be mightier than the sword and to use that might to bring down the generals that would overthrow the senate so me and my wordsmithery vs mark antony and a huge stack legions who would you be backing on the figures front i have been out trying 3d visual aids to help present my research on medieval formations archer zig zag visual aid contemporary manuscripts seem to show archers in half ranks shooting past the rank they partially overlap in front kind of zig zag which makes sense given that there s no evidence longbowmen lobbed their arrows up in the air in a barrage rather they took aimed shots at closer ranges with a fairly flat trajectory we can debate that last point of course but we do need to recognise there s overwhelming amounts of evidnce to support it anyway stepping to the side to shoot though the gap between the men in front makes a lot of sense and this seems to be what is being represented a scene from froissart here the archers are opposing each other to the flank of men at arms archer zig zag visual aid men at arms pushing to the front i ve done a demo base in 6mm to help clarify what the bases in the edgcote game actually represent it sort of works but in the quest to get an appropriate number of men on the base i ended up making the combat troops too dense an attempt on 6mm to depict an actual medieval battle formation in reality the rear ranks by the wars of the roses anyway would likely be quite loosely arrayed they were armed with pole weapons rather than a single handed weapon shield so they need a little bit of space to maximise the full potential of their weapons and needed a dodge or parry as their defence their loose formation and the offset spacing amongst the longbows would make it easy enough for the archers to filter to the rear as the better armoured men steadied for contact these serried ranks might even be what froissart famously meant by describing the english formation at crecy as a herse as a test here i ve photoshopped the staggered archers from the model into a 15th century picture from another edition of froissart illustrating the battle of crecy hybrid illustration the froissart painter plus phil s model blended in on a quick glance it is weirdly difficult to distinguish the figures from the model they do seem to fit the arrangement depicted quite naturally this proves nothing all i was doing was trying to test whether i and the froissart artist were trying to depict the same thing well similar at least and finally we have been latterly playtesting ian lowell s latest iteration of rein bow warriors we were using dummy bases on a grid for now as ian gets a grip on his concepts i m assured figures will follow it s too early to tell how well the innovative idas will work rein bow warriors so from cardboard counters to an elderly wolf in the forum from 6mm to 54s and some nonsense about froissart i d warned there were no dominant themes to end the summer posted by soa shows north at 11 59 pm 1 comment labels dba dux bellorum froissart s herse medieval warfare wolves in the forum saturday september 4 2021 dba special iv 83a b wars of the roses yorkist tudor at bosworth 54mm wars of the roses 54mm bosworth 1485 these bespoke armies were configured during the development phases of v3 and represent my thinking of how the historical orbats translate for dba i ll point out the deviations where they occur the number figures on a base is also not as specified purely in order to have a comfortable fit for the 54mm figures on a conveniently sized element stand the bases are 80mm wide which allows for a 4 ft wide table the mounted are all kn and are 2 to a base the foot are all 3 per base except for hand gunners psiloi but there are several double bases so 6 figures in 2 ranks me using the 54mm dba game to explain the battle to cricket legend freddie flintoff each army has 3kn general richard has 2 more kn although northumberland can only move on a pip roll of 5 or 6 richard s cavalry at bosworth 54mm dba wars of the roses the earl of richmond might get some support from the stanleys henry tudor and the stanleys the infantry the yorkists the tudors for the tudors i chose to represent the earl of oxford s anglo welsh vanward as a traditional mix of bows and blades vanward 2 x bw 1 x bd talbot oxford savage with the welsh in the mainward a mix of ax ap thomas and bd tudor pembroke tudor 1 x ax 2 x bd and for best effect the mercenaries pike i chose to represent as 8sp they can be played as pk of course the difference is interesting but probably not a game changer henry s mercenaries under philibert de chandee and bernard stewart d aubigny royalist yorkist contempoaries describe norfolk s solid line as a rampart compared with oxford s slender line i therefore took advantage of v3 s 8bw lb troop classification to show this solid mix of archers and combat troops it certainly looks right to me i take the burgundian 8lb in list iv 85 to be based on late 15th cent english practice so this interpretation isn t straying from dba orthodoxy by that much really somerset livery norfolk and catesby the figures in this army are a liberal mix of old plastic soldiers britains timpo more modern 1 32 figures airfix italeri etc and metals by irregular miniatures the splendid fabric flags were researched and created by my lately departed friend heraldry buff and wargame project collaborator graham fordham of fluttering flags even though he was mainly a 28mm enthusiast of late these scaled up versions really make the best of 54mm s visual impact without anything much in the way of field artillery in this scale i adapted the pieces in irregular s 40mm renaissance range the designs basically work and so a relatively big 40mm gun becomes a medium piece in 54mm the ribauldequin is simply several such crafted into one some of richard s seven score serpentines 54mm bosorth dba 1 x art 1 x handgunners ps tudor camp neither side s camp played any part in the battle so they don t really need to be depicted in the game some say the finds associated with whitemoors relate to richard s camp so it makes a fun albeit tactically insignificant addition to the set up 54mm dba iv 83b ricardian camp scene the vignette includes an irregular miniatures cart in difficulties in the marshy conditions typical of the battlefield for completeness it incorporates a camp follower element which shows the stanley family s lord strange a hostage in richard s camp accompanied by a mercenary headsman needless to say i wasn t actually there so can t say how authentic this scene might be the camp area is completed by a fairly successful repaint of the old timpo plastic medieval tent lovers of detail might like that i have topped the tent pole with a crown finial it s actually an inexpensive bracelet ornament you can buy in the heritage centre shop it really is an authentic bosworth souvenir who would have guessed bosworth 1485 yorkist tent with murrey and blue details camp follower element lord strange i also made a thorn bush posted by soa shows north at 11 42 pm no comments labels 54mm battle of 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