20mm Napoleonics and Midgard

20mm Napoleonics, utilising HaT Miniatures for the most part. 20mm really does enable you to get the feel for larger battles on a 6'x4' table, which is an advantage over 28mm, which can only really represent a 'big skirmish' on this size of table. More 20mm figures are being painted en masse as we speak!, so hopefully we will see more in this scale over the coming months.

Some 'Elf and Safety for Midgard as the Elven Host make a rare appearance on our battlefield in support of their Saxon allies. Nevertheless, the Norse invaders proved too powerful in this engagement and achieved a 'narrow win'.

Mortem et Gloriam...et Pillage

Some nice images from a MeG ancients game and a scenario from the Pillage Medieval Skirmish rule set were played at the club on Monday.

Midgard - Vikings Withstand the Orc Surge

Despite an initially ferocious surge of Orcs towards the key objectives in this scenario (from the new Midgard campaign book), the Vikings stepped up to the plate, withstood the early surge of the grotesque abominations, and outclassed and outfought the Orc army, who were supported by their Goblin allies.

Best Viking unit award might have gone to a unit of Viking skirmishers who essentially kept the Troggoth Beast out of the game by evading it every time it tried to make contact. The most effective unit on the Orc side was probably the Goblin King who thoroughly enjoyed himself in the midst of all of the horror and carnage.

"The age of Orcs is ending; the time of Skeletons has begun"

In these back-to-back Dragon Rampant games the Skeletons emerged victorious both times. The Orcs seemed to lack a degree of resiliance, not helped by a few consequetive failed activation roles. The Skeletons were well handled and didn't really suffer from any morale issues, due to their 'Undead' special rule.