Midgard Fantasy; 54mm WWII; Victrix Pillage

A selection of a number of games played over the last few weeks:

Midgard - Orcs vs Elves

WWII in Glorious 54mm Scale

Pillaging in the Dark Ages

Borodino, 1812

This was something of an hommage to one of the most epic encounters in military history - the battle of Borodino on 7th September 1812. In what became a gruesome slaughter fest, Napoleon obtained what could, at best, best be described as a Pyrrhic victory for his Grande Armee. 

The battle and 1812 campaign have remained in the public memory like few others, in part because of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, Tolstoy's War and Peace, the 1967 Soviet film that utilised 12,000 Red Army soldiers as extras, the huge masterpiece Panorama of the battle; not to mention the occupation and burning of Moscow and Napoleon's catastrophic retreat in the winter of 1812.

In this refight of the actions in the South-Central part of the battle, around the Bagration Fleches and the village of Semyonovskaya, the French were making slow progress on their right flank, but were having difficulties on their left. Nevertheless the French juggernaut in the centre was probably about to overwhelm the Russians defending the fleches. That said, this game was grossly overly ambitious for an evening's game and we never had the chance to play it out to a conclusion.

Seven Years War/French & Indian Wars - Battle of the Plains of Abraham, 1759

A refight of James Wolf's famous victory over the French, in which the French received an historically accurate drubbing.

However, in this version both Wolfe, and his opponent Montcalm, both survived the battle, unlike their real life counterparts

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A Very British Civil War - "The Mansfield Job"

Fanatically deranged Church of England parishioners of the Anglican League faction had to rescue several crates containing bottles of communal wine, consignments of new surplices and cassocks for the cathedral choir and print copies of the Book of Common Prayer etc from a stricken transport vehicle. 

They were hampered in their efforts by troopers of the Nottinghamshire (Sherwood Rangers) Yeomanry, who had decided to turn out for the battle mounted in full dress uniform.

The Yeomanry were checked by some impressive LMG fire from the Anglican Leaguers who eventually managed to escape with most of the irreplaceable cargo.

Midgard - Attack on a Viking Stronghold

Some excellent home-made scenery on display today, with a Viking raid on a rival Viking stronghold. The fort was attacked from both land and water sides.