Dark Ages Campaign Results

After three complete rounds we have the final results

Roy - 66% win ratio
Stuart - 66% win ratio
Stu - 66% win ratio
John -  50% win ratio (4 rounds, would be 33% after 3 rounds)

The most successful of the German armies were the Vandals (all warriors) who won all of their battles with the Chatti (mostly warbands) being nearly as successful. The mounted armies suffered with a single win between them.

So very pretty and good fun having the variety of armies rather than a shieldwall grind every week.

Montrose Scottish ECW foot

Latest painting project

I've now completed my first two units of foot for the Montrose ECW army. I wanted some troops to be the levy / Gordon's foot brigade for my Montrose army. These are nt quite right for Gordon's foot as they should ideally be regular highlanders but they are close enough for our purposes.

Figures are 28mm Warlord plastics with free flags for the inter-web.

First battalion with the Royal Standard

Second battalion with a Gordon Standard

 



The full brigade

 



Republican Romans finished at last

 

After about 6 months painting the Republican Romans are finally completed. I've used three boxes of Victrix 28mm and produced 2 * Triarii, 2*Hastati, 2*Latin Allies, 2*Penal Legion, and 2*Velites

Triarii

Hastati

Latins

Penal Legion - converted Velites

Velites

 

Dark Ages - turn 1

 

 

This is the map after the first turn - for more details on the campaign rules and battle reports look in the Dark Ages page of the Blog

Dark Ages - the next steps

After a few play tests with the armies we've tweaked the format a little. The Roman armies seem powerful and well balanced compared with the Barbarians, especially if we spice it up with some cavalry-heavy armies.

So the plan now is that each player (or pair) will control a Roman army, with it essentially becoming a competition between them to defend the glory of the empire. Spare players will control a random barbarian army.

Dark Ages - our next campaign

Our next major campaign is likely to be Dark Ages using the Dux Ballorum rules from Osprey. We'll go for a simple setup with a 4-hander format. Draft rules are in the Dark Ages page

The new(ish campaign)

After several weeks of fiddling we're now up and running with a new ECW campaign, based on the fictional battle for Borsetshire. We're using the Victory Without Quarter rules in a modified form where the cards have been replaced with a more conventional turn sequence.

Some of the Royalist infantry, from Richard

We're three battles in with a Royalists having a strategic advantage. Its certainly stimulated some painting with both myself and Stuart completing sizable armies.

Some Parliamentary Dragoons from my paint brush