Sorry for the delays in getting this next post up (again). I conceived of this blog as a record of where we went and what we did ... and as a place to upload the photos we took (if anyone else wanted to see them). The BattleDay was, of course, an official Society of Ancients event. Given that I had responded to a request on the Armati Yahoo group to put some pictures of that game up, it only seemed fair to try to give as balanced an overview as possible to follow. Well, I did my best ... and that meant a lot of pictures to gather and edit ... a lot of different but equally intriguing games is the whole point of the battleday
We had Warlord II, DBMM, Armati, DBM (later rerun as AMW, I believe), and 'Days of Knights'
We had Piquet, Arcane Warfare (which reran later as FoG, I believe), Warmaster Ancients...
2 boards of Command and Colours (one the 'Battle Lore' version) and DBA ...
Some of the games were presented by their designers, notably Phil Barker and Trevor Halsall, or involved well known Slingshot contributors ... Duncan Head, Phil Sabin, Anthony Clipsom, John Graham-Leigh (to drop a few names ...)...
Hopefully the photos I have collected will give a good impression of the excellent variety and quality of games exploring this fascinating battle in parallel - and some hint of the differences in approach ... from Warmaster's 'cast of thousands' to Warlord's carefully recreated battlefield.
As is the custom, Richard Lockwood organised the awarding of mementos, sponsored vouchers and topical figures from his own painting table
The best Terrain, and best game on the day (these are pure 'caught the eye' awards) went to Shrewsbury/Sue Laflin-Barker's DBA, and Warlord II (Richard Harper, Trevor Halsall, Ian Colby) respectively...
and the recipients of the notable event mementos were ...
Adam Hayes, in the Piquet game, won the Black Prince Award - first rallying the centre, then the left, then leading the victorious charge ...
Graham Fordham won the English Archers ('peasants') Award .. shooting at each mounted wing of the French attack, and requiring 10 on a D10, Graham apparently disposed of both Marshals before they reached the English lines...
Paul Glover won the King Jean Award for his inspiring French victory in the
DBA game.
And Rodger Williams won the Chandos award for chivalric conduct in the Armati game ... moving his crossbowmen aside to make way for their betters - and forfeiting their shots at the Black Prince's (by then crippled) bodyguard .. in proper wargaming fashion, Rodger rolled the dice anyway, to see what might have been - and rolled the sixes that would have destroyed the English veterans (and maybe won the French the battle). The French Men-at-Arms that came through were mercilessly cut down, of course.
4 comments:
Most interesting indeed.It is good to put faces to SOA personalitie's names....
Any chance of coming up to Scotland - I know at least two locals (myself included) more than willing to help - we have put on games for the Society a few times up here in past years.
best wishes
Alan Gruber
p.s As one less than comfortable with the technology - how does one place text over the photos.....
Further to my previous comments.. You will find photos of a recent ancients game by us at:
http://tradgardland.blogspot.com
It is a battle betwixt the Swiss and Charles the Bold- enjoy!
Alan
Thanks, Alan ...
Reference coming up to Scotland, a couple of us regularly participate in the Glasgow Armati event (organised by Glasgow Phoenix) . and we teed up last year for Claymore. That fell apart somewhat acrimoniously when SESWC's policy of charging apparently commercial rates for a Society Literature stand obtruded, and we had to cancel.
Hopefully, no long term damage has been done re SoA and Claymore, and some of the Glasgow members have suggested they could help.
For me, I'd be very happy if there was 'support on the ground', and will happily send out some circulars ... If there are any other members north of the border (ish) reading these comments who could help, drop me a line (or say hello here), and I'll include you on the (no obligations) contact list.
I am definitely a beginner!
Re texts over photos, though, it should be pretty easy. You can do it with MS Paint - which is not really a joy to use - but most photoshop type software allows it too.
Anything offering 'insert text' on an edit menu is probably offering what you want.
Mine are done with 'ZoomBrowser' which came free with the low to middle range Canon compact which I used for the pictures.
Cognoscenti, of course, use clever stuff that allows them to include symbols, speech bubbles and all sorts. I'm not quite there yet!
Phil
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