After a delay due to illness (mine!), the first outing of the Battle of Mortimer's Cross took to the table in a game on Wednesday afternoon. In a F2F game, I faced Vol (A Miniatures Hobby Room) who made the one-hour drive for an afternoon game. Vol and I have not faced each other across the table in a long time so it was good to rekindle this competition. Vol took command of the Lancastrian Army and I the Yorkist Army.
Since the table needs resetting for a Thursday remote game with Peter (Grid based wargaming) to be fought over the same ground, no time for a proper battle report today. Instead, I will simply note that the battle was back onto a hex grid for today's game rather than last game's open table. In trials before the foray into gridless play, hexes were five-inch "dirt" hexes used in Basic Impetvs Ancients' games. Hexes have been downsized to four-inch "grass" hexes for Blood n Roses rules.
Hope you are feeling better and I hope the remote game goes well.
ReplyDeleteAlan Tradgardland
Thank you, Alan! Not fully recovered yet but making some headway in beating back this illness.
DeletePics look great Jon! Hopefully at some point, you get time to do a report on your game with Vol AND the upcoming one with Peter - will be interesting to see how you did with the Yorkists v's how Peter does, commanding them against you!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Keith! More pics to come once I have time to sit down and hammer out a battle report or two. Let's just say that my command of the Yorkist Army resulted in a result quite close to the historical result. When I host, my luck against Peter is rarely good.
DeleteJust had to pop over to Wikipedia to check who won....seems like congratulations are in order!
DeleteGood to see you back gaming Jon 👍
ReplyDeleteThanks! Good to be back. We ought to get a game onto our schedules.
DeleteGame certainly does look good. Good you are feeling better.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Joe! This was an enjoyable contest and doubly good to see Vol back at the table after such a long break.
DeleteGlad you're feeling better and nice to hear Vols been over for a game, looks great of course!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Much appreciated, Iain! Been a very long time since Vol has been over for a game. Hopefully, not such a long lapse between games although summer is a busy time to squeeze in an F2F game.
DeleteLooks a cool game Jon, I shall look forward to the next games report.
ReplyDeleteIt was a good one, Ray! We ought to get you fellas back onto the schedule for a crack at this battle.
DeletePleased to hear you have recovered enough to enjoy some gaming, it is a splendid pick me up I find.
ReplyDeleteGood to be on the mend. This bug seems to carry on for quite a while with lasting effects. A game is a splendid pick me up, no doubt.
DeleteGrand news you are back at the table, look forward to reading the report when it gets posted.
ReplyDeleteGame #2 coming up in under two hours. Maybe I can work on battle reports this weekend but weather has been good here so cycling may top writing.
DeleteMust be a change for a F2F game!
ReplyDeleteHope you get over whatever lurgi is afflicting you.
Neil
It is a little strange, for sure. Very nice change of pace and I need not move ALL of the figures. I hope this cold vacates these premises soon.
DeleteLooks very, very interesting!
ReplyDeleteGood!
DeleteHope you are nearly fully recovered now Jonathan. That one lingered a while. Good to see a face-to-face game. Vol didn't happen to bring you one of those excellent book nooks instead of the usual bag of grapes as a get-well present, did he?
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