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.
30 comments:
Hope you are feeling better and I hope the remote game goes well.
Alan Tradgardland
Pics 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!
Good to see you back gaming Jon 👍
Game certainly does look good. Good you are feeling better.
Glad you're feeling better and nice to hear Vols been over for a game, looks great of course!
Best Iain
Looks a cool game Jon, I shall look forward to the next games report.
Thank you, Alan! Not fully recovered yet but making some headway in beating back this illness.
Thanks, 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.
Thanks! Good to be back. We ought to get a game onto our schedules.
Thanks, Joe! This was an enjoyable contest and doubly good to see Vol back at the table after such a long break.
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.
It was a good one, Ray! We ought to get you fellas back onto the schedule for a crack at this battle.
Pleased to hear you have recovered enough to enjoy some gaming, it is a splendid pick me up I find.
Good 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.
Grand news you are back at the table, look forward to reading the report when it gets posted.
Must be a change for a F2F game!
Hope you get over whatever lurgi is afflicting you.
Neil
Game #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.
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.
Looks very, very interesting!
Good!
Just had to pop over to Wikipedia to check who won....seems like congratulations are in order!
Hope 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?
Indeed! I fared not as well against Peter, though.
Recovery seems a work in progress. Much better than two weeks ago.
No excellent book nook from Vol but he did bring a box of 3D printed WWII vehicles!
Good to see you back at the gaming table Jon. Hopefully it won’t be too long before you are fully recovered.
Looking forward to the AARs on this battle.
Chris
Thanks, Chris! Well, after Thursday’s game, I have two battle reports to write in this battle.
Glad you are back in the swing of things. Looking forward to trying this out.
You will get your chance very soon!
Very nice teaser shots there Jon:). Glad to hear you are on the mend too. Looking forward to the AAR in due course as always.
Hehe. Battle reports...I ought to revisit my post on who actually reads them! Working on curating photos from the two games this week.
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