Battle of Bosworth Museum

We paid a visit to the Bosworth Battlefield Museum & it was well worth it.  Plus it was a smashing price for the entrance fee, nice & cheap for the six of us.  Full details for the museum can be seen at the website...

http://www.bosworthbattlefield.com/

The best place for Jack

 

 

Henry Tudor & Richard III eye each other up.

There are lots of good displays

Amy was in her element

Life size models of the troops involved

Man-at-Arms

Richard III in full plate

Don't touch the displays Jack!

A nice touch, armour for the kids to try on

Jenny even had a go

It's an improvement Jack...

Nice range of weapons, luckily nailed to the wall though!

The crown in the thickets

Some bones of one of the fallen

The standard of Richard III, from his camp outside on the battlefield. 

Of course Amy now wants to play the Battle of Bosworth, stay tuned.

DBA EIR Romans vs Early Germans - 'Vindobona'

Well, well, well, we have been away from blogging for a long time now.  What's changed then?  We have just been on holiday touring the south of dear old England in the Fazzy mobile & took in a few historic sites.  Amy & I watched 'Gladiator' so on our return....

The year is 180 AD, the place Vindobona somewhere in the Germanic lands.  Amy takes the role of Maximus & the jolly Romans.  Yours truly takes the great unwashed horde of German Barbarians.  A nice slugfest to get back into DBA...  The Romans army comprises of 2 Cavalry, 4 blades, 4 Aux, 1 Bow & 1 Artillery.  The Germans 11 Warband & 1 Psiloi.. Simples!

The Battlefield

Inspiration....

Side view, Romans on the left...

The race to engage...

In range... FIRE CATAPULTS!!

In go the BarBars!!!

RRRAAAArrrgghh!!!

and again RRRaaaargghh!!

First kill for the Germans, but a few recoils...

The Germanic General makes a kill...

The Romans turn, Amy pulls one back, BUT it's another for Ze Germans...

In goes Maximus but he hits a brick wall... boinggg!

It's looking good for the Germans.

Ohh! What a ferocious bunch...

Amy digs deep & comes up with a few good rolls...

Maximus goes for it!

Rahoo! One more kill for the Romans 3-3!

In go Ze Germans....

HA! The dice gods abandon Maximus... A thrashing from the Germans...

A nice battle & Maximus says it all for the Romans!  Hopefully we'll get a few more games played...

Ohh! Where have you been MrF? Jan 2010

Well actually, nowhere MrF, just taken a break from gaming due to the mad Crimbo period. The horrors have been basking in their Xmas booty and being a Bah Humbug, I was banished to the back room during my days off. I did try to ‘integrate’ with the family unit over Xmas, but alas the noise and general mayhem drove me daft. A Nintendo WII being the new addition to the ‘Fazzy Abode’ and the crazed frenzy of game playing began.


Oh I did try to compete, but I’m not a nipper anymore. I used to be a gaming freak in the 80’s, an arcade & console junkie. Space Invaders, Galaxians, Scramble, the Atari console, the C64…. No, the skill has left my body, now I must face the humiliation of being soundly thrashed by all the kids.

So I’ve raised a few more armies, from the junkpile and shrewd online acquisitions. A few more rule-sets have been studied, which look rather good as well. Posts will be made soon, though I will be sticking to the later periods or ‘DBA with guns’. I enjoy those time frames much more, so I can’t see much happening in the ‘pure’ DBA periods (Ancients & Medievals).  So sorry folks, this DBA site won't be getting many posts.  I'll be concentrating on our DBA 1500-1900 site.  Check out our latest, Zulu Wars...  http://mrfarrow2udba1519k.blogspot.com/2010/01/dbc-zulu-army-1879.html

DBA II/18c Kassandros Macedonian Successor

Here's our DBA II/18c Kassandros - Early Macedonian Successor Army.  Not many options just a Spear or Jumbo.  With a few extra elements you can pretty much make up any of the Macedonian Armies.

Link to Kassandros on Wikipedia   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kassandros

DBA II/18c Kassandros Macedonian Successor 

1x3Kn(Gen), 1x3Cv, 4x4Pk, 4x4Ax, 1xEl or 4Sp, 1x2Ps

The mighty Kassandros Army ready for battle

An unusual four elements of Auxilia

The heroic Javelin chucking Psiloi

Spears

Jumbo

The very effective four Pike mob

Knight General and Cavalry