A Question Of Scale

Saturday saw the return by my wife and I to the Battle of Evesham Medieval event after several years being missed due to coinciding holidays and once to the awful weather.

In conjunction with the event was the Barons War Wargames event, as you would imagine the majority of the games in display were medieval themed. There was also a healthy trade presence supported by among others Athena, Gripping Beast, Ironclad and Tiger Miniatures. The games were all of a magnificent standard as you can glean from the following photos of games that particularly caught my eye

A fictional Wars of the Roses battle.

Dr. Rob Jones was in hand demonstratin his upcoming skirmish rules 

The well deserved winner of best in show was this German Peasants War game.

Scaling up here are some reenactment shots from the event.

Well worth a visit, entry is free and if you take advantage of the events party and ride £10 entry to the wargames event was a modest £2.

Until next time.....................KBO

In With The New

Dave came over the other day for our weekly game, it is the school holidays here so Dave's grandson Will joined us for a World War Two game. We decided to use Rapid Fire Reloaded as we thought it would be easier for Will to follow. Will is quite keen on World War Two he builds and paints his own figures, vehicles and planes and is gathering some extensive knowledge on all things World War Two, which of course we aim to encourage!

I gathered two small forces, a German infantry battalion with support and a Soviet motorized infantry battalion with support, the Soviets aim to exit two AFVs and at least six infantry figures off the enemy table edge to win, getting just one AFV off would be a draw. As usual there follows an annotated photo montage of the action.

The Soviet advance on the centre left.

Meanwhile on the right they attempt a dash down the road.

The Germans have other ideas.

Over on the German right the infantry await the approaching T34s and infantry.

The Soviets attempt to sneak around the Germans left.

The T34s trade shots with the German PAK40 and Stug III neither side manage any penetrating hits.

It is left to both sides mortars and howitzers to do the job.

Over on the Soviet left another T34 is knocked out.

Off table 105mm howitzers rain down hell.

Further support from the Germans 150mm Sig33s.

Another T34 bites the dust.

Another ends any chance of winning and with the remaining T34 having to run the gauntlet of two Stugs, Panzerschreks and Panzerfausts even a draw is extremely unlikely. No win for Will and myself but Will enjoyed himself nonetheless taking numerous photos for himself along the way.

Until next time...................KBO