Uhoh, I guess not. That looks like the Warden in hot pursuit.
Could be a fight brewing.
Friday, October 11, 2019
Cross Border Shopping 16thC Style
Looks like a good haul, I hope they remembered to report to Customs and fill in all the appropriate paperwork.
Uhoh, I guess not. That looks like the Warden in hot pursuit.
Could be a fight brewing.
Uhoh, I guess not. That looks like the Warden in hot pursuit.
Could be a fight brewing.
Born and raised in the suburbs of Montreal, 5 years in the Black Watch of Canada Cadets, 5 years at the Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean followed by 4 in the navy. 25 years with CPC in IT simultaneous with 23 years running a boarding kennel. Inherited my love of toy soldiers from my mother's father. Married with a pack of Italian Greyhounds and 3 cats. Prematurely retired and enjoying leisure to game, maintaining our 160 yr old farmhouse and just living.
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Do you know, I've tried for 30 years to make border reiving into a wargame, and have failed. I have this dream of turning the Kinmont Willie raid into a wargame. So go for it! Shake loose the border!
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A worthy dream but not one I'm likely to act out. Seems to me that in order to get the right flavour it would call for individual figures and a skirmish approach with characters etc. The inspiration behind this non-historical scenario was a rather different historical event.
DeleteYes, tales of ancestors! Always nice to hear about them.
ReplyDeleteFor some odd reason the English on my table rarely manage to match their historic performance.
DeleteSteel bonnets? Sounds good.
ReplyDeleteLooks nice, very nice!
ReplyDeleteThanks.
DeleteLike the photo from The Wardens perspective. I do enjoy these “adverts” for forthcoming games. It is like being in the cinema without the really annoying loud adverts for goodness knows what.
ReplyDeleteand quick and fun to do.
DeleteGreat pictures Ross!
ReplyDeleteThanks. some of my favourite figures, mostly my own originals.
DeleteI reckon it might be fun (sort of) to recreated the tangle of blood feud and blackmail across and along the borders. Probably the most interesting feud was that between the two Scots families Maxwell and Johnstone. On one occasion, a band of 2000 Maxwell led ... what do you call them? Raiders? - set off to settle accounts with the Johnstones, once and for all. The much less powerful Johnstone clans and their friends set off to meet them with but 400.
ReplyDeleteThe Maxwells must have been careless with overconfidence, for they rode straight into an ambush and were cut to pieces in the ensuing running fight.
This was, naturally, one of the largest fights of the border feuds, but there must have been several smaller encounters, no less deadly.
I reckon the thing might be playable as a 'semi-skirmish' sort of campaign game, a kind of smouldering 'kleine ktieg'. My BMC AWI forces are set up for such a thing, with about 50 figures the side.
It would be a fun project, for someone....
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