Medieval skirmish, Napoleonics and more!

[Wulf]

A subject of mixed messages.

Our group has quite recently started moving into historical wargaming. For a start the main focus will be Medieval skirmish and Napoleonic dito. Possibly this will expand into other fields aswell. We'll see.

For the 15th century skirmish project we are using the Lord of the rings rule sets with some modifications.

For Napoleonic gaming we will use Song of Drums and Shakos. A skrimish rule set for som fast paced action.

Both projects are 28mm and in some aspects an excuse for putting the Perry brothers excellent miniatures on the gaming table.

To keep track of our projects we kicked off the new year with a brand new blog. You can find it here, Northern Wargaming: http://northern-wargaming.blogspot.com/
My guess is that it will be updated sporadicly... Having other blogs here on warseer I thought it suitable to have this here as well.

Anyway, we started the new year with some gaming and a battle report is up on the blog. It features some 15th century peasants ambushing the local sheriff.

The full report and a lot of pictures can be found on the blog.



Enjoy!

[sigur]

Excellent, looking forward to reading more about your group's historical adventures! It's also always cool when people incorporate local history into their games.

Have you considered using the Saga ruleset? From what I hear it's superb. Set maybe a wee bit earlier than 15th century but that shouldn't be a real problem at all. I think that you definately should have a look at this system.

[Whitwort Stormbringer]

Nice! I love the idea of getting some medieval, dark ages, and ancient skirmish battles going. Just need the players for it.

I've heard good things about SAGA too, although it sounds like it plays very differently from the LotR SBG system and "units" (defined as I understand it as the warlord or groups of either 8 levy or 4 professional soldiers) act as one, unlike in SBG where each model acts individually. In any event, it's supposed to be a great set of rules and I look forward to picking it up and trying it out one day.

FWIW, there's a Yahoo group dedicated to adapting the LotR SBG rules to other settings and there's an "Age of Trebuchet" medieval list of profiles. There's also always the LotR Cost Calculator which, while not perfect, is great as a starting point for building up your own profiles if you should need them. That way you won't have to proxy Tolkien characters if you don't want to.