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Three games of MeG - Middle Post-Romano British vs Vikings, Almoravid then Arab Conquest

A warm-up game vs Mark, then two competition games at TOIL vs Matt and David. Not all four on a weekend, becasue of a drop out on day two. So, these are a condensed report of Arthur, King of the Britons and his quest to avoid the Wooden Spoon. My list. Two units of decent cavalry, a lot of stodge amd a few skirmishers. Yes, I am running two allied generals. Game 1 vs Mark's Vikings A Wednesday warm-up, you were wondering where my last Wednesday report was? Well, here it is! Over a thousand 10/12mm figures on table, Gawain is on the left, Lancelot in the middle with his cavalry in reserve, and Arthur on the right. This is turn two, I was pushing my Arthur's cavalry and light horse right to distract Mark's line, supported by an infantry block .Lancelot advances, while on the left Gwain moves to cover the gap left. Mark and I both ahve 11 units, but mine are nearly all 8s, whereas his while three are way harder, are all sixes. Gawain forms up his line in expectation of Vikin...

28mm rebasing of Ghaznavids, Almoravid/Almohads and added unit of Dailami for Mortem et Gloriam

Many, many years ago, on a stormy (or maybe frosty, probabaly just rainy) while playing WhAB up at Milton Keynes, a man walked into the club, plonking two or three old fashioned LARGE toolboxes on a table and declaring "I dodn't need these any more!" and walking out. One of our clubmates followed him out, and asked whether he wanted anything for them, he firmly declared no, and left. Never to be seen again! We divied out the boxes, and as we were building armies for the 'El Cid' suppliment, a quick roll-off on a d6 each, I got the last choice of an Arabic type army, which on further investigtion, turned out to be Ghaznavid. So, a quick order to Gripping Beast bought some Black Guard, generals/characters and standard bearers andmusicians. Then I rebased them for WhAB and used them for Almoravid/Almohads. Many moons later, I rebased them again for MeG is 28mm as we are practising the Magna varient (and if you read my last battle report, without much suc...