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Wooden Spoon for TOIL VI

Another Dark Aged themed spoon for a Dark Aged themed MEG competition, not bad considering the competition is this weekend, and I hadn't started it this morning:

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...

EMERGENCY REPLACEMENT - Wooden Spoon for Rollcall this weekend.

Due to the organiser being ill, an emergancy soon was needed for this weekend. The 28mm MeG pool is open themed, but nearly all the armies were Roman or Italian Wars in our pool, the spoon idea popped into my headbased on a comment by a friend:- "I see three of us didn't get the Italian Wars memo!" It only took an hour and a half tonight, but I actually prefer this one!    And now a wooden spoon for Rollcall this weekend!  It's an Easter weekend competition, so here's Bugs... (With apologese to Tex Avery)

Wooden spoon for TOIL III

  Ran TOIL III recently (Time Of Inadequate Lighting - an Early Medieval/Dark Aged MeG themed event), last year was Hagar, so this year it's his long suffering wife Helga