Games were:
- “Basic Impetus”, 28mm, 11th Century, Byzantines against Fatamids.
- “Shieldwall” (by Simon MacDowall), 28mm, 7th Century, Mercians against Northumbrians.
- “Flames of War”, 9mm, Dersert War WW2, British against Germans.
- “Legends of the Wild West” (amended), 28mm, Winter War WW2 Norway.
Ian
We fought two BI games Fatimids versus Komnenan Byzantines last night. In the first, a very close thing, the Byzantines lost the crucial multi unit cavalry action in the centre and in the second the Fatimids, despite holding up the Byzantine Franks with a mere Berber light horse unit and destroying the enemy left wing with their turkish ghulams lost out in the centre to a rampaging Varangian Guard who destroyed most of the Fatimid foot singlehanded.
Hugh and I used Simom MacDowall’s “Shieldwall” rules – not to be confused with the Warhammer supplement of the same name. It was our first outing with the rules, and inevitably we made a few errors. Despite our misunderstandings, these rules seem to be a brave attempt at modelling a potentially fairly bland infantry slog. You can download the rules (and various other interesting bits and pieces) from Simon’s website:
http://legio-wargames.com/