Yet more photos

These additional photos are the courtesy of Mike who turned up later on the Saturday and took some photos of the game. As you can tell much better quality than the ones I take, he does have a fangled camera though. I've got more photos of the Sunday game which was Greeks against Persians and will post them in the next couple of days.

El Cid vs Ben Yusuf

Clash of infantry lines

Andalusian Nobles break the Christian mercenaries

El Cid with his knights breaks the Black Guard

El cid game

Just got back and decided to post some of the photos I took of the game. An enjoyable game it was. With the valley divided in two, we split our forces with jinetes and light troops leading the way. We managed to catch the almoravids flat footed, reaching the plain and routing their horse. As our infantry managed to spill onto the plain they suffered heavy casualties to massed bow fire. The boys did us proud eventually closing with the enemy and breaking their resistance. We didnt have it all our own way, nearly loosing the supplies on a couple of occasions. Our knights proved devastating in attack, but despite all that armour didnt help as archers seemed to pick them of at will. The battle ended with el cid killing ben yusuf in one on one combat.

last minute additions

With being at Micks this weekend I put a little effort in today and painted up anothrr small unit from figures I still had to do. If I had been a bit more motivated, there were another 2 units of skirmishers that could have been added.

Mick sent through the scenario and I am little worried. I have to march to the relief of Cordoba, under seige by those dastardly almoravids. I have fight lengthways down an 18ft table with goodness knows what attacking my flanks and preventing me reaching the plains. Did I mention it was a narrow valley! This should be fun.

El CId Army

Got an Email from Mick a couple of days ago, inviting a few of us up in March for an Ancients weekend. I think the Saturday will be a large DBA variant game of Greek Hoplites either against each other or Persians. The Sunday will be a large WAB El Cid game and I've been asked to bring along my figures. Well this gave me a chance to check through the army to remind me what I had. It's been a couple of years since I've used these.

The total force comprises of 102 mounted figures split 60/40% between heavies and lights. The infantry is made up of 158 heavy (including African mercenaries.) and 110 lights including slingers, bowmen, javelins and crossbows. Since the figures were out I couldn't help but take a couple of photos.

Christian Infantry

Andalusian Infantry

Mounted force

El Cid Page

I've updated my El Cid page with some more pictures of the mounted part of the army. Once again been practicing with the camera and managed to get out doors to take the photos which does seem to improve the quality (thanks Paul). I will eventually sort out the infantry units and add those as well. Sometime in the future I think I'll add some more gallery pages (once I crack the photography) to cover my other WAB armies, Arthurian, Germanic tribes and Huns.

Gaming Weekend return

Got back yesterday after a very enjoyable weekend of wargaming. This will be a picture heavy post as I remembered to take the camera. Once again Jon and myself teamed up for the El Cid game, a much tougher game than last time, as the game drew to a close we were on top but hadn't had it all our own way. I think next time a smaller battle is in order.

My advancing battle line

Basque javelin men taking the scenic route

The two lines approach

Clash of Kings, meeting to decide the outcome

I'll post some pics of the Marlburian game later

Gaming Weekend

Well got a full weekends gaming coming up. Going with a couple of club members to a friends house on the border, 2 days of large battles. Saturday is fighting a marlburian battle, got my saxon forces dusted down for that one, followed by a WAB El Cid battle on the Sunday (9000 pts per side). To whet the appetite I have put up some photos of the last weekend gaming we had, both a Lord of the Rings battle and El Cid WAB game. On my return I'll post some pics of this weekends gaming

Some shots of the El Cid game ( resounding victory for Jon and Me)