"Scenario Books" Topic

Are the books that go into some OOB, Terrain , other details on any dark age, middle ages battles?

Martin Hackett wrote "The Wargamers Guide to Dark Age Britain.". In it, he tries to establish the battle fields, oob's and probable course of battle. I believe he recently released a book on battles in Wales, too.

Nifty, I ordered it, thanks.

If you stretch as far as the War of the Roses try the source books. There's lots of free sample pages too.

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For some odd reason, I thought Gripping Beast/Tomahawk Studio/4Ground were suppose to collaborate on a SAGA scenario book to use with the Viking Great Hall produced by 4Ground. I have been waiting for the book and nothing yet.

Agreed, original saga seems almost totally unsupported mow that the Crusade variant came out? I'm still hoping for a Arthurian source book!

If you look here link there is a freebie for the Battle of Heavenfield, also if you look at the refight of Deorham (Dyrrhim) you will be able to work out a game from that.

I keep my info general as having researched a lot of these battles there really is a paucity of information, sometimes even the place or year is suspect.

For many if you have a vague idea then it is easy just to get on with it with what you have at hand.

Yeah its not so much a matter of my wanting to be dead on with historical accuracy as much as I enjoy the painting and fielding of the armies. The playing of the game, and despise list making as a whole.

I would rather play a game with the resources on hand per se, rather than try and make my own lists. So I figured historical scenarios would be a good route.

Then I realized I get so distracted and crazy, thats its probably best that I look around find a scenario and build the troops & battlefield, that might make me less ohhhh look shiny XYZ!!!!