Uesugi Kenshin  | 10 Jun 2019 3:03 p.m. PST |
I think we had this poll in the last 4-5 years but I figured it was due for an update. This time around I'll include the Dark Ages so let's say any battles from 450AD to 1500AD. These can be battles you would like to game in the future or ones you have gamed in the past and enjoyed. Do your best to only pick 5. Thanks for playing. Mine: 1) Brunanburh
2) Hastings
3) Towton
4) Mortimers Cross
5) Clontarf |
| Aethelflaeda was framed | 10 Jun 2019 5:15 p.m. PST |
Why rank them, fight them all. |
| Uesugi Kenshin | 10 Jun 2019 5:30 p.m. PST |
Money and time my friend….money and time. |
| Perris0707 | 10 Jun 2019 8:43 p.m. PST |
1. Amorium
2. Levunium
3. Acheloos
4. Dorostolon
5. Manzikert |
| dapeters | 11 Jun 2019 9:33 a.m. PST |
How Anglo-centric one and the other is just Byzantine (sorry could not help myself.) |
| Erzherzog Johann | 11 Jun 2019 9:48 p.m. PST |
Las Navas de Tolosa
Hattin |
| Mithmee | 13 Jun 2019 5:24 p.m. PST |
Money and time my friend….money and time. Well for two of the ones listed you would be using the same miniatures since they are only weeks apart. 3) Towton
4) Mortimers Cross Just would need like six times as many miniatures for Towton then for Mortimer's Cross. |
| Uesugi Kenshin | 13 Jun 2019 6:07 p.m. PST |
If I ever did get around to Towton I would definitely be using the Yorkists and Shire Levies from MC. The Tudor army not so much. |
| rampantlion | 14 Jun 2019 9:28 a.m. PST |
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| uglyfatbloke | 14 Jun 2019 10:24 a.m. PST |
Largs, Stirling Bridge, Roslin, Bannockburn, Myton, Culblean…just thought a Scot-centric list would make a change. |
| Uesugi Kenshin | 14 Jun 2019 10:37 a.m. PST |
Ugly, you're the first person besides myself to ever mention Roslin here (that I'm aware of). I bought an interesting booklet on the battle the last time i was there. Largs is an interesting choice too. Vikings Vs Medieval Scots. Thanks for the input. |
| French Wargame Holidays | 14 Jun 2019 11:26 p.m. PST |
For me
Battle of the Pavement of the Martyrs (Tours 732)
Hastings
Lewes
Verneuil
Bauge Cheers
Matt
Hercé Salon de Guerre
Mayenne, France
"Walk the battlefield in the morning, wargame it in the afternoon"
Wargame holidays France |
| Warspite1 | 16 Jun 2019 7:13 p.m. PST |
Bosworth
Stoke Field (aka East Stoke)
Towton
Mortimer's Cross
Tewkesbury |
| Mr J1970 | 18 Jun 2019 1:35 p.m. PST |
Can't quite say why, possibly a really good article in a very early edition of Miniature Wargames (that dates me), but I've always been fascinated by the Battle of Mohacs 1526 since reading it.
Possibly down to the immense scale of it as one Empire fades and another rises, the mix of costumes and differing military styles, Knights, Landsknechts and Ottoman Janissaries, what's not to like? Definitely my favourite.
Superb animation putting all of the above into context.
YouTube link
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begins his series on how to paint a 15mm DBA army well, in a reasonable time frame.
