Anglo-Saxon Wargaming at Sutton Hoo – 30th July 2023

We’re very excited to be heading down to Sutton Hoo at the weekend for the National Trust’s Festival of Archaeology. We’ll be running participation games for two 7th Century battles – Degsastan 603 (using 15mm miniatures) and River Idle 616 (using 28mm miniatures), as well as helping to host a painting table where you can ‘Paint your own Saxon Thegn’ – many thanks to the generous lads at Gripping Beast who have donated all the models for this activity. There will also be a game of Too Fat Lardies’ Dux Britanniarum (hosted by Ernie and Richard) that I’m looking forward to seeing.

Given that we’re running public participation games, I’ve opted to use a 2-page set of my own rules called Mead-Price which play in around 20-30 minutes. They’re really simple but include a couple of concepts from Midgard Heroic Battles (mostly goblets!)

For the event, I’ve added a page to the Dark Ages section of the website: Getting Started in Early Medieval Wargaming, which also includes a download of the Mead-Price rules.

We’ll add pictures and updates on the @mogysmakes social media as time allows. Cheers!