I’ve been travelling a lot over the last few weeks and also working away on the Midgard campaign supplement, so not as many updates as usual!
Last weekend saw me paying a visit to UK Games Expo in Birmingham – my first trip. As reported to me by everyone else who has been, it’s huge! Mostly board games but a good spread of RPGs, miniatures, dice, tokens and accessories of all kinds (plus Viking/ Saxon reenactors as seen here). It’d be great to get Midgard Heroic Battles along there in the future if I can.
Jon Hodgson of Handiwork Games was also there selling his fab range of RPGs and background books – nice to catch up with him and meet author Malcolm Craig too.
Annie of Bad Squiddo was doing a sterling job of selling capybaras, turkey men and a whole range of lovely minis.
The following day, I was back on the train heading to visit illustrator and Peters Paperboys creator Peter Dennis. I’d been invited to run an introductory game of Midgard for him and some friends and decided to plump for a refight of the 1066 Battle of Stamford Bridge.
Everyone got stuck in with great fervour, resulting in an even greater bloodbath than the historical version! Hardrada and Tostig both died heroically, but so did Harold Godwinsson, thus leaving not many options to hold off Duke William. Fortunately, a random dice roll decided that the Norman fleet had been hit by a storm and William had gone to the bottom with his ships. Tolkien might have approved of that.
Showing the speed of assembly of Peters Paperboys, I made a Saxon 14-Unit Force plus Heroes in five evenings prior to the 1066 game. With a proper basing job, the effect of these 2D minis is exceptionally good.
Painting has been at a minimum as I’ve been hammering the laptop keys on various Midgard projects. However, being inspired by diorama-style whole unit basing, I’ve pulled my very old and disused Viking force out of the loft for a possible revamp.
And in the midst of all this, I also managed to take a trip to Wales to visit Gareth Lane (Lord Raglan). We played through a 2-game mini-campaign set in the Hundred Years’ War using his stunning 28mm collection and a few small rules tweaks for the later medieval period.
And today I’m catching up! More soon.
mogsymakes 
Wow: that medieval game looks awesome! Were you please with the transition to High Medieval???
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Thank you – Gareth needs all the credit as his collection is just wonderful (well worth a three hour drive to wales). We’ve played a fair bit of Late Medieval Midgard over the years with Wars of the Roses and HYW projects, but last week was the first run out for a new rule to help depict the bigger battles. I’m planning to do this as a video picture report so you’ll be able to see it all in action.
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