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Creative => Story-Telling => Topic started by: AndrewL on April 03, 2010, 15:49:33
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Dear All,
I've posted pictures of a battle I fought with some of my customised medieval troops over at Garden Wargaming: http://gardenwargaming.playclicks.com/forum/index.php?topic=1387.0
Given what I think of as the non-belligerent ethos of this board (it is Playmofriends, after all :D), I figured it wasn't quite right to post these pictures here. But should anyone wish to go and have a look, please do!
And if folks here would like to see the pics on this board, just let me know.
Cheers,
AndrewL
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Given what I think of as the non-belligerent ethos of this board (it is Playmofriends, after all :D)
That's why we have Garden Wargaming (http://gardenwargaming.playclicks.com/forum/index.php?topic=1387.0), Andrew ... :klickygrin:
BTW, for those of you who enjoyed Andrew's "Medieval Groups", you'll love seeing them organized into armies. Very, very impressive!
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And Richard, there's lots more photos up now at G-W than there were when you first looked ;) :wave:
Cheers,
AndrewL
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Wow!!! :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: This was really impressive Andrew!!! Great formations and battle!!! Really loved the little details!!!!I've always wanted to do that....
How much time did it take to set up and do the battle????
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... How much time did it take to set up and do the battle????
Hi Wolf Knight,
Thanks! :)9
I think I played it out over a couple of days. This wasn't a problem, since that room in our house has been largely given over to Playmobil, and there was nothing to prevent me from leaving things all set up over a couple of nights.
But as you can see from the pictures, the room isn't completely given over to Playmobil -- there's a few other things taking up space as well (like the desk and computer on which I'm writing this post! :lol:).
Maybe some day I'll have space to fight one out on a really grand scale :prays:
Cheers,
AndrewL
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intresting! :)
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Maybe some day I'll have space to fight one out on a really grand scale :prays:
Is it possible for you to go outside, Andrew?
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I think Andrew has photographed and narrated a great Medieval battle that is certainly worth checking out.
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Very impressive! :wow: :wow:
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Hi All,
Many thanks for your kind comments -- much appreciated.
To answer Richard's question: yes, it would be possible to go outside, and indeed I have occasionally contemplated doing so. A garden wargame in... wait for it... a garden ;) It would be about 6m square to work with, but that would still be a bit more than what I've got in the Playmobil room/study in the house.
I shall start planning something now, but I think I'd prefer to wait until summer really arrives: more light and warmer. Springtime weather in England, even southern England, can be, um, unpredictable.
Cheers,
AndrewL
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... yes, it would be possible to go outside, and indeed I have occasionally contemplated doing so. A garden wargame in... wait for it... a garden ;)
(http://www.gardenwargamer.com/images/lolsign.gif) ... (http://www.gardenwargamer.com/images/breakmeup.gif)
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Great battle Andrew, did you use a set of rules or just wing it?
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Great battle Andrew, did you use a set of rules or just wing it?
Hi Martin,
I did use rules, but not any established set. H G Wells's Little Wars is very artillery-dependent, and so not suitable for a medieval battle. I could probably use something like Mordheim or Warhammer, but I've never been into either of those. I've found some other sets of rules on the web (e.g., De Bellis Antiquitatis and De Bellis Multitudinis), and of course WoT's own Melee Combat rules (see http://gardenwargaming.playclicks.com/forum/index.php?topic=1370.0). No offense to any of these (or their authors WoT!), but I find most of them overly complex and too dependent on keeping track of too much information on scorecards.
Also, I don't know of anyone else in my area who would be interested in medieval wargaming with Playmobil, so I fight out the battles on my own: me against me. That being the case, there's not much chance of being surprised by the opposing general!
What I do is mostly determined by rolling six-sided dice and leaving quite a bit of the action up to the luck of the dice. I do keep track of units' morale on pieces of paper, but most of the rest of the play is down to lots of individual combats between Klickys: higher roll wins!
The 'story' I told in the G-W thread is a synopsis of what happened, but I didn't know what the outcome would be when it started. Each army takes its turn, and I try to maneuver the troops in such a way as to gain maximum advantage against the other side, but, like I said, success or failure in combat (and in questions or morale) is down to the dice.
Anyway, it amuses me, and I enjoy it, so that's the key thing, right?
Cheers,
AndrewL
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Anyway, it amuses me, and I enjoy it, so that's the key thing, right?
ABSOLUTELY !!! ... :klickygrin:
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Maybe some day I'll have space to fight one out on a really grand scale :prays:
You dont call this grand scale??? :omg:
I have battles a 1/4 of the size and they are "big" for me... :P
I hope you had fun!
Also, I don't know of anyone else in my area who would be interested in medieval wargaming with Playmobil...
Where (Not exsacly of course... approxomatly) do you live? ;)
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Hi WoT,
Sorry not to have replied sooner...
Yes, it was a lot of fun, though all the bending and kneeling left my joints a bit sore after a while!
You are right: 'grand scale' is in the eye of the beholder. I tend to think 'grand' means the sort of scale some folks over on Garden Wargaming can do: 1-2,000 figures set up over 25+ square metres. I don't want to get fixated on the space or number of figures, though: bigger is not always better. The key thing is having fun!
I live in Portsmouth, in England.
And by the way... I'm fighting another battle now, so there will be more pictures up on G-W hopefully in the next week or so.
Cheers,
AndrewL
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1-2,000 klickies... That would be grand scale! :o
I have always marveled at the amount of Playmobil some folks at Garden Wargaming use for their battles! (Think of that with Medieval klickies! :love: )
England... Too bad, slightly far a way for me (I live in the US)... ;)
Can't wait to see that pictures!