AAR Battle at Älgsundet 1457 #2

I have had a chanse to re-play my scenario about the Battle at Älgsundet in 1457, then the Swedish Archbishop Jöns Bengtsson (Oxenstierna) rebelled against the Swedish King Karl Knutsson (Bonde)...

This time we played on a 120x180mm table.

I used a different Break point system: add the Hits for all troops in the army divide by 2 and you got the armys Break point, if you lose as many points worth of untis the army breake and they lost the battle... units that get shaken count as half the points lost as long as they stay shaken. I hope you got it...

OOB for Battle at Älgsundet...

The Rebell force

1st Battle under command of the Archbishop Jöns Bengtsson from the house of Oxenstierna.
1 Small Unit of Knights
2 Units of Allmoge

2nd Battle under command of Erik Axelsson from the house of Tott.
2 Units of Allmoge

Breake Point 4+6+6+6+6/2=14

The Kings forces

1st Battle under command of the King Karl Knutsson from the house of Bonde
2 Small unit of Mounted Knechts
1 Small unit of Mercenary Handgunners

2nd Battle under command of Erik Eriksson from the house of Gyllenstierna
2 Unit of Allmoge
1 Small unit of Mercenary Handgunners

Breake Point 4+4+4+6+6+4/2=14

Set-up...The Kings men, to the right, started in their camp. They was just awaken by the nightguards, and got to recive 2 successfull orders to get ready for the battle and for a proper battleline...

The Rebels started of board and was allowed to enter on their first turn...

The Kings men have just ruched out of theirs tent, starting to assemble for battle...

The inhabitans of the nearby farm started to move there livestock to saftey in the forest...

Just the rebel generals was placed on the Table at first...

The Rebells start to move out of the forest and up on the battlefield to come... the Knights seem to have problem in the forest as they didn´t manage to enter the field...

The King and he´s commanders had without any problem managed to rally theirs forces and form a battle line with the Mounted knecht to the right and the Allmoge to the left and both flanks covered by mercenary handgunners...

The poor farmers prepare to defend their property and to move the family members to saftey...

The Kings battle line...

The Archbishop leads from the rear of 2 units of allmoge soldiers...

The Kings battle line advance up to the Fence and awaited the rebells...

The Archbishop was so eager to see blood that he incautious advanced with he´s allmoge soldiers to confront the Kings Knechts...leaving all support behind...

The King didn´t want to lose this chance and ordered he´s Knecht to CHARGE !!!

It become a hard fight with several casualtys on both sides...but the Archbishops troops manage to resist the Cavalry charge and come out on top...

Overview...

The Archbishop had taken a chanse and was struggleing to keep the initiative in the battle... desperatly awaiting to be supported by he´s knights and more allmoge units...

The King was trying to get he´s Knecht back in to the fight...not wanting to commit he´s allmoge units just yet...

The Archbishops troops managed to brake one of the Kings Knecht units...and the Knights managed to move up just in front of the Handgunners...

The Archbishop wanted to order he´s Knights to make a hedlong charge on the Handgunners...but failed so they had to recive some more shooting...

The Rebells 2nd battle managed to, at last, make a swift advance to protect the Archbishops exposed flank...

The commander of the rebells 2nd battle ordered a fullout attack, and lead he´s allmoge warriors in a ferocious charge!!!

Hard fought combat in the center...

The Archbishops allmoge units managed by crossbow fire brake the 2nd Knecht unit...

At the same time the Knights slaughter the Kings handgunners...

Several rounds of combat did take it´s toll on the involved units...One of the Rebell allmoge units did breake by the hard pressure from The kings allmoge units...

The Rebells had lost 1 allmoge unit worth 6 breake points and the knights was Shaken, totaling up to 8 lost break points.

The King had so far lost 3 small units worth 12 break points, if any of the remaing unist would be shaken och break he would lose the battle...

In what would become to be the last round, the fight in the center ended in yet one more of the Kings allmoge units become shaken... Totaling the Kings break points to 15!

This leading to the Kings forces to break of the battle and retreat...the king managed to escape with some of he´s loyal knights and made it to the Capital Stockholm, he htought he´s cause was lost, so he took the royal treasury and fleed to exile in Danzig...

But he would be back...

Knights

About a month agoe I started to paint some Knights for my Kalmar Union War Project...but then Oskar lured me in to a "small" fantasy project...I´m now back at track, I hope...

I have 24 knights to paint, 18 Union/Danish/German and 6 Rebell/Swedish. I will paint them i batches of 6, and here are some pictures of the first 6 knights...

This will represent a small unit of Knights for the Hail Caesar rules, the average units will have 6 bases...

They are under command of a Holstein Noblemen from the House of Ahlefeldt.

As I had painted the banner from my memory, that obviously arn´t that good, I had to repaint the wing symbole on the banner...

If you don´t want to paint your own banner you can donwload realy nice ones from Dansk Figurspilsforenings.

Objective Markers

Here are a picture of some Objective markers I made for our Fantasy project, just some snow to be added...

Sorry for the poor picture quality...my mobile camera are not the best...

Warband stats

I had a question about the stats for my Song of Blades and Heroes warband... so here they are:)

I have made them after the minis was painted, so for the Pilgrims I had to lower some of the stats to get all the minis a place in the warband...

I haven´t played with them yet so I suppose they will be up for a review them I tryed them out...

Pilgrims...

I have made one more Warband for our Dark Fantasy Project, this time some "Pilgrims".

The minis are Games Workshop from my old Mordheim warband, painted at least 10 years agoe...

They have got a small makower...new bases, a wash of devland mud and some new highlights...

The dogs are the same kind of minis as for my Ordens Knight, from the chronopia range...got 5 in a blister:)

The will act as allies to my Ordens Knight...or not...

Snow...

Here are some more pictures of our Fantasy terrain, this time with the SNOW...

Still some work to be done with the wather...and then it´s time for our first game:)

Stone circle

I have just painted a terrain piece for out small Fantasy Project, a Stone circle with a stone altar in the middle, might add some more snow...but I like the cold and frosty look of the ground...

You can alsoe see a newly repainted and rebased Druid from the old Games Workshops Dogs of War range. I´m not realy sure how and if I will expand he´s "warband" yet... any suggestions?

Ready for the evil cultists to arrive...

"It isn´t mine...I was just pasing by..."

Ordens Ritter

Here are some pictures of my first Warband to Song of Blades and Heroes.

Can´t realy leave the historical gaming for fantasy so I started out light by making me a Order Knight with followers.

Ordern Brüder Udo von Dirkschneider with he´s followers.

The minis are 28mm and you might notice the snow on the bases...

Most of the minis are from the Games Workshop old Bretonnian range.

All the infantry are halberd minis, 2 of them I converted to crossbowmen...and most of them got cloaks to get some shelter from the cold weather.

The dogs are some old ones from a game called Chronopia...I think...

Ready for purification...

Congratulations !

Not realy minis and I´m not to in to sports but I make a exeption today;)

Congratulations to my friend Oskar aka Ogge the became the Swedish Champion in WTKA/Kickboxing today !

The title might DID get him in to the national team... and he´s of to the WTKA World Championship in Italy 27th to 30th October 2011...

Unfortunaly can´t I give you any AAR of the Swedish Championship, just got this picture of "Ogge the Barbarian" or "King Ogge" as it says on he´s shorts ;)

Chronicles of Hel

Lured in to a little? side project by my friend Oskar...

We are seting up a small skirmish campaign that I think we decided to call "Chronicles of Hel".

It will be a dark fantasy setting(no black powder guns...)in a snowy, cold and barbaric world there the cowards get a new chanse to prove that they are ment for better worlds...

We will start to use the rules Song of Blades and Heroes and hope that they turn out well...

Anyway it give me a chanse to paint some 28mm minis on "heroic" bases:)

Here are a VIP picture of the our gaming table and the terrain, I haven´t helped out to much, it is all thanks to Oskar.

Next step will be some tuffts and to add dipp to the marches and stream. After that the snow will fall;)

Commanders

As some of you may have noticed from the Battle at Helgeandsholmen AAR there was 2 new Commanders on the gaming table, one on each side...hera are some close-ups of them...

The First one will mostly represent the Danish Marshal Claus Rönnow.

The Yellow flag with the red cross are the official Kalmar Union banner, first mentioned by the King Erik of Pomeranian back in 1430´s

The Commander are from the Perry WoTR range.

The banner bearers are 2 Games Workshop Dogs of War minis

The second commander will mostly act on the rebell side as Nils Bosson Sture from the House Natt och Dag.

He often got the support from the Darlecarlian Allmoge, and they probably fought under a Saint olof banner.

The inspiration to the Saint Olof banner came from a Norwegian banner I found in a book about churches in Darlecarlia that was dedicated to Saint olof

The Command mini are a Kingmaker Hussit commander but I changed the broken warhammer to a Viking ax from the Gripping Beast vikings:)

The banner bearers are 2 old Games Workshop Brettonian minis...