Battle of Brunkeberg 1471 in Miniature Wargames issu 376

Today is a good day, my birthday and I got the latest Miniature Wargames, issu 376, from my Swedish friend Jan that live in the UK.

The reason that he sent it was that he have writen a very interesting article about his 6mm Battle of Brunkeber 1471 project. Some of you might remember that I have published some pictures of his project here at my blog.

Now you all can read about it in the Miniature Wargames, issu 376, so pick up a copy and learn about some Swedish military history:)

Swedish Allmoge soldiers drawn by Jan and the originale kindley given to me today, 

thanks Jan !!! the best birtday gift one could get:)

Jan´s article are 6 pages and tells a historical background, OOB for Impetus (the rules they used) and also a bit aboit how Jan Built his amasing custom made terrain, as a Jan is a handycraft teacher it is a qualiry build and I hope he will bring it to some UK convention as it is well worth displaying.

Here are the pictures of his gaming board that I showed here at the blog some time ago.

Kalmar Union War for basic Impetus...

On request I have put together a basic Impetus armylist for "Rebell Swedish" and "Union/Danish" armys ranging from 1434-1471 i.e. from the Engelbrekt rebellion to Battle at Brunkeberg. I haven´t tryed them out yet, but I hope that they work... might be some changes in the future after some playtesting;)



To the Allmoge units I would use about 10 minis, 50% crossbow/longbow and 50% with different kinds of handweapon,polearms, spears and improvised weapons, I would even mix in a knight or two in some unit as the nobles often disounted and led the allmoge by example.

I would alsoe use all sorts of armour ranging from non to full plate for the knights, the allmoge troops used what armour they coud get hold of even if it was obsolete. Iron hats was comon and the occasional shield of all sorts, from the old round shield to the knight sort.

I hope this have given you some guidence...

Late Romas

Last summer did I paint some more Late Romas, but I haven´t based them untill now... whem I based these I alsoe rebasded the unit I already painted with matching shields and all my support Archers to... I guess I will rebase some more of my Late Romas...

The minis are a mix of Gripping Beast and Black Tree, based on 80x40mm for the formed infantry and 80x30mm for the Archers.

AAR Impetus Medieval Polish vs. Lithuanian

Here are a short AAR from our last Impetus game. We user my Medieval Polish and my Lithuanians.

Matts once again took command over the Polish, but he decided to use the Nobles as Cavalry this time:) Sverre commanded the Lithuanians in he´s first Impetus game.

This time we used a sligthly larger gaming board 90x120cm with a small village, a frozen field and some woods. Both armys was made up of 180 points.

Lithuanian Army
1xCL Lithuanian Nobles(*Fair General)
5xCL Lithuanians
1xFL Spearmen
CS:Average VDT 9/5

Polish Army
1xCM Polish Nobles(*Fair General)
2xCM Polish Knights 1xCL Horse Archers
2xT Archers
1xS Slingers
CS:Poor VDT:13/7

Here are a picture of the set up. The Lithuanians set up to the right and The Polish at the left. The Polish commander concentrated he´s forces on he´s left flank, leaving only some poor slingers to defend the right flank...was it a trap???

The Lithuanian commander deployed all he´s light horses in a straight line across the field, with the spearmen to protect the right flank and a order to sack the small village...



The Polish forces...exccept for the slingers that were sent on a mission to the deep forest...



The Lithuanian force, with lots of light horses just waiting for the order to advance...



...and they did...the Lithuanina Light Horses started to ride in a fast pace towards the Polish line. The polish commander held back he´s cavalry and just let the Archers advande to the frozen fields...



A picture showing the battle field after the first fighting... The Polish Archers started to shoot at the Lithuanina Light Horses, making very little damage...

The rest of the Lithuanians started to shower the polish Cavalery with javelins...making damage (they lose there Impetus bonus...)

Some of the Lithuanians started to move around the unprotected polish flank aiming to sack the Polish camp, the polish slingers didn´t dare to move out of the protecting forest to meet the threat...



The Polish General decided to make a glorius charge against the Lithuanians...but he charged alone as all other Polish cavalry was disordered... The Lithuanians made a tactical retreat...BUT the Polish General did catch up...



The Polish Cavalry did much better in this battle then the Polish Knights did last time... Several units od Lithuenian Light Horse was catched in the run and defeated. As a comfort some of the Lithuenians managed to sack the Polish camp...



The last epic strugle btween the Polish and the Lithuenian Generals...even though it looked like the Lithuenian General would win the fight, the Polish General managed to summon up the last energy and defeat the Lithuenian General... this ended the battle as the Lithuenian army broke...



It was a realy nice game, with a uncertain end...I realy have to play more often so I can learn the rules more satifactory, now it is to much time los looking trough the rules...but they allways have given us interesting games and next time we will use some more units in each army.

Medieval Swedish Commander

Here are some pictures of my second base for my Swedish Rebell army for the kalmar Union War. This are tha Command base and will represent the Swedish rebel leader Kettil Karlson Vasa leading the allmoge in the strugle against the Danish King at the Battle of Haraker 17 April 1463.













The Swedish Rebell army so far...
only 2 bases but I´m working on base 3 and 4...

Vikings

When I was mixing up the Perry and the Gripping Beast plastic minis I just had to build some vikings and make a first base of vikings in shield wall formation, they are based on a 8x4cm base, and I think that I have to make me some more...as a small side project...

Polish Army 13th Century

Here are some pictures of my 15mm Polish Army 13th Century DBA army AFTER they have been through the Extreme DBA Army Makeover and been rebased for Impetus:)