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Medieval Week...

Hi again:) sorry for not moderated your comments the last week, I haven´t had a computer aroud...

Me and my family have been to Visby on the Swedish Island Gotland for the yearly Medieval Week (always week 32) for the first time after 5 years absens, after 10 straight years:)

I will post some photos during the week, now I have to unpack and maybe paint a mini or two...

Please have a look at the webbsite for the Medieval Week on Gotland.


Part of the City wall around Visby

Flea Market Bargains

I have built one Swedish log house but I will need some more and during this summer I have been looking around several flea markets up in Darlecarlia for some souvenir houses...


...and I found this 3 for only 30SEK ($5/£3/€3) that I thought would work fine after some remodeling...


...the houses after some remodeling, the right one was still to high so I have removes one more layers of logs...they are now waiting to be painted in a week or so...

I will ofcourse build me some more Sewdeish medieval houses but this was a fast and easy way to get started...

AAR Battle at Älgsundet 1457

At last have I played my first Kalmar Union War game using the Hail Caesar rules. I have writen a small scenario about the Battle at Älgsundet in 1457, then the Swedish Archbishop Jöns Bengtsson (Oxenstierna) rebelled against the Swedish King Karl Knutsson (Bonde)...

I diden´t have the time to go down to the club and play it ou,t so my kitchen table had to do...and the only gamingmat I had was 60x90cm!!! But as Hail Caesar is a realy adaptable game system so it worked out fine:)

I had to make some small changes...I only fielded half of the units in my scenario and I used Centimetres instead of Inch...

And I changed the Break point system to: 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 condense...

The Rebell force under command of the Archbishop Jöns Bengtsson of the house of Oxenstierna.
2 Units of Allmoge
1 Small unit of Allmoge skirmishers
Breake Point 6+6+4/2=8

The Kings forces under command of the King Karl Knutsson from the House of Bonde
1 Small unit of Mounted Knechts
1 Unit of Allmoge
1 Small unit of Mercenary Handgunners
Breake Point 4+6+4/2=7


Set up map for my orginal scenario, yes I have lost a D in Älgsundet;)


My small gaming board, the troops moved in on turn 1...and a Shepherd with some livestock as spectators...


The Battle begins with a cautious advance by both sides... The Archbishops troops to the left and the Kings troops to the right...


The Kings Mercenary Handgunners advanced in cover of the fenced field...


The Archbishop sends he´s skirmishers out to the right to screen of the Handgunners...while he´s Allmoge units start to shower the Kings troops with crossbow bolts...


Both sides try to soften the enemy troops by crossbow fire... in the back you can see the King rally he´s Allmoge troops...

At the same timetThe Kings Handgunners managed to frighten of the Allmoge skirmishers...and make the Archbishops side to loose 4 Break points... just 4 left...


As the Kings troops were a little inferior in shooting capacity, they decided to charge !!!

A intence close combat that lasted for 3 turns followed...


At fisrst it seemed like the Archbishop would be Victorious as the Kings men started to retreat...

BUT The Kings Allmoge troops came out on top in the end, then they manage to break one of the Archbishops Allmoge units and make the Archbishops side to loose another 6 Break Points to a total of 10 lost Break points and a Lost Battle...

Even in a Insignificant format, like this gam,e Hail Caesar have proven to be a greate game system! We had a realy fun and intense game that lasted for a little more than one hour.

Below you can fins my Scenario and it wouldent be to hard to be set in the WOtR, playing the Allmoge units as mixed Bill and Bow units... Please let me know if you try it out:)

MUUUUUUUU !!!

I got me some medieval cows that are making some noise;) and of course a heard of sheeps witha a vigilant shepherd...

I painted them for my Kalmar Union War Project but as they are quite generic I will use them for my AWI project to:)


The Cows are from Redoupt


The Sheeps are from Gripping Beast and the Shepherd are a Perry pilgrim...

House of Vinstorp

Here we have some Danish and German mercenarys under command of Staffan Bengtsson from the House of Vinstorp.

The Hous of Vinstorp was from the border nobility. i.e Nobles that often had estates on boath sides of the Danish/Swedish border in the area around Scania, Blekinge and Halland (Denmark at the time) and Småland, Östergötalans (Sweden at the time).

Many Nobles from the border nobility sided with the Union/Danish as they wanted to preserve the union for easy trad over the border and easy access to their estates on both sides.


My aim was to using red, yellow and white a little more to get a slightly obvious Union/Danish and "uniform" look of the unit, as they was mercenarys


At the moment the Danish/Union unit also have a couple of crossbow bases, not realy sure if they fought mixed as the Allmoge, probablu not, but at the moment they do... I will paint up some more and then I will have tha possibility to chose...


All minis are from the Perry plastic mercenary box, with coverted pikes to Bills. The Commandes arms are from a old Games Workshop Empire box...




As you can see I have tow different colour schemes, one for the banner and one for the trumpet flag...The House of Vinstorp was a little special about their Coat of Arms, two contemporary members did not use the same colours on their Coat of Arms, as was the costumary with other Noble Houses.


Coat of arms for the House of Vinstorp


Several alternative Coat of Arms for the House of Vinstorp

House of Gren

Here ar the 2nd unit of Knecht this time under command of Magnus Stensson from the House of Gren.


I will use this banner for Magnus son Ivar Magnusson to.


Two small units of Knechts under command of Swedish Nobles loyal to the Union...

House of Bielke

Here are my first mounted tropps for my Kalmar Union Project. This are some Knechts under command of Ture Turesson from the house of Bielke.

Ture Turesson was a Swedish noblemen that was a close allied to the Union King Christian I. After the Battle/Slaughter of Helgeandsholmen in 1463 he was known as the "Allmogens Köttmånger" i.e."Allmoge Butcher"


Coat of Armd for the House of Bielke.


The Knechts was full time soldiers and did the "dirty work" for the Noblemens...

The minis are most Kingmaker but ther are a Crusader mini to and the leader mini are a old GW Dogs of war mercenary mini that got a crossbow instead of he´s lance:)


Armed with Crossbows, Swords and god Armour the Knechts was ready to collect taxes and subdue allmoge rebellions...

Union/Danish Handgunners

This are 2 small units of German Mercenary Handgunners with the latest and best equipment you can hire for money...





For the rebells I will use the cool but old fashion handgunners from the Perry HYW range...

Medieval Civilians

Not to many yet, but my aim are to have enought to populate a whole willage:)

Cows, Sheeps and a shepherd are in progress...



And some minis that I painted for the Impetus diorama bases, they have now ended up as casullty bases...more to come here to...