Building a Galley and gameboard for Displaygame this weekend...

Been quite busy the last week as I have been working on a Russian galley and a 180x360cm game board for a Display game of the Battle at Stäket 1719 this weekend, its 299 years sins the battle and the Battlefield museum HAMN have a bunch of activetys and free entrance both Sunday 12/8 and Monday 13/8.

Yes we run the Battle at Stäket 1719 at Salute this year, but the splendind terrain and Gelleys that Jan built are in England so i had to do a quick and dirty build to be able to set-up the game.

The game board took me about 12 hours to make and the galley about the same amount of time, finished the painting of the Galley, that are in 1:50 scale, today and now I will focus on smaller details for the battle.

Below a bunch of pictures from my work.

Solar farm - Strontium Dog

Due to a bunch of childhood flachbacks I just needed to get me a box of the newly released Strontium Dog: The Good the Bad and the Mutie starter game from Warlord games.

The box was filled with stuff, 8 minis, different cards, rulebook, introduction scenarios/campaign (for the minis included, dice, markers and a MDF-Solar farm.

I have only had one read of the rules so cant say much about them else then I already like what they done with the lovely layouted rulebook, easy, really small scale action, perfect for a fast kitchen table game.

I have primed the minis butnot started the painting, instead I have focused to build the Solar farm from Sarissa-Precission that was included in the Strontium dag starter box. I have never erlier built any lasercut set, this one was delivered in a flat package with step-by-step instruction just like IKEA so I felt familiar... 

The build was quite easy, some of the parts felt a bit fragile, but I managed only to break one part, easy fixed with some glue:) I opted to add a bit of planks etc to get a more rag-tag look.

Below are some pictures of my painted-up Solar farm.

Fort Mosquito article in WSS-97

In the latest Wargames Soldiers and Strategy, Issue-97, you can read my and Jan´s article about our our award winning game "Fort Mosquito 1655" that we run at Salute 2017. Of course the scenario for The Pikeman´s Lament that we run are included, I hope you will have a good read.

"Jabba, you're a wonderful human being..."

Quote by Han Solo, after Jabba extended the time he had to repay his debts.

Found a Jabba key ring ar a flee market and thought it would work for Star Wars Legion, turned out to be a little bit to big to be in real scale, but I don´t mind as Hutts are quite big anyway.

The base i mounted Jabba on are a display base from a Revell X-Wing.

The Pricess and the Navy boys

Have been painting some more Star Wars Legion minis lately, Princess Leia and a box of Fleet Troopers. Decided not to paint tmen in the clasical colours but still navy inspired.

The Blida deployed in battle...

Today we had a club game revolving around the aftermath of Nyköpings gästabud (Nykoping banquet) in 1317. The Swedish king Birger Magnusson had for the past 15 years been in conflict with his brothers Erik and Valdemar. The two brothers had imprissoned their elder brother the King in 1306, an event known as the Håtunaleken (Håtunagames), they forced the King to grant them fifedomes for them self to release him, wich they did as soon as they got what they wanted.

For about 10 years the 3 brothers lived more or less in peace, in December 1317 the king invited his two brothers to the Nyköping castle for a celebration, as the brothers got drunk and fell asleep the kingBirger let his soldiers arest Erik and Valdemar throwoing them in to the castle dungeons, there they after a couple of month died of the cold temperature and starvation.

When Erik and Valdemars allied got the word of their shamefull death they gathered their forced and a rebellion started to set aside King Birger. The King fled with his wife and son Prince Magnus to the well defended Stegeborg castle.

In april 1318 the rebells started a siege of the Stegeborg castle, King Birger sent his son Prince Magnus to Denmark to ask for troops from the Kings wifes brother, the king of Denmark.Prince magnus returned from Denamrk with Danish troops during the summer of 1318 to relife his father and mother that was besiged in the castle...

700-years later I set up a game depicting the battle when the Danish reinforcement arrives...

We was usin the Lion Rampant rules with 4 players on each side commanding a 12 point force (2-3 units)

Below you will find a bunch of pictures from the game.I wont give you a full AAR, sorry, but a short recap after the pictures... 

 

The rebells attacked the Castle with their Blida (Trebuchet) and also foot troops that tried to cross the river with boars and to re-build the broken bridge.

As the rebell started their attack Prince magnus arrived with the danish troops from behind catcing the rebells in between him and his father at the castle. The rebells divided their forces to protect the Blida as well as engage the new threat and also try to capture the castle.

It turned out to become an intense game that a long time looked to favour the King, but as so often playing Lion Rampant, it ain´t over untill the fat lady sings...

King Birger managed to hold the castle but the Danish reinforcement force was utterly defeated as Prince Magnus was slain in a Chalange leaving the Danes without a propper leader.

The outcome was as the real History, King Birger and his wife fled from the castle to the Island Gotland and further to Denmark, never to return to Sweden. Prince Magnus continued to defent the Stegeborg Castle untill August 1318 when the castle was captured. Prince Magnus was taken and imprissoned in  Stockholm untill his execution in October 1320.

In 1319 Magnus Eriksson (son to Erik one of the two brother murdered at Nyköping banquet) was elected King at the age of 3. King Magnus ruled Sweden untill 1364, almost 45 years, the longest time a King ruled Sweden untill just some month ago when our present day Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf broke his record of reign.