The Dalauppror paint your egg challenge

By suggestion from Paul at Paul´s Bods that thougth I should run the "Dalauppror paint your egg challenge"...god ideea as it is still time for you all to paint your eggs during the Easter:)

So...mostly for the honour but I´ll try to find a prize to toss out amongst them that pick up the glove egg and assume the challenge.

Paint your easter egg, put a picture of it at your blog and let me know by posting here and you are then participate in the Dalauppror paint your egg challenge.

Last day to enter... Easter Monday 11:00PM ...your lokal time...not that fastidious, just fun if you start painting your eggs:)

Good luck with the egg painting !!!

Glad Påsk! / Happy Easter! Dalauppror

Easter egg

I hope you all get a nice Easter holliday, at least here in Sweden it´s four days off from work:)

The childerna and I have been painting eggs, here are a picture of an old one I painted.

Scottorum Malleus Playtest

I have got the opportunety to try out Dan Mersey, authour of the upcoming Dux Bellorum, latest (under development) wargaming rules "Scottorum Malleus". The rules are a set of medieval wargaming rules in the same spirit as Dux Bellorum.

Here are a short AAR from the first try out of the rules. I used my 15mm Catalan Company minis, got me a Duchy of Athens army against a Catalan Company army...might be the Battle of Halmyros in 1311...

In the OOB I uses the common DBx classification for the troop types...

Duchy of Athens
1xKn(Gen)
3xKn
2xBw
2xPs

Catalan Company
1xKn (Gen)
6xWb ???not realy the same troop type but close enough.
1xPs
1xLH

The unit was made up with several of my bases with a front of 80mm, 2 bases for the Kn, LH and Ps. 4 bases for the Bw and Wb.

We used a 60x90cm gaming area.

Set-up was quite straight forward for the Catalans...a big block of Almogavars in the center, Light Horse to protect the left flank and some lonely Psilios to the right. The Knights was held in reserv...

The Duchy of Athens mixed the Knights and Crossbowmen in the main line using Psilios to cover both flanks and also held the Knights in reserv...

The Catalans made some swift advances forward the Duchys forces, the plan was simple, hit them hard before they can make use of all their crossbowmen...

Duchys forces was just waiting letting the crossbowmen soften the Almogavars up a bit before the Knights was suppose to sweep them of the field.

The Almogavars didn´t care about all the crossbow bolts, just keep moving. But the Turk Light horses didn´t stay for long and was chasen away as soon as they was hit by a few arrows from the Greek Psilios...

"Desperat Ferro!!! " The Almogavars took the Knights ofguard and charged all over the line... The Almogavars and the Knights are both good in offence but not as good in defense...

The Knights that was sent away from the main line was also hit and annihilated by a unit of hard hitting Almogavars...

It was the start of a quite long and rolling fight...the knights was at first puched back, a unit of crossbow men was slaughtered...but the other unit of the Duchys Crossbowmen managed to fight of and break a unit of Almogavars...

Just before the final disaster for the Duchys troops... The Almogavars keept the initiative and made a last puch cuting down even more of the splendid Knights in shiny armour...

Then the battle ended the Catalan Company had lost 1 unit of Light Horse and 1 unit of Almogavars...The Duchy of Athens had lost a unit of Psilios, a unit of Crossbowmen and 3 units of Knights... A brilliant victory for the Catalan Company:)

The rules worked out quite nice, of course do I need to try them some more to get a cleare picture and understanding of them. The only thing that realy struck me was that the moral was a little to unpredictable, I will try the alternative moral system next time;)

House of Gylta

I just had to paint some of the lovely Claymore Casting minis,as I needed 2 more command stands to some Allmoge units I took the opportunety to mix in 2 Claymore Casting minis on each base... Here are some pictures of the first one...

This represent Bengt Gunnarsson of the House of Gylta.

He was never dubbed to a Knight and remained a Squire all he´s life. Bengt are listed among the Swedish Privy Council in 1446 and was married with Martha Andersdotter of the House of Öra. With whom he had the son Peder Bengtsson.

Bengt turned allegiance in 1452 and got in Danish service. He was sentenced in contumaciam to death for treason by the Swedish King Karl Knutsson of House of Bonde in 1453, but Bengt was then in Denmark. He returned in 1458 after King Christian I's accession to the throne, but regained not his office.

As Bengt Gunnarsson of the House of Gylta was a traitor he will most often be seen in command of a Allmoge unit in Danish service...

Last Allmoge unit for now...

Here are some more newly painted allmoge, atleast the one with polearms? are new:)

No dissmounted knight to lead them in to battle as he´s still on the painting table...next week...

And some pictures with crossbowmen in the front...

Swedish Allmoge Soldiers

During the weekend I have finisded some more Allmoge Soldiers. This unit are under command of Birger Birgersson from the house of Trolle, father to Arvid Birgersson (Trolle)

The family name comes from the family coat of arms that depicts a headless troll. According to tradition, the family had taken these arms on the basis of a legend that a common ancestor must have killed a troll and robbed a drinking horn, which was called Våxtorpshornet.

Some pictures of the whole Allmoge unit with the crossbowmen.

15th Century Handgunners

Last weekend I at last managed to paint some Handgunners that have been up at my painting table for a long while...

This will represent german mercenarys in service of a Swedish noblemen that can´t affort the latest equipment.

They might be used as light artillery to, as there is said that the Swedes deployed artillery in forest terrain...I find it not likely that they managed to deploy and make good use of a ordinary gun in the forest terrain, but the use of some heavyer Hand guns would find their way in to the historical accounts... Have to look closer in to that question...

The minis are from Perry miniatures.

Battle of Wisby 1361-2011

I came across this clip about the reenactment, Battle of Wisby 1361-2011, last summer.

Union infantry troops

Here are 2 pictures of the newly painted German Mercenary mixed in with therie units of Danish/Union infantry.

The Danes made extensive use of Mercenary, mostly from Germany, under their own command or in some cases a german noblemen. these units are under command of Swedish/Danish border nobility.

The border nobility aim at Noble Houses that had estates in both Denmark and Sweden. They often sided for the Union due to better trade possibilitys and to secure their estates in both contrys.

I have chosen to have attacking minis in the front and marching in the back.

These will be used as Heavy Infantry and will in most cases beat the shit out of the Swedish Allmoge in OPEN terrain...

Styr-Björn´s SAGA Part III

My friend Bjorn did it again, we played the Escort scenario last monday and Bjorn have made this very nice AAR of the event.

Happy reading:)