Things From The Basement New England Village

These were Christmas gifts from my Mother-in-law and wife. Things from the Basement kits are awesome. 

The Hartwell Tavern kit is great an excellent reproduction of the original.

I like the detail of the cellar door.

These are two generic colonial houses. 

Less detailed than the Hartwell Tavern but still very nice looking.

Rear view of the same houses the color choice was difficult.

This is the captain Smith House which I painted last year it's got an extra level of detail and that I really like.  

All together they make a nice little New England village... A few barns and other additions. 

Cattle raid on Brecon, 1291

 Last Friday I wend to Arofan's and helped playtest some new rules for Late Middle ages Wargaming. I was Teamed up with Kelly and faced off against Mark and Eammon.

Kelly and I had an ambush set up and it worked great with archers and crossbow men quickly seeing off a unit of cavalry scouts. 

and other a Archery units quickly establishing fire superiority over a unit of Crossbowmen. 

Turn two things were looking good our Archers and crossbowmen had the flow on units of knights pinned down while our Knights had intercepted the enemy's leading unit of knights... Then our lord died in hand to hand combat! 

Still we managed to hold our own for a bit routing the Crossbowmen and keeping many of the enemies best units pinned down. Still with only two lesser lords we didn't have the command ability to take advantage of our good shooting. 

Our "second in command" was stuck holding the center lucky for him our peasants punched well above their weight holding off trained infantry.    

Then disaster struck as another lord fell defending the village as our opponents stormed in with multiple units... the Archers and Peasant levies broke.  A crushing defeat after a good begining. 

More Like Foxes Than Lyons Outside Frankfurt 1689

Mark and I had the French Army ecoutiering Germans near Frankfurt 

We oppted to focuse outside the town I had the infantry on the right.      

We advanced with our two batteries making a deliberate fire.  

Regiment Perche got an off an excellent volley at the German Grenadiers... killing many and causing disorder... Saddly my germans on thelft were routed in a crossfire, while the Gendarmes made an charge but the Imperial German's recovered. 

Despite inflicting a lot of damage on the Germans we were un able to break the Germans on the right and our troops on the left retreated an Imperial victory.