By "Foreign" I mean, of course, Yorkshire
Not that I particularly begrudge the Tykes being the winners of the War of the Roses, it's just that they do talk funny.
Today I had permission from Wonder Wife to go and play a wargame with Richard, off in the wilds of Storrs.
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| Storrs. Slightly to one side of nowhere |
To get there I normally go via the Snake Pass, then turn off onto a long unmarked B road and carry on for a few miles.
Not today! The B road was closed - according to Richard due to a collapsed building - and I had to continue along the main road, wondering when I'd get the chance to turn left and head north. For miles I wondered, until I hit another road closure - according to Andy, due to a landslip - and got shunted off onto another road.
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| How Conrad felt |
Now, the game itself was fun: quick, bloody and decisive, and best of all I won won won. Not to gloat about it but I won.
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| Our 5th Century battlefield: Conrads troops at lower left |
On my way to winning, the Saxon allies of both Roman pretenders to the British throne went at each other great guns and practically wiped each other out.
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| Left of the road, the Saxons (and Goths) have mostly been routed |
My troops steadfastly marched on, bumping into the enemy Romans and light horse
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| Luck and good dice rolls help Paulus Flavius' troops to win; that's my troops next to the forest |
After mashing the enemy's swede, what was left? Only this:
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| Excuse lens dazzle.. Those are my troops, with an enemy base barely visible in the glare of what appears to be an anachronistic H-bomb |
Then it was time to go home. Could I find the way back along my original diverted route? Not at all. There was a single "Diverted Traffic" sign for direction, and after that it was up to telepathy, apparently, which didn't work because it doesn't exist (yet). So I came home via the motorway, which of course had miles and miles and miles of Average Speed Camera-monitored roadworks.
After The Battle Tittle-Tattle
One of the pleasures of an afternoon with Richard is that he has his fingers squarely on the pulse of all things wargamey. This afternoon I learnt that Henry Hyde, far from suffering financial disaster with his magazine "Battlegames", is now editor of Miniature Wargaming*, which magazine is transformed for the better since I gave up buying it years ago. So - Conrad may be taking out a subscription in the New Year ...
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| See? It really exists! |
After all that rampant militarism, how about ending with a picture of cuddly ducks?
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| One of these ducks is an infectious alien shape-shifting Thing. Good luck find out which! |
I shall say ta-ta.
*Miniature Wargaming, Battlegames, White Dwarf, Wargaming Illustrated - admit it, you never knew there were so many hobby publications, did you?
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