Some pictures of a game we had on October 25 and 26 at the "24 Heures du Jeu" games events in Theix (Brittany).
The ruleset was
« Argad ! »Two large tables (2 m x 4 m each) depicting the banks of the river Loire, on the borders between Brittany and Anjou, in the mid-14th century
(as usual the building are not models of the real places, but those that we could borrow from our players and friends).
The northern bank of the river, seen from the town of Ancenis:
and seen from the middle of the river:
The southern bank seen from the walls of Châteauceaux:
The abbay of Saint-Florent-le-Vieil :
On Saturday it was a transport and smuggling game: the GM moved merchants and carts across the tables and across the river; the Breton officer and the Angevin officer players had to stop them and tax them; the abbot also moved trade goods from his abbay and also had some mysteries to resolve; another player was a young squire looking for fortune...
As the game progressed, tensions arose, a crime in the abbay, rumours of war etc.
On Sunday the war broke out (it was 1341 after all...) and the characters of the previous day had to take sides. Some troops belonging to the French army enter the table on the eastern side:
...some Breton troops march out of Châteauceaux to meet them
(and the merchants who still walk in the middle will soon have to go away):The fight begins:
I hope I'll receive more pictures... but players are lazy.