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Miniatures Adventure => Medieval Adventures => Topic started by: TWD on 23 October 2022, 09:53:03 AM

Title: Mortimer's Cross at Partizan (part two added 28/10)
Post by: TWD on 23 October 2022, 09:53:03 AM

I have been remiss with editing and posting my Partizan pictures, but here's the first batch from the Morris and Chums Mortimer's Cross game.

(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn02a_lE3O6gLLjsqPD5m2BeQbHpbax3x5yRdxHne78nPAkYjZwf0NGKMk9h70B6D0P557ToVP1jz_sbyhjPEMAhGWt24VyQv4SG2SfjsGqZpEf5XIJGF5N-F6EQFMgVIUH6PwgPq73c6czfAci-JBerCZ9twmLHPCPTAEwhbwOYGu4LgzF24ahBgoUQ/s800/P1110676_edited.jpeg)

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Much more eye candy here: https://tomstoysoldiers.blogspot.com/2022/10/mortimers-cross-at-partizan-pt1.html

Title: Re: Mortimer's Cross at Partizan
Post by: has.been on 23 October 2022, 12:35:22 PM

Very impressive, well done.

When I was a callow youth, I went to Mortimer's Cross on my motorbike.
I knew roughly where the battlefield was, near to a certain crossroads,
but there were no helpful signs when I arrived at said crossroads. I had
but three pictures left on my camera (the days of film inside camera).
Playing the odds, & with my back to the crossroad, I pointed & clicked
the camera in three of the four points of the compass.  When I got home
and checked my reference books (pre-internet) I discovered the battlefield
was in the direction I had not taken a picture.
 >:(

Title: Re: Mortimer's Cross at Partizan
Post by: TWD on 23 October 2022, 01:04:30 PM

TBF if you took three directions at least one of them *could* be right as there is ongoing discussion about the orientation and location of the battle.

I was there over the summer and the only "interpretation" is still the plinth outside what used to be a pub that was erected several hundred years after the battle.

There is an ongoing archaeological investigation of the area in an attempt to give some clarity, but so far the results have been inconclusive.

Title: Re: Mortimer's Cross at Partizan
Post by: has.been on 23 October 2022, 02:39:55 PM

True. Every few months one battlefield or another is 'discovered'
to be in a different place.
Hastings might not be at Senlac hill, but at a nearby roundabout.
Bosworth ain't where the tourists go. etc. etc.
 ;)

Title: Re: Mortimer's Cross at Partizan
Post by: MaleGriffin on 23 October 2022, 03:08:30 PM

Fantastic looking game! Superb troops and terrain!

Title: Re: Mortimer's Cross at Partizan
Post by: TWD on 28 October 2022, 11:50:55 AM

The second part of my posts about the game (lots more eye candy)

(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUvDDa2LIghuqNeYg6S11cHeZdECr5oixElOfuyyXlnf6Ez5vi45F-abZHu5OaXmoeYBNIT7_GGFmbGGypBDvkS7CwQx5OgFeCzf4juqXMkFPKDsDjD4JZhb0tmgBDVwl_IFJxR3ojo5mxASzlBzZVqIY4A0sZM3KSuPYeygFI6UfsIcRteW-dpjWdcg/s800/P1110853_edited.jpeg)

(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDZpI09Xxms8nYoYm1BTMBTo8MZqdfmd-gP71vKjwGF2XoYbK7WNiWp7PTYxAti7cEtw40e78gdnoDICHh7gEw3qkMSTwh4Ld56U7vQXEegIz9UUAaZ3XaxXX1oqnh85iVl-H3G4qgnsuNu_ni82FQ-otmW-oGcilboy2eeAmKFy476C92PjOWqbEjSQ/s799/P1110865_edited.jpeg)

(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhquUkRbw5pNVp9x16BVRqfniZk-jKpYB7wPjVkfxWLRLNv1w0RupIyRHX6vyukCiieGFOBe9mJR66JvReIaq7U4ERNtPxtBN5wt74ptwJUtOgO7zwubguB_aBh7sh2Q0f5VBTejsa3kUr4If3pq4BLnQd_GeoNi17khNBpcVt6LnVr5zmvD7zd1UJgdQ/s800/P1110878_edited.jpeg)

More here: https://tomstoysoldiers.blogspot.com/2022/10/mortimers-cross-at-partizan-pt2.html

Title: Re: Mortimer's Cross at Partizan (part two added 28/10)
Post by: JollyBob on 28 October 2022, 11:56:46 AM

That is a wonderful looking game.  8)

Can't help but feel an odd disconnect almost with all the brightly coloured WOTR troops and the essentially Dark Age Irish mercenaries. I know its right, but the little wargamer pigeonholes in my soul are crying in anguish. lol