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Miniatures Adventure => Medieval Adventures => Topic started by: James Morris on 24 May 2025, 09:03:13 PM

Title: Battle of Mount Badon
Post by: James Morris on 24 May 2025, 09:03:13 PM
Last weekend, we ran the Battle of Mount Badon (according to Bernard Cornwell) at the Partizan show in Newark. We used Midgard Heroic Battles and larger than usual units, allowing us to crack through the action and complete the game by 3pm with a very narrow victory to the Britons (though with the loss of Arthur, Derfel, Sagramor and Tewdric). 

I did all the terrain but forces were drawn from six of our collections to get around a thousand minis on the table.

Here’s a selection of photos - you can see the full picture report here: https://mogsymakes.net/the-battle-of-mount-badon-partizan-2025/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwKfBGVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHrtepPlPw4bOvc20GMBM2T7Y4KZt88d0MnE4tQuyQx1kuOafzfwdGuwvLGQL_aem_HVJn8GtIalTO7l9m8PNQMw (https://mogsymakes.net/the-battle-of-mount-badon-partizan-2025/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwKfBGVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHrtepPlPw4bOvc20GMBM2T7Y4KZt88d0MnE4tQuyQx1kuOafzfwdGuwvLGQL_aem_HVJn8GtIalTO7l9m8PNQMw)
Title: Re: Battle of Mount Badon
Post by: James Morris on 24 May 2025, 09:50:26 PM
A couple of pre game shots of the combatants, backgrounds by Jon Hodgson Backdrops
Title: Re: Battle of Mount Badon
Post by: voltan on 24 May 2025, 10:04:43 PM
That looks a spectacular setup, though I bet Merlin's annoyed he has to find a new Arthur again. :)
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Post by: macmod on 24 May 2025, 11:20:16 PM
Cracking game
Title: Re: Battle of Mount Badon
Post by: Frostie on 25 May 2025, 07:44:40 AM
Great looking game
Title: Re: Battle of Mount Badon
Post by: RedRowan on 25 May 2025, 09:55:01 AM
That's an amazing looking game.

Steve
Title: Re: Battle of Mount Badon
Post by: Basementboy on 25 May 2025, 05:04:50 PM
Looks great! Amazing level of detail on each model for such a huge force as well :-*
Title: Re: Battle of Mount Badon
Post by: fred on 25 May 2025, 05:12:15 PM
What a great looking game - and good to see details of some of the units too.

Well done on best of show - looks well deserved.

I am also impressed with your photos of the whole table - too often it seems very hard to get good shots of a large game.
Title: Re: Battle of Mount Badon
Post by: James Morris on 25 May 2025, 06:18:50 PM
And a few more of the combatants. 
Title: Re: Battle of Mount Badon
Post by: James Morris on 25 May 2025, 06:24:13 PM
What a great looking game - and good to see details of some of the units too.

Well done on best of show - looks well deserved.

I am also impressed with your photos of the whole table - too often it seems very hard to get good shots of a large game.

Many thanks! Quite a few of the shots were taken before the show started and you could get round the table more easily, but it’s a real art to squeeze the scale of the game in.

There’s a great table level video of some of the games here- Mount Badon is first up: https://youtu.be/nLHfWaEbNl8?si=k6d-OHY6xNk-rlOZ (https://youtu.be/nLHfWaEbNl8?si=k6d-OHY6xNk-rlOZ)
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Post by: Little Odo on 25 May 2025, 07:29:17 PM
Great looking game.
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Post by: LouieN on 26 May 2025, 02:36:23 AM
Thanks for the report
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Post by: Eric the Shed on 26 May 2025, 08:19:15 AM
Looks fantastic....any chance of sharing the orders of battle please
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Post by: Patrice on 26 May 2025, 01:15:58 PM
 :o :o Beautiful terrain (and figures).
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Post by: Sunjester on 27 May 2025, 08:51:39 AM
Just simply stunning! lol
Title: Re: Battle of Mount Badon
Post by: Atheling on 27 May 2025, 11:41:30 AM
"Such wonderful things" James et al  :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Post by: Ragnar on 27 May 2025, 11:55:26 AM
Brilliant looking set up.
Title: Re: Battle of Mount Badon
Post by: Marine0846 on 27 May 2025, 04:39:54 PM
Lovely table.
Great photo of the whole battlefield.
Title: Re: Battle of Mount Badon
Post by: James Morris on 27 May 2025, 07:09:52 PM
Looks fantastic....any chance of sharing the orders of battle please

Thank you! I’ve agreed to write up the scenario and OOBs for Miniature Wargames so hopefully available later this year.
Title: Re: Battle of Mount Badon
Post by: Kitsune on 28 May 2025, 08:16:24 PM
Thank you! I’ve agreed to write up the scenario and OOBs for Miniature Wargames so hopefully available later this year.

Does the website have a search function? Would be good to browse through various things, but can’t see one? Many thanks
Title: Re: Battle of Mount Badon
Post by: James Morris on 31 May 2025, 08:26:01 AM
Does the website have a search function? Would be good to browse through various things, but can’t see one? Many thanks

Not at the moment. The various menus need updating and linking to the most recent articles, but time has been tight recently.