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Title: Battle of Barnet: #worldwarroses
Post by: James Morris on May 22, 2021, 07:38:05 AM: It’s the #worldwarroses event today and TWD and myself are meeting up for a refight of Barnet 1471. This battle has always fascinated me, having grown up near Warwick but being a Yorkist sympathiser at heart. I’ve been busy working on command stands for the main protagonists as well as some extra bill and bow. Here’s a few posed shots prior to setting out the main battle that owe more than a little to the amazing paintings of Graham Turner. (Before anyone asks, the fog is neither a year’s collection on navel fluff nor the packing material from Perry metals; it’s soft toy stuffing). TWD and I will add a battle report later!

Figures are Perry plastics with some Old Glory metals; flags are from Freezywater with some painting over; background is a download from the Jon Hodgson Maps Patreon site.
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Post by: Ragnar on May 22, 2021, 07:44:33 AM: Excellent, probably my favourite battle from the period too. Let's hope the traitor gets his come-uppance again.
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Post by: RedRowan on May 22, 2021, 08:16:55 AM: Looking very nice.

Steve
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Post by: Wilgut Spleens on May 22, 2021, 08:48:01 AM: Some excellent pictures there , the Hodgsons are very atmospheric, lends the whole thing a sense of reality
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Post by: Harry Faversham on May 22, 2021, 09:08:00 AM: A couple of them piccys look like stills from Barnet... the movie!

:-*
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Post by: Eric the Shed on May 22, 2021, 09:12:11 AM: looks beautiful
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Post by: Captain Blood on May 22, 2021, 09:21:12 AM: Super job, James.
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Post by: majorsmith on May 22, 2021, 09:35:12 AM: Fantastic painting and pictures
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Post by: Atheling on May 22, 2021, 10:44:50 AM: Lovely evocative expressive scenes James :-* :-* :-*

I'm definitely going to have to have a good look/see on Jon Hodgson Maps Patreon site!
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Post by: FierceKitty on May 22, 2021, 11:40:58 AM: Clever mist effect! My report is at https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=128570.90 (pp. 7, 8).
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Post by: Norm on May 22, 2021, 03:33:01 PM: Lovely job, the mist and background pic make for a superb atmospheric shot - very nicely done. Look forwards to the report.
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Post by: Paul Richardson on May 22, 2021, 05:23:07 PM: Excellent, but I hope no soft toys were damaged in the making of these scenes.
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Post by: James Morris on May 22, 2021, 06:03:28 PM: Quote from: Paul Richardson on May 22, 2021, 05:23:07 PM
Excellent, but I hope no soft toys were damaged in the making of these scenes.

Warwick had a penchant for skinning teddy bears to use as his kriegspiel cloths. This was an ideal use for the stuffing 🐻
Title: Re: Battle of Barnet: #worldwarroses
Post by: James Morris on May 22, 2021, 06:23:21 PM: Quote from: Harry Faversham on May 22, 2021, 09:08:00 AM
A couple of them piccys look like stills from Barnet... the movie!

:-*

That’s high praise! I fear that, in Barnet - the movie, the battle would be preceded by a battery of trebuchets on both sides throwing flaming barrels of gunpowder at each other, followed by Eddie charging into battle on a warhorse and single handedly killing Warwick with a spiked flail. Maybe I dreamt that bit. 😂
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Post by: Atheling on May 22, 2021, 06:25:04 PM: Quote from: James Morris on May 22, 2021, 06:23:21 PM
That’s high praise! I fear that, in Barnet - the movie, the battle would be preceded by a battery of trebuchets on both sides throwing flaming barrels of gunpowder at each other, followed by Eddie charging into battle on a warhorse and single handedly killing Warwick with a spiked flail. Maybe I dreamt that bit. 😂

Nope. A perfect prediction. Let's hope they don't make that movie!
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Post by: Tonhel on May 22, 2021, 08:00:25 PM: That is amazing! :-*
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Post by: Hu Rhu on May 22, 2021, 10:03:31 PM: Wonderful painting and excellent 'special effects'. :-* :-* :-*
Title: Re: Battle of Barnet: #worldwarroses
Post by: James Morris on May 22, 2021, 10:22:32 PM: Well, that was a fun day’s gaming! First time with all three is us in a room for five years, by my reckoning. TWD will doubtless be along with a proper battle report, but the brief version is that history was repeated and Edward IV won the day. Lord Hastings distinguished himself, breaking through Exeter’s men on one flank, while Gloucester captured Oxford on the other. Both Hastings and Gloucester were wounded though, while Clarence was killed in the vicious fight for the centre (that’ll save Eddie a whole deal of trouble and a vat of Malmsey in years to come). Warwick and Montagu were last seen heading for their horses.

We also managed to join the #worldwarroses Zoom call in the afternoon- many thanks to the organisers! The event certainly inspired us to get some painting done and get the minis on the table (my first WOTR game in maybe 15 years). All figures painted by myself, TWD, Scrivs and Martin, who unfortunately couldn’t make it.
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Post by: Dave Knight on May 22, 2021, 10:26:00 PM: Excellent looking game
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Post by: FierceKitty on May 23, 2021, 02:45:08 AM: With thy brave bearing should I be in love,//But that thou art so fast mine enemy!

(from memory; hope I got it right!)
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Post by: FierceKitty on May 23, 2021, 03:05:09 AM: @ James Morris:

You forgot Richard of Gloucester's single combat with Margaret of Anjou, the massed cavalry (or maybe chariot) charge, the fact that George of Clarence would be played by Eddie Murphy, the scenes set in Prague morphing for St Albans, and Anne Neville's running away to Virginia with Edward of Lancaster.

Ah, and only Richard of Gloucester would have an English accent, though it would be faultless House of Lords diction.
Title: Re: Battle of Barnet: #worldwarroses
Post by: James Morris on May 23, 2021, 07:35:42 AM: Quote from: FierceKitty on May 23, 2021, 03:05:09 AM
@ James Morris:

You forgot Richard of Gloucester's single combat with Margaret of Anjou, the massed cavalry (or maybe chariot) charge, the fact that George of Clarence would be played by Eddie Murphy, the scenes set in Prague morphing for St Albans, and Anne Neville's running away to Virginia with Edward of Lancaster.

Ah, and only Richard of Gloucester would have an English accent, though it would be faultless House of Lords diction.

There is a career waiting for you in Hollywood! 😂😂
Title: Re: Battle of Barnet: #worldwarroses
Post by: FierceKitty on May 23, 2021, 12:02:29 PM: Quote from: James Morris on May 23, 2021, 07:35:42 AM
There is a career waiting for you in Hollywood! 😂😂

Not sure - I forgot to include Joan of Arc and Robin Hood. No Hollywood script-scribe would be guilty of such an oversight.
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Post by: Atheling on May 23, 2021, 04:46:32 PM: Quote from: FierceKitty on May 23, 2021, 12:02:29 PM
Not sure - I forgot to include Joan of Arc and Robin Hood. No Holywood script-scribe would be guilty of such an oversight.

You're hired! lol
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Post by: TWD on May 25, 2021, 09:25:27 PM: And here are a few pictures from the game

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0V86B14xryQ/YK1N8aqnpcI/AAAAAAAAkMM/vvKf4jWPcioMmkagnuryJ5cLjtPzwuF9QCLcBGAsYHQ/s600/PSX_20210523_144123.jpg)

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BvXrGoO-6f4/YK1N-xjnTJI/AAAAAAAAkNQ/0wTxXeZQTiUUwcCDO0xmSri442AHqwETwCLcBGAsYHQ/s600/PSX_20210523_215342.jpg)

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f46eUMw073Q/YK1N6thxccI/AAAAAAAAkLc/XGTNWAaHwV4-hG9QtKnVTTIm5cwuyIF4gCLcBGAsYHQ/s600/PSX_20210523_141653.jpg)

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aL1-Lgt3Rrk/YK1N6r26O6I/AAAAAAAAkLg/tWL_ZWToPVIRAKOEIsAlJ_S4Kz8MknbPACLcBGAsYHQ/s600/PSX_20210523_141905.jpg)

There are 60 or so more pictures and a few words over on my blog:
https://tomstoysoldiers.blogspot.com/2021/05/battle-of-barnet-world-war-roses.html

Was a great day of gaming, the rules worked well the models looked splendid and much fun was had.
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Post by: TWD on May 26, 2021, 08:03:39 PM: I found some more pictures on my phone
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kjXm___VEWA/YK1u8PmvWaI/AAAAAAAAkPg/CvGegBzkYrw1A6ufqDefTAwuYBCxpCR1wCLcBGAsYHQ/s600/PSX_20210525_222353.jpg)

http://tomstoysoldiers.blogspot.com/2021/05/battle-of-barnet-ii.html
Title: Re: Battle of Barnet: #worldwarroses
Post by: James Morris on May 26, 2021, 09:11:13 PM: Still a bit foggy down south, I see.