A large Crusade invasion

[nevermore]

The First Crusade (1096–1099) was a military expedition by Roman Catholic Europe to regain the Holy Lands taken in the Muslim conquests of the Levant (632–661), ultimately resulting in the recapture of Jerusalem in 1099. It was launched on 27 November 1095 by Pope Urban II with the primary goal of responding to an appeal from Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, who requested that western volunteers come to his aid and help to repel the invading Seljuq Turks from Anatolia. An additional goal soon became the principal objective—the Christian reconquest of the sacred city of Jerusalem and the Holy Land and the freeing of the Eastern Christians from Islamic rule.

The game was arranged with 14 players, two which controlled the game with help with the objectives and questions on the rules.The game was 28mm around 1000 figures and 26 wagons
this was the first part of the invasion, next week i will post up the 2nd game which was played in
the afternoon with the Christians attacking the walls of Jerusalem with tons of seige equipment as
it was 22 foot in lenght, great game and a great laugh, everybody was in high spirits and roll on
for October for another large game.

More photos on the main website 92 photos of the first game enjoy.























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[Engel]

Thanks for sharing.
I will take a closer look when I get home from work but by the first glance this looks like a nice game. Great!

[Steve F]

Looks gorgeous.

[Engel]

A realy impressive battle. What rules did you use ?

[Lowtardog]

A beautiful looking game

[nevermore]

A realy impressive battle. What rules did you use ?

Saga rules but touched up abit to create it into a large game, we got rid of the board and it went really well

[War In 15MM]

Beautiful! Love the pictures.  Thanks for posting.  Richard

[valleyboy]

A superb set up
Who makes the templars?

(Edit I originally put hospitaliers) stupid me

[Mad Doc Morris]

As others said: Impressive. 
Love the Templars in particular – though they were actually a bit late to the First Crusade.

[nevermore]

Black tree Design figures i think, i just painted them for other members they brought the stuff, pretty sure a few 0ld Glory are in there as well