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Author Topic: Good rules for Hastings / Stamford bridge?  (Read 2788 times)

Offline Pan Marek

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Re: Good rules for Hastings / Stamford bridge?
« Reply #15 on: August 03, 2022, 04:07:41 PM »
Gentlemen, I stand corrected.  I may just need to search out the WAB Shieldwall Supplement!

Offline Bellerophon

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Re: Good rules for Hastings / Stamford bridge?
« Reply #16 on: August 03, 2022, 09:05:11 PM »
Thanks for all the suggestions and that beautiful set of pics!

Offline pallard

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Re: Good rules for Hastings / Stamford bridge?
« Reply #17 on: August 03, 2022, 09:35:09 PM »
Hi
May I suggest Comitatus?
The 6mm would stand well on the units bases needed for the rules. And this is a great dark ages set.

Offline SteveBurt

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Re: Good rules for Hastings / Stamford bridge?
« Reply #18 on: August 04, 2022, 09:15:11 PM »
We've played both these battles pretty successfully using Saga (obviously heavily bath-tubbed), but in 28mm, not 6mm.
Surprisingly historical results; both were 2 v 2 battles with 2 x 5 point warbands per side.
Not recommended for 6mm, but it worked very well

Offline Melnibonean

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Re: Good rules for Hastings / Stamford bridge?
« Reply #19 on: August 23, 2022, 08:43:33 AM »
We played the 1066 battles in 2016 - 950th anniversary (and we'll all be too old for the 1000 year anniversary). We used Hail Caesar and included mixed units of thegns and fyrd but kept the huscarls to a single, large body guard unit.
Below is a link to my blog. It's the place where I write uninteresting things about little toy soldiers. I do this because I refuse to grow up and behave like an adult.

http://this28mmlife.blogspot.com.au/

Offline Maniac

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Re: Good rules for Hastings / Stamford bridge?
« Reply #20 on: August 24, 2022, 09:18:10 PM »
We've played both these battles pretty successfully using Saga (obviously heavily bath-tubbed), but in 28mm, not 6mm.
Surprisingly historical results; both were 2 v 2 battles with 2 x 5 point warbands per side.
Not recommended for 6mm, but it worked very well

I've contemplated using Saga with small scale figures, using multi figures per base (my group has ton's of Warmaster armies, and using a single 40x20 base of 10mm figures for a single 28mm figure, meaning 8 bases of 10mm figures, 10-12 figures per base, for a unit of warriors).  In effect each model in saga becomes part of a unit of men. 

I think it would work out well enough, and would give a completely different feel to the game.
On time, on target, or the next one's free

 

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