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English Knights for Bauge 1421
The English knights for Bauge are completed – sorry that I didn’t have an opportunity to create a posting about my work in progress with these – the Salute deadline is looming closer...
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English Mounted Archers (I)
The battle of Bauge was primarily fought on the English side by the mounted men at arms, led by Thomas duke of Clarence and other knights. The chroniclers tell that the earl of Salisbury followed...
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Battle of Bauge 1421, at Salute 2019.
Apologies for the delay in getting some words and pictures together from the Salute game.So Lewis King and I set up on the Friday evening and spent a very pleasant evening eating and drinking, and...
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Bauge replay at Partizan - grave undertakings
We're going to replay the demo game of Bauge 1421 at the Partizan show in Newark on 19 May.Going to make some slight adjustments to the layout. This is to include more space around the village of...
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Shepherd's Hut (wheeled)
A few months ago I discovered about the existence of medieval shepherd's huts on wheels - a chance encounter on a Pinterest account which I follow.It appears that images of these huts occur with some...
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HYW photo
I've been fiddling with my camera to create some pics of a specific battle - more anon.This is one I edited out to not use - English attack on a French defensive camp - the stream disappearing to...
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French Knights for Patay (I)
There's life in the old blog yet!I recently had the opportunity to join other 'Bodkins' and replay the Battle of Crecy as a demo game at Partizan show. Apart from the joy of gaming and meeting folk...
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French Knights for Patay (II)
So as we are nearing the Christmas season (and for shops in the UK it is already Christmas!) I give you....Five French Sergeants!These are all the riders I can make up from the remaining spures that I...
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French Knights for Patay (III)
Some more progress - Étienne de Vignolles and another kastenbrust.Etienne de Vignolles appears to be the primary leader of the French mounted vanguard at the battle of Patay. In the previous posting,...
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French Knights for Patay (IV)
So I made some progress over the earlier summer months, to add more bases of French knights for a future Patay game.Here are some pics. They are pretty much all Perry plastics from the Agincourt...
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