{"id":6977,"date":"2022-10-29T11:00:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T10:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/?p=6977"},"modified":"2022-10-29T10:54:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T09:54:22","slug":"society-meeting-october-22nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2022\/10\/29\/society-meeting-october-22nd\/","title":{"rendered":"Society Meeting, October 22nd"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s been a while since we posted any pictures of society meetings, but here are some from our latest meeting, which had a good turn out with five games in progress and around 20 members present.<\/em><\/p>\n

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First up we have a 2mm Ancients game using Strength and Honour rules, Republican Romans vs Germans.<\/p>\n

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Marcomanni & Suebi Warbands clash with the Auxilia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Same clash, different angle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Close up of the Suebi Warband<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Line of battle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our second game was a clash between a 100 Year’s War English army and some Ottoman Turks, this time in 6mm using Field of Glory rules<\/p>\n

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Archers flanking Men at Arms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Close up of Archers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Archers holding the hill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cavalry charge the Men at Arms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Men at arms punch a hole through the line of Archers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Slightly later historically we turn to the War of the Roses, and a game based on the Battle of Wakefield, this time in 15mm using Sword and Spear rules.<\/p>\n

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Battle of Wakefield, starting positions. Jeremey feeling somewhat surrounded.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the background you can see Stephen’s representation of Sandal Castle, you can see an article on its construction here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Close up of the Yorkist right flank.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lancastrian Left Flanking force<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Yorkist Archers, the small dice show the remaining strength<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Uneven archery duel, all units started at strength 3.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our fourth game, chronologically, takes us to the East End of London, where things go bump in the night. A Victorian Gothic Horror game using “A Fist Full of Lead” rules in 28mm.<\/p>\n

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Just another day in the East End<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A bit of a barney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Hello, hello, hello, what’s going on here aaarghh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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It’s not even safe indoors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A Hansom Cab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Police raid a house of ill repute<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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They’s big n hairy & I be afraid of ’em<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And finally, we go to Vietnam, with a 1:600 scale Air game using Thud Ridge rules.\u00a0 Only a couple of photos of this game unfortunately.<\/p>\n

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SAM-2 site protecting a vital bridge as a Skyhawk attacks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Close up of the Skyhawk, pursued by MiG-15s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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It’s been a while since we posted any pictures of society meetings, but here are some from our latest meeting, which had a good turn out with five games in progress and around 20 members present. First up we have a 2mm Ancients game using Strength and Honour rules, Republican Romans vs Germans. Our second … Continue reading “Society Meeting, October 22nd”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"A photo round up of the last Society Meeting on October 22nd","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[126,68,69,113,24,124,38,20,35,75,111,62,125,123,46,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1600-wargaming","category-15mm-wargaming","category-28mm-wargaming","category-2mm-wargaming","category-6mm-wargaming","category-a-fistful-of-lead","category-aerial-wargaming","category-ancients","category-field-of-glory","category-hundred-years-war","category-strength-honour","category-sword-spear","category-thud-ridge","category-victorian-horror","category-vietnam","category-wars-of-the-roses"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20221022_105903-scaled-e1667033618944.jpg?fit=800%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9A5LG-1Ox","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6979,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6977\/revisions\/6979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}