Fulford Gate 1066.

Spyros expressed an interest in the Vikings sitting on my shelf.
After a brief discussion, we decided to get them on the table to fight my Anglo-Danes ....and redo Fulford Gate - the first of the three epic battles fought in 1066. We played it at the Company of Dice club meet here in Sydney.

Spyros was Morcar and Edwin and I was Harald Hardrada.

The two Anglo-Danish earls raced to take up a position on a stream bank and made it just in time before Hardrada's Vikings got there.

End of Turn 2

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View from the Viking lines- Edwin's Mercians, skirmishers thrown out as the main line races to the stream bank- a defensible position. 

My new Vikings take the field...and lose...but my old Romans win.

 A couple of games from the last couple of months......

Ross was aware that I had finished my Vikings. As he has Byzantines, Normans and Muslim forces that are all from the same period- I took my army off to his place and found an army waiting for them!

What did I find? A Hamdanid Arab force - awaiting my plundering and rampaging Vikings.

Both from the same time period - mid 10th Century....but very different in composition!

My Vikings. Anchoring my left flank on some low hills.

Elamites, Vikings and Austrians.......what?

 The Elamites have been arriving, and having had some time on my hands recently, I finished my Vikings. I am powering through the aforementioned Elamites and and about 60% of the way through the infantry for my WAS/SYW Austrians.

I feel I have achieved something!   I even had time to work on some 18mm Crimean War figures.

Viking Berserkers

Viking Command Stands

VIKINGS!!

 Well, it had to happen. 

I have Normans.
Ross has Normans.
I have Anglo-Danes.

And someone keeps whispering "1066" in my ear. I swatted him away, but he tried the other ear. 
Knock it off Paul!!

Oh well, it was inevitable:
So I ordered some...and then some more..and some more....it's easy to do ...it's just a few clicks on my computer...and some numbers change in my bank account.

So simple!!