Continuing on with our El Cid Campaign and gradually introducing ideas from the WAB Version 1/1.5 El Cid Supplement in bit by bit to add more flavour as the WAB V.2 AoA lists do lack that extra zing the older supplements added to the game!
Showing posts with label El Cid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label El Cid. Show all posts
Sunday, 2 February 2025
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Monday, 13 January 2025
El Cid WAB Game
Just a few pictures taken from our rather excellent rough 4000 pointer game of WAB based on the El Cid lists in Armies of Antiquity V.2. I found myself (very!) lost in the action within the game and forgot to keep taking photo's which kind of ruined this AAR!
The game very much revolved around the cavalry action taking place on the Christian Spanish (my good self and Neil) Right Flank and the Almoravid Left Flank (Jim and Graeme). We managed to route a large unit of Almoravid Jinettes allowing for a 180 degree turn and a rear flank charge as the Christian Caballeros Hidalgos went in frontally. alas, in order to avoid being charged themselves by a Mercenary unit of the same class we chose to charge the Caballeros Hidalgos in who promptly lost by one, were subject to First Charge and auto-broken. What happened next was hilarious- or tragic- depending on your perspective! Every unit we had, within 12" panicked and routed as well! This effectively ended the game, though we did play a couple more turns before we ended the game.
We had a good chat post game and have decided to play an El Cid campaign largely based off the WAB V.1/1.5 El Cid Campaign in the back of the El Cid supplement. We're going to be introducing the African Drummers and Cantador rules which should help add a the wee bit of period flavour that seems to be missing from the AoA V.2 army lists.
Here's the few pics I managed to take- more next week I promise! (All are "clickable")
Adios!
Thursday, 23 April 2020
Reconquista; Almoravid Ghuzz Horse Archers
It's been a month or so since my last post; the spread of the coronavirus, the lock down and the need for me to self isolate completely for medical reasons have all played their part as have the worry about my parents who usually rely on me for day to day help.
I'm sure we all have our own anxieties about the outbreak and ways of dealing with it. I have to say, I have not been coping so well of late. That is, until I turned my hand to the brush again that some semblance of calm was achieved.
I have just finished basing these Ghuzz Horse Archers. As the (now cancelled) date for Partizan began to get closer and the sheer number of horses I needed to paint I decided to lower the overall quality and go for the speed painted option for the horse flesh with both what was left of the Islamic and Christian armies for the display game. Thus, the horses here have been painted rapidly, the horse archers less so but they were hurried along to some extent too. It is somewhat ironic that i now have all the time in the world to complete these armies!
The "Ghuzz" Horse Archers in Spain came from the Oghuz, a Western Turkic tribe. By the tenth Century Byzantine sources were calling them Muslim Turkmens as distinct from Shamanistic or Bhuddist sects. They are recorded as being present as well paid mercenaries in Almohad armies but not in Almoravid forces. I have basically extrapolated from the Almohad sources and made the decision to include them at an earlier date in the Almoravid force. They could also be reasonably pressed into any 11th Century Muslim army of the Crusades if I ever feel the urge.
I'm sure we all have our own anxieties about the outbreak and ways of dealing with it. I have to say, I have not been coping so well of late. That is, until I turned my hand to the brush again that some semblance of calm was achieved.
I have just finished basing these Ghuzz Horse Archers. As the (now cancelled) date for Partizan began to get closer and the sheer number of horses I needed to paint I decided to lower the overall quality and go for the speed painted option for the horse flesh with both what was left of the Islamic and Christian armies for the display game. Thus, the horses here have been painted rapidly, the horse archers less so but they were hurried along to some extent too. It is somewhat ironic that i now have all the time in the world to complete these armies!
The "Ghuzz" Horse Archers in Spain came from the Oghuz, a Western Turkic tribe. By the tenth Century Byzantine sources were calling them Muslim Turkmens as distinct from Shamanistic or Bhuddist sects. They are recorded as being present as well paid mercenaries in Almohad armies but not in Almoravid forces. I have basically extrapolated from the Almohad sources and made the decision to include them at an earlier date in the Almoravid force. They could also be reasonably pressed into any 11th Century Muslim army of the Crusades if I ever feel the urge.
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