A few games and a few Normans

 I have been lucky enough to get a few games in recently. First, Pete came up for some games of Saga. His visit prompted me to paint up a few new recruits for my Normans to fill out units. I am now collecting Normans in multiples that would suit units for Blood Eagle, Saga and Lion Rampant Dark Age variant, so 4, 6, 8, or 12's. So with the newly painted figures leading the way Pete proceeded to beat me twice with his Vikings!

With the paint almost still wet, my new commander (William the Conqueror) failed to impress. 

To be fair, Pete was using some new figures too but his new flags and banners proved to be inspirational to his men!

 A few days later I went to Andy's house to try out 'Force on Force', the Osprey modern rules. Whilst not really an era of interest to me I enjoyed the game (set in the Vietnam War) and found the rules to contain some very good game mechanics. No I won't be rushing out to buy a load of helicopters and jungle terrain but I did enjoy the game. I managed to land my US troops and quickly close down quite a few of the enemy 'hotspots' making it difficult for Andy to get his troops deployed, thus I managed to bag a win!

Then Pete invited Steve, John and I over for a large game of 28mm 'To the Strongest'. Pete had devised a Roman Civil War scenario around the battle of Lauron in 76BC.We all contributed figures to the game which looked great. Things did not start too well for John and I, in particular as my Gallic allies failed to get down out of a wooded hill quick enough to be of any help until the second half of the battle. So Pete and Steve won, but we were starting to press them hard towards the end of the game. TTS is a great set of rules for multi-player big battles. John's Romans looked stunning and they are an army I could be tempted by? 

Now we are on the last day of October and the news is full of the possibility of a second lockdown all chances of future games could once again be reduced to zero, so it was good to fit in 3 games in such a short space of time.