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Historian in Harness @historianinharness.bsky.social · 9h

At Partizan tomorrow, alongside the main game, I've got a little 10-minute tactical conundrum for those of you who've seen Écorcheurs! already.

A small retinue of men-at-arms & archers caught on the edge of a farm by a lance of French horsemen... what will happen?

#wargaming #medievalwargaming

28mm Gripping Beast Hundred Years War knights charge past a stream.

A Gripping Beast 28mm knight comes to blows with some French spears.

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Historian in Harness @historianinharness.bsky.social · 22h

So sorry.

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Historian in Harness @historianinharness.bsky.social · 2d

A great bunch of people, with their hearts in the right place.

Kudos.

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Historian in Harness @historianinharness.bsky.social · 5d

Watching for a friend... 😁

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Historian in Harness @historianinharness.bsky.social · 7d

and there are many, many more...

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Historian in Harness @historianinharness.bsky.social · 7d

+ Looking eastward to the Crusades, using Jean de Joinville's account of the Egyptian crusade of Louis IX as inspiration.

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Historian in Harness @historianinharness.bsky.social · 7d

+ An full expansion to cover the Wars of the Roses, with sceanriosnsuch as Nibley Green, St Michael's Mount, Caister Castle, and Richard's charge at Bosworth, and a mini-campaibn for street fighting at the first battle of St Albans.

Three 28mm Wars of the Roses men-at-arms.

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Historian in Harness @historianinharness.bsky.social · 7d

+ A mini-campaign centring on Bertrand du Guesclin's guerrilla war in Brittany in 1356/7.

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Historian in Harness @historianinharness.bsky.social · 7d

I'm already planning a series of scenarios and mini-campaigns.

+ Something for Christmas based on the pantomime hero Robin Hood, or the darker Christmas tale of Gawain and the Green Knight...

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Historian in Harness @historianinharness.bsky.social · 7d

With just a few hours to go, Écorcheurs! has been backed by over 400 people!

I am so chuffed at the faith people have put in my project to give them a game they'll enjoy!

So, what's next?

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Historian in Harness @historianinharness.bsky.social · 11d

Looks brilliant. What are you using as the baseboard?

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Historian in Harness @historianinharness.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks for the plug! Not sure I like the idea of Lord S and Gripping Beast as my 'sugar daddies' though! 🤣😳😂

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Historian in Harness @historianinharness.bsky.social · 14d

You've got to get aesthetics right, haven't you, with these periods.

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Historian in Harness @historianinharness.bsky.social · 14d

36-man foot, and 24-man cavalry regiments.

Three colours to a regiment.

Flounce coats and full-bottomed perukes.

All the grandeur, arrogance, and elegance of those who bask in the rays of the Sun King, trying not to get burned.

How could it not be splendid? 😁

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Historian in Harness @historianinharness.bsky.social · 14d

36-figure infantry, and 24-man cavalry, regiments.

Three colours per regiment.

Flouncy coats and full-bottomed perukes.

All the elegance and grandeur of those baskingin the glorious rays of the Sun King, trying not to get burnt.

How could it not be splendid?

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Historian in Harness @historianinharness.bsky.social · 14d

Had some friends over the other day, put up the 6'x8'table in the bottom barn, and got the big battalions out again.

It was glorious.

#Imagi-nation #wargaming

28mm Eighteenth century lancers in pink coats

Two regiments of 28mm late seventeenth century foot.

28mm imagi-nation the army of the Grand-Admiral Tumbonas de Playas, my imagi-nation force.

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Historian in Harness @historianinharness.bsky.social · 16d

Glorious!

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Historian in Harness @historianinharness.bsky.social · 16d

.. to be fair that joke is as old as some of the sources I read.

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Historian in Harness @historianinharness.bsky.social · 16d

I have my moments...

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Historian in Harness @historianinharness.bsky.social · 16d

Only if he's in a hurry to finish his round...

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Historian in Harness @historianinharness.bsky.social · 16d

We hit 300 backers yesterday. So grateful to you all.

For those of you that haven't, there's still time!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/gri...

#ecorcheurs #medievalwargaming #wargaming

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Historian in Harness @historianinharness.bsky.social · 16d

Aren't drones supposed to deliver themselves...?

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Historian in Harness @historianinharness.bsky.social · 20d

🤣😂

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Historian in Harness @historianinharness.bsky.social · 20d

With the success of the Écorcheurs! Kickstarter (what do you mean you haven't pledged yet? www.kickstarter.com/projects/gri... - go, on. I'll wait.) I'm definitely cracking on with my 1st St Albans campaign expansion. @sabotag3d.bsky.social printed this gorgeous clock tower, a centrepiece.

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Historian in Harness @historianinharness.bsky.social · 21d

They are absolutely compatible with Antediluvian, and both ranges fit nicely, size-wise, with Front Rank.

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