Battlefields trust have a very useful website for those visiting the moor. You can stop opposite the monument. The battlefield is not sign posted otherwise. We walked up the path opposite. Unfortunately the track leading to the famous white sike has been blocked by the landowner. However you do get a great view of the largely unspoilt battlefield.
Is this a piece of revisionist history? The overall commander, the Scottish Leslie reduced to a supporting role in Cromwell’s victory?
We walked along Moor Lane with the Royalist deployments on this side of the road to the left and right of the track.
The view across the White Sike where the Earl of Newcastle’s regiment of foot made their famous last stand.
The high ground where the Parliamentarians deployed.
The landowner clearly does not want walkers following the track and visiting the white sike or linking up with the public footpath.
Overall a great place to visit. You get a fascinating view of the parliament position holding the high ground from the royalist side which is very flat in comparison. Also the drainage ditch along the track is deep and wide giving an idea of how the ditch across the Royalist front may have appeared. Clearly a difficult place to cross. It would have broken up any attempt at a cavalry charge where it was deep and wide.
Balin and his kin have entered the Long Dark of Moria. They pour out into the Darrowdelf, the ancient plaza and living quarters of Khazad Dum. Across the chasm lie the mine workings and rising to the Sound of the Drums in the Deep come the Goblins.
This battle will be fought using the MESBG rules and is taken from an old source book Shadow and Flame. It is the second in the campaign. I have substituted the chasm with a lava flow and a roaring icy stream, which meet underneath the bridge in a crashing roaring fall, mixing far in the depths below.
It is 1274 BC. Rameses II of Egypt and Muwatalli II of the Hittite empire are fighting over control of Syria. This is the campaign that led to the famous battle of Kadesh.
Kadesh
In our apocryphal battle the two armies will face up near Kadesh but deployed for battle with equal forces. What if Rameses had been warned of the approach of the Hittites by his scouts and was ready for them?
One of the largest chariot battles in history shall take place at Kadesh near the banks of the Orontes River.
Each army will also have 3 hero counters.
The battle will be fought on a 6×4 table. Maybe my new gridded battle mat will arrive in time?
Edit: My new map arrived from Deep Cut Studios so all I need are an opponent!
Finished some wood elf command figures. I just need to finish the bases. Painting with contrast paints and blue and green GW ink wash. VVV transfer to the flag.
Next I am trying something different. I had a Gundabad orc upgrade pack and thought I had best get round to using it . So I purchased some more orcs and used leadbelcher spray as a base then applied wraith bone primer by hand . Will it work ?
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