Northumberland's Battle in 28mm

Off the painting desk today is the second Battle in my fledgling WotR project.  This time, it is Henry Percy's Battle.  Like William Stanley's Battle before it, this force musters in at 52 figures in three lines.  Fifty-two figures is a lot for me to tackle in one tranche.  The 24 archers seem to take forever.  Figures are Perry Miniatures' 28mm plastics. 

With a second Battle fielded, I can actually conduct some one Battle vs one Battle trials of my own with Richard's Battle Commander rules.  A third Battle is in work.  Next up will be Edward IV but other units for other projects will muster out before Edward's troops can be finished up.

Remote gaming continues with great regularity but not all battles have generated their own battle report here.  Some of the recent games without my full accounting are:

Knights of the Sky

OHW WWI

Ancient Sumeria

Fortunately, Graham, has a Battle Report for each of these engagements at Wargaming4grownups.

Speaking of fortune, I scored a number of wargames over the last ten days at a local auction house.  Evidently, a local gamer recently retired and decided to unload his wargame collection.  What?  Who would consider such an action?  My eagle-eyed wife, Nancy, spotted the cache and rushed back home to fetch me.  Well, over several visits as the prices were steadily reduced, I picked up a nice cache of hex-and-counter games to add to my own wargame collection.  Hopefully, mine does not end up in an auction house.  I will report on my loot in another post.     

To round out this update, I am working on a scenario for the continuing AWI battles using Rebels and Patriots as Matt and I fight our way through the war.  Likely up next will be a recreation of a portion of the Battle for Long Island where Grant attacks Alexander (Lord Stirling) along the Gowanus Road.  The Americans will once again be on the defense but, for the first time, the Gowanus Road action will see the Americans outnumbered in open battle.  I envision Long Island battle being divided into three actions.