Norse versus Anglo-Danes Midgard Game

 

Armies deployed from the Anglo-Danes' side

Opposite end

Anglo-Dane left flank and centre

Anglo-Dane right flank and centre

Norse left flank and centre

Norse right flank and centre

Armies close, skirmishers shoot

Last Thursday afternoon Garry came over and we played a Norse versus Anglo-Danes Midgard game out in the shed. We diced for sides and Garry commanded the Anglo-Danes defenders and I commanded the Norse attackers. The Anglo-Dane skirmishers were on target early on but the Norse were able to get in the first charge with a bonus Get In! movement activation. In the Midgard rules a charge or winning marker allows that side to reroll any ones for each round of combat which can prove very handy at times. 

Single combats between heroes are fought first and are an important way of gaining or losing reputation tokens in the game. The Norse lost three heroes in single combat but were winning the early melee combats. In the end it proved to be a very hard fought game with the Anglo-Danes eventually winning on their right flank while the Norse won on the left. Both armies were exhausted and fought to a standstill, with two reputation tokens each remaining, so we called it a draw.

Anglo-Dane archers and slingers are on target

Norse straighten their line and Anglo-Danes hold

Norse charge with a bonus
Get In! movement action

Norse are winning the melee combats but
have lost three heroes in single combat!

Anglo-Danes win on their right flank
but the Norse win on the left

The game ends in a hard fought draw

Last weekend I drove up to the Blue Mountains to visit friends, mountain bike and attend the Blue Mountains Music Festival at Katoomba on the Saturday afternoon. Below are a few pics of some of the mountain bike rides we did. The BMMF music is a roots, blues and folk music festival which has been running for about thirty years but which I've never been to before. The highlight for me was seeing the eighteen year old Irish country blues guitarist and singer Muireann Bradley, perform with brilliant covers of songs by Memphis Minnie, Mississippi John Hurt, Elizabeth Cotten, Reverend Gary Davis, Blind Blake and Sam McGee. I've been a massive country blues fan since I was seventeen and used to go to a lot of the blues, jazz and folk gigs and festivals around the traps. She recorded her first album when she was seventeen and learnt guitar from her father since the age of nine. Here's a link to her website and a video performance of When the Levee Breaks:

 https://www.muireannbradley.ie

https://www.muireannbradley.ie/video/

Rydal showground

Rydal single tracks

View of Mt Banks from my friends' house

Blackheath single tracks

Start of the Oaks single tracks on the
Wentworth Falls to Glenbrook ride