Dear Friends,
I'm finaly at home again.
First of all I have to say a big Thank You to Adrian, Barry and Bob who organized this great weekend. To meet so many new Friends and old Friends was quite enjoyable.
Here is a collection of Generals, Umpirers/Empires
, a 'El Presidente' and King 'Bill' William:
From the left Jim, Collin, Bob, Andy, Bill P.,
Gerry, Bob from the USA, Adrian and Bill.
The comments done by Bill and Andy about the cards I' m obliged to second. In my opinion - as much fun it was - the use of the card's we received AND the events the cards should/did trigger was quite to much.
One thing I saw quite often on this Weekend was when a card was used to make an Enemy unit "out of Ammo" the 'Receiver' of the Card simply refused to do as the card tells him. So how would it be to rephrase one or two of those 'Out of Balls'-Cards with the addition of the mandatory words "you MUST" go back and pick up Ammo?
While I know that the stack of Cards Barry created are quite useable in a time like this with "Babies wore Red" in mind they are not or only partial suitable/useable for the Nations with professional Armies.
Ok, let's go back tothe pictures of the Battle, made by his Royal Highness James II. and declared Winner of the Battle
My thanks going to my Commanders! Without them we wouldn' have won this glorious Victory!
The Comanders of the Left Flank
Grand Marshal of the Houshold Sir Andy and His Grace, Grand Marshal of the Stables, Sir Gerry who stemmed the Tide quite well, twice
To my able commanders of the Center Lord Matt who bound his men to trees and clawed himself in the ground not giving way, to Sir Allan, Commander of the Guard and strong defender of the Center, with some smashing results I must say.
To Sir Marcel and his cracking cavalry attacks under his subordinate (Jeb) Stuart and my good Comte de Kiran, who stood firm against the onslaught of those infamous Danes.
And at last myself, James II(who trowed a 6 for an inspiring Leadership) and, by God's grace, King of England.
Here is a view over the Battlefield and some of the Players/ Umpires
Adrian, Paul, Bob and Collin having a chat about who many Leaders Collin will need for his troops
Inspired Danish troops passing a priest...whatever he said they ignored him
Kiran and Andy
Jim Wallace and Bob(USA)
Adam(Hayes) and Bill 'El Presidente'
Peter and Collin
My good Friend Bob
and finaly some impression of the last day of William's Reign
Sorry for the size of this message but I' m still with my mind in Derby
Thanks for all!
Günter