Tuesday 19 April 2011

The Rather Large Award-Winning Towton Project

The team took the Towton game to Salute last weekend. I could not make it because my friend had chosen to get married that day but it seems to have been a successful day even without my micro-management, because they came away with the Most Impressive Troops trophy. Nice. There's more about the show, including more photos over on the Towton project blog but here's a couple of photos just for the Ooh Shiny Complex followers. Click the images for larger versions.

0900 on a snowy Palm Sunday in 1461. Shivering, the troops line up as snow begins to fall:


As they realise that their arrows are not reaching the Yorkist lines, the Lancastrians begin their advance across Towton Dale:


Norfolk falls like a slightly asthmatic lion on the Lancastrian flank. The Lancastrian rout begins.

5 comments:

  1. Nice! - and congratulations on the prize - richly deserved.

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  2. It was a very well done and good looking game, congratulations on the award.

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  3. Thanks, chaps. It is good to know that our efforts are appreciated. The question remains about how to top this for next year though.

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  4. This layout was stunning! I was only 2 tables further up from the first shot with my Gruntz participation game. I was very impressed by the light covering of snow on this board, modellers will often go for a total white board to represent snow and I don't think it works where as this powder snow really made it stand out.

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  5. Thank you, inrepose. I have seen photos of your Gruntz game and am impressed with that. Wish we had such good 15mm terrain for our sci fi games!

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