Yes, after a somewhat lengthy delay the 5 battle reports from the L'Art de la Guerre competition at Warfare 2024 have finally made it to these pages, allowing you to see the Swiss army in all its glory!
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In a series of 5 consecutive High Medieval battles the Gnome of Zurich leads his cheese-eating, cowbell-donging merry band of men with (long pointy) sticks into action against the Scottish Schiltrons, the Reconquering Medieval Spanish, the pecunious mercenary Free Companies, the even more monetarily-focused Condottieri, and finally the highly efficient Medieval Germans.
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In each battle the highly complex and over-engineered Swiss plan unfolds in full Alpine Cinemascope, accompanied by ferocious yodelling and a faint whiff of burnt fondue.
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All battles come complete with speech bubbles, bizarre captions, and a series of FACTS to educate you about the lesser-known aspects of the Swiss Pikemen of the Medieval era - and Full Metal Medieval Hannibal commentary as well !
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Pull up a Toblerone, log out of your secret bank account and take aim at the apple-on-the-head delights of these 5 full Madaxeman battle reports featuring a 15mm Medieval Swiss army in all its technicolour glory!
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The reports are online at https://www.madaxeman.com/reports/Warfare_2024_1.php
Awesome ;D
That was fun, thanks.
I'm not sure why you referred to the Scots as Belgian, or Flem, a few times in report 1, but I presume it's an in-joke I didn't get.
Quote from: Duncan Head on January 24, 2025, 02:40:44 PMThat was fun, thanks.
I'm not sure why you referred to the Scots as Belgian, or Flem, a few times in report 1, but I presume it's an in-joke I didn't get.
Its actually that I misremembered them as being a Low Countries army when I first drafted the reports (both they and the Scots have loads of poor quality pikemen) - I thought I'd edited all the refrences to Flemish out and replaced them with Scots, but maybe I missed a few... will check again!
Easily done :)