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The first ever Southern League ADLG event to take place in Southend on Sea took plce recently, and was appositely themed around the year of the Battle of Benfleet, in which the Anglo Saxons kicked the Vikings out of Essex - at least temporarily - and so I decided this was an omen worth embracing by taking an Anglo-Saxon army myself.

The army was made up of a load of 15mm Anglo Saxons/Vikings/generic Dark Age geezers that I'd rebased during lockdown, and a 3-game event where they would be thematically appropriate was ideal, especially as they were not likely to be all that good.



The event being at Southend also gave me an opportunity to inflict multiple references to both Billy Bragg and Danny Dyer on an unsuspecting wargames population and viewership - a gift that keeps on giving throughout the 3 videos in this competition report.



Having decided that a night out in Southend on Sea was unmissable, there is also some local tourism involved in the reports - and of course, any thanks are due to to the Southend Wargames Club for hosting us in their fabulous games bunker too!



(You'll also no doubt be pleased to know that the Essex branch of the McHugh Carpet Empire also get a welcome plug).

Enjoy the videos at https://www.madaxeman.com/reports/Southend_2024.php

https://www.newsweek.com/key-ancient-roman-town-survived-longer-thought-archaeologists-1900119

Interesting

You did that on porpoise

Really nicely laid out report Dave

And currently boiling on holiday down in Cornwall

Due to another rift in the time-space continuum, my two Armenian kings finally had the opportunity to face each other. Tigranes the Lesser was supported by his Parthian patrons, whilst Artaxias had his Persian overlords to assist.

Short report of the battle below. Longer report (split into two parts) available on my website for those (especially in the UK) expecting a wet bank holiday weekend.

The oddity is that if the house burned because of hostile activity, they were arguably pretty incompetent or careless attackers if they left a horse and five sheep/goats to die rather than looting valuable livestock.

It's all codswallop, why bother?

I could carp on about it some more

Nice bit of archaeological science that.  What I did like was the authors don't speculate on why the building burned down or who might have been responsible.  I presume a press release did, however, and that got the CNN coverage.

Quote from: Denis Grey on May 21, 2024, 07:49:25 AM

Quote from: Justin Swanton on May 21, 2024, 06:13:28 AM....fish.

Quote from: Imperial Dave on May 21, 2024, 06:39:38 AMHalibut

I shall slap the pair of you.

Not your plaice.