Defend the castle!

 For YEARS (honestly, decades) I've had the aspiration to do a castle fight. I have a campaign I downloaded off the internet of a desperate defense of a fortified town/village near Sylvania but a group of mercenaries (why yes, it does use Mordheim). One day it may see the light of day. 

 

 

 

With my list of 'things wot I need' I stumbled across some cool stl's early in my printer ownership and progressively printed a bunch. It sat unpainted for much time. Then I swapped some painting with local gamer Garret. He usually zenithal highlights and inks with a home mix to get a satisfying stone look that I dig. 

 

 

 

The impetuous to finally finish the stuff  occurred with the plan for enfilade 2025. I knew I wasn't going to make it for a variety of reasons (childcare, car that can't survive freeway speeds, geopolitical tensions, etc). But I would be able to contribute to the success of the game for my gamer friends who go yearly (and come up to Canada each summer for a game). Seth, conveniently, was up in Vancouver for rugby the same weekend I went to Trumpeter Salute at the Bonsor club and I managed to pass off a castle to him to borrow. Trotting it over as a foot passenger on a ferry was the most challenging aspect of the process. 

 

 

York 867 was chosen to run a variant of '6's are bad'. That is.....roughly the name of the rule set. It's been re-skinned a number of times, but it's a great ruleset for people who feel like they roll an abnormal number of low dice. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My hazy understanding of the battle is that that Saxons were away from York dealing with problems (civil war ish problems). Vikings sacked York. The Saxons decided to go free it, or get their digs in for the run down Vikings. Or something. The Vikings managed to turn it into an ambush of sorts. The Saxons need to get out of York alive. 

 

 

Ron (of 3D-DYZN) ripped up almost all of the buildings. I believe he sells them if they look of interest to you. (plugging for a friend). The STLs are  3dlayeredscenary 'easefare'. The breached walls were a hack job I managed myself. I can't really remember where I found the rubble, but I did some 'linear slices' of a wall and incorporated the breach. 

 

The final shots are some pictures of some test games and a random middle earth fantasy game session using my walls that were sent to me. They look so good!