The Daemon's Claw

We are running a DBA collaborative War of the Roses period at the club this year. this is an opportunity for people to get some historical gaming experience and maybe we can make a new community of the club members. The idea is that we can play a mix of individual games, smaller scenarios and larger collaborative games. I have been making the Stanleys. They successfully navigated the changing politics of Lancstrian and Yorkist kings by being too important to kill and just loyal enough. They came out of the wars having done very well. The only person who did better was Henry Tudor. I have my models mostly painted and now I need to make the bases. Hopefully everyone will be able to bring their forces down to the club for the AGM so we can see who is into the period and how the armies are going. Maybe we can have some individual games and then a collaborative game in March.

To scratch a historical itch and create a new wargaming group within the club, Pete and I have decided to get into War of the Roses. We will be doing 28mm DBA armies. This is great because you get to paint a small army made out of a box of Perry's plastic infantry and a cannon. We can then make the larger battles using the DBA big battle rules and generate the appropriate level of paranoia. I think armies will form much like MMP governments, either as necessary evils or an unhappy marriage of the unwilling. So far we have been planning this for a week and have 4 players. Pete will be the vile and treacherous Warwicks. No he is not allowed to paint them green and purple like all his other armies. Apparently a Tailby was found down a coal mine with the Lancastrian army payroll after the battle of Towton. I have no idea if I am related to this person but it makes for a great story. More updates with models shortly.