Look on the bright side viking Harold, you have won 6 ft. of English soil, or maybe a little more since you are taller than most men. This makes me want to listen to Wulf the Saxon by G. A. Henty again

When you now have the urge to cave into buying all those Saxon and viking minis you have been keeping in your cart 😤

@MrMegamike2k

Жыл бұрын

Wife "Why do you need a 3d resin printer?" Me watching this video on loop, "Yes."

@stefancarter1

Жыл бұрын

I literally have a Viking and Saxon army sat in my Baccus cart 😂

@stuartbaxter-potter8363

Жыл бұрын

@@MrMegamike2k Big same. I was going to make late Republican Romans as my first army once I get a printer but now I think I might just do Ravenfeast

@MrMegamike2k

Жыл бұрын

@@stuartbaxter-potter8363 I've been using old b4me Rohan troops but really want to get a bit more historically accurate.

Sad to me that there are almost 6,000 views and only 600 likes. It only takes a second to hit the like button and I know it helps the channel make these videos for us. Just hit the darn like button……..

Love that One Ring dice bowl!

“Snitches get stitches!” I laughed out loud. Mostly at Tony snickering at his own joke. Excellent campaign yet again.

I love these wargames and Im super excited for season 3 but are you planing more naval wargames? I always love those!

@LittleWarsTV

Жыл бұрын

Oh yes! THREE excellent naval battles coming from different eras of history!

@stuartbaxter-potter8363

Жыл бұрын

*[Crosses fingers for Ecnomus]*

@HyperK7

Жыл бұрын

Samar?????

@Wilsontripplets

Жыл бұрын

@@LittleWarsTV battle of red cliffs from bronze age China perhaps?

Bonus points for the St Steven!

Love the “let’s go clubbing” T shirt Josh.😁 Great games guys! All the best!😉

Another great episode. Takeaway line has to be: “You’re dead, why are you talking?”

Fantastic, the 6mm figures look beautiful - great brushwork with bright colours. Battleboards equally striking. It shows how much can be accomplished in a small play area.

@FelixstoweFoamForge

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. For any large scale game, 6mm is my go-to. Or for REALLY big engagements, why not go 2mm? I mean, Waterloo with every single historical battalion present on a 4 by 3 table? Looks amazing.

Really enjoyed this two part opener to Season 4. Well done all. The really interesting question (which you carefully didn’t reveal today) is ‘how badly was Harold’s army damaged by his victory at Stamford Bridge?’ All will be revealed next time I’m sure…

@LittleWarsTV

Жыл бұрын

Indeed it will! Harold’s reckless attack definitely has some consequences for the final chapter….

@andreleclerc7231

11 ай бұрын

Had Josh won, would his army be the one that would have played the hastings battle?

Hey Tony, nice depiction of Harold. I'll "keep an eye out" for more videos. ☺

@LittleWarsTV

Жыл бұрын

Hah! Nice, Walt. Very nicely done.

This was fun, wouldn´t mind Harold winning the final now.

This holiday week I am thankful for LWTV’s new season dropping, and for pie

two in a row...stupendous!1

I like this Prof DeVries guy. Something tells me he trusts the Sagas just right. Not too much and not too little

@LittleWarsTV

Жыл бұрын

Professor DeVries was an awesome interview. Tons of energy, knowledge, and very well spoken.

2 videos in 1 day? Wowee!

I am very happy to see that R is still being expanded. It was the first battle game I played and I return to it often.

Another outstanding video! The Raven Banner has fallen, and now the march south begins! Thank you again, Little Wars TV!

Thank you. Living in El Paso which is the black hole of wargaming, watching Little Wars is the only wargaming I get.

@The1JHorton

Жыл бұрын

If you'd like to play online with a large international community, look up the International Kriegsspiel Society.

@joshwenn989

Жыл бұрын

Tabletop simulator might be a good idea to play online, too

@The1JHorton

Жыл бұрын

@@joshwenn989 Agreed, that's what IKS uses to play.

On a roll thanks guys.

I love Hastings! I am so excited!

Love this. I'm building all the forces for the 1066 battles atm in 28mm (1 mini app. representing 20 men IRL)

That's just great. I haven't even finished my Greek successor and republic Roman armies and now I'm fantasising about Saxon, Norman and Viking armies. All kidding aside @littlewarstv, I love this new scenario. If you are taking suggestions for scenarios, have you ever considered a less taught about historical event such as the Raid on the Medway? Or other battles of the Anglo-Dutch wars? The British might not like to be reminded of the Anglo-Dutch wars, but the British defeat did lead to them to invest in their navy and becoming the eventual ruler of the seas and with it the world's foremost superpower.

Never thought of Ravenfeast in 6mm.. it's a great idea.

Fantastic as always. And great to see the UK visit content now coming through in episodes. Thank you once again for the time and commitment you put in to your channel. I love it.

Aaaaa I love both these games! So excited for more little wars

Fantastic looking board and game. Love the 6mm.

So good, I eagerly wait the next one.

Tony the film industry has a lot to answer for!

Great video about the backround and great games.

I'd love to see a video of y'all making these game-boards

Love the Grateful Dead reference! Great game; great series! Looking forward to Hastings.

Great work. Love the linked battles and I'm fascinated by 6 mm figures. I look forward to Hastings.

Really great campaign! Loving it!

Hail the kings! Can´t wait to see the match against Edward, the lucky bastard. 😆

What a great game guys!!! Looking forward to playing Ravensfeast in 6mm!

It was wonderful to watch. Looking forward to the battle of Hasting! I have been looking into getting into 6mm and this supplement is the obvious way to go. Compact but still very immersive. Not sure whenever I am going Viking Age, Arthurian Britain or the Loon War. Maybe even the Genpei war now that I think of it.

There are so many battles and skirmishes i would rerun with this system. the campaigns of Cnut would be loads of fun.

Love you guys, would you maybe do more Naval stuff? Plenty of cool choices too, such as Russo-Japanese war.

@LittleWarsTV

Жыл бұрын

We are planning on multiple naval games

Great stuff, another cracking game 👍🏻

This battle was a great as always, interesting to see how stout of defenders the Dane were even with the heavy disadvantage (of course slightly offset by the "Bridge super berserker"). I actually found a battle you guys might want to delve into, if not for war game purpose just an interesting context of the second world War concerning Polish troops, this takes place in 1944 around the end of the Falaise pocket. A II corps polish tank unit and some light infantry hold a hilltop referenced to as "The Mace" which lay between both German escape routes between Trun and Chambois, and defend while being undersupplied and behind enemy lines. My source for this battle is a book titled Six armies in Normandy by John Keegan, Chapter 7 in a segment titled "The Mace"

@LittleWarsTV

Жыл бұрын

That sounds like a very cool battle indeed!

Nice game and a intersting time to play in!

Very nice battle. I'm happy that the Sachsen won even without Kaffee. I love the terrain. Your scenario is excellent.

I love the helmets, great touch

In 1054 King Edward sent Ealdred, Bishop of Worcester, to the court of the German emperor to set in train negotiations with the king of Hungary for the return of Edward the Exile. Ealdred was not at first successful, and in 1056 Earl Harold Godwinson's journey to Flanders, and possibly on to Germany and Hungary, was probably undertaken to further negotiations. The Exile finally arrived in England in 1057 with his wife and children, but died within a few days, on 19 April, without meeting the King. He was buried in Old St Paul's Cathedral.[8]

Greetings from Stamford Bridge.

Yaay! wargames! Dark ages! awesome!

I’m commenting this again but I would love to see the battle of clontarf

The Viking deployment rules are in tents. 😉

The battle of hastings was not fought at hastings but at a place called battle about 5 miles down the road. At the time hastings was swamp and marshes the only place that fits the battle was battle tt had the high ground and covered the road that William needed etc.

Hardrada didn't expect Godwinstons force so quickly. His men needed to recuperate after the earlier battle, and he seems not to have put out effective scouts to warn of Godwinstons approach

@Wilsontripplets

Жыл бұрын

but honestly in my opinion the move to rest might have been the right move had Godwinson not moved as quickly. Just one day later rest and recovered troops might have done better against the Saxon army.

Awesome stuff 😍

Great game as always LWTV, and love the professional interviews that help cement the historical context of the battles. One question however: why was the modern version of the English white dragon (the design itself borrowed from the Welsh flag) used to represent the Saxons as an icon in this report, instead of the more traditional Saxon Wyvern (either Gold on Red, as befitting an Earl of Wessex, or the more modern white Wyvern on Red background as per modern usage)?

Well done gentlemen.

Not only do I plan on buying these minis to play with this rules set I'd never heard of until now, I also have to get that "let's go clubbing" shirt because it RULES.

@LittleWarsTV

Жыл бұрын

Hah Josh found that shirt in the Hastings battlefield gift shop!

Great game!!

Excellent!

@jamest151

Жыл бұрын

1 last thought, the 6mm are just too much little guys, but can see your suggestion on 10mm being a solid alternative. Boards of say 30" or so is would be even more fun to me with the terrain creation. And in barren northwest Arizona, I might convince a coyote to play the Vikings on basis of his getting to plunder. (Alas, rare is the breathing like minded here) thanks guys!

Nice of king harold to come back from the dead cosplaying as a history teacher

Brilliant

Thanks for another great production. Your terrain boards are fantastic! Unfortunately, painting 6mm figures is too hard on my aging eyes, even with an Optivisor. Guess I'll have to remain a spectator for battles on this scale.

@Lorian667

Жыл бұрын

You could scale them up to 10mm and use the same rules. A base only represents a unit, it does not matter how many soldiers are on it.

@johnscarr70

Жыл бұрын

You could go 2mm and not have to worry at all. it works for me! The big bonus is although the paint job may not be the best, poor eyesight means you can't tell anyway once they're lined up. Seriously, I find 6mm a breeze. I'm in my 50s and wear glasses for reading. My 6mm are exclusively fantasy models and exclusively Irregular miniatures, but it's mostly about the impression of blocks of troops, so colour choices are the main factor rather than the details which are essential for larger scales.

Love Little Wars,keep up the good work,ps my surname is pure Saxon so I really want Godwinson to prevail

Godwinson!

For the next battle HG will wish he still had those mounted Huscarls.

I live 25 minutes from Stamford Bridge. Nice area

you should interview Jamie Jeffers from the British History Podcast for the Hastings video!!! a collab between you two would be amazing

@parkerprice6787

Жыл бұрын

this sounds like it's a marketing ploy but i swear it's not. just an avid fan and i bet there would be a lot of audience overlap (the BHP episode 391 was on Hastings and it was a masterpiece)

Welcome to the UK :) Great start to season 4, looking forward to the additonal Ravenfeast rules and scenarios. Also worth a mention there was a Peter Dennis 1066 Paperboys and Daniel Mersey of Lion Rampant and The Men Who Would Be Kings fame has done a wargamers guide to 1066 that may also be of interest. Great to see these Campaigns which have that fine balance of being linked battles but can be resolved quickly without dying out and left unresolved. Also btw were did you get the One Ring dice tray?

@LittleWarsTV

Жыл бұрын

It was 3D printed!

Hello Little Wars, First, you guys are great. love your videos and your Hannibal rules. Second, does the printed version of Ravenfeast include the large battle rules? I have the free download version, but I'm a book kind of guy.

I offer Harald "six feet of the ground of England, or perhaps more seeing that he is taller than most men" -- allegedly Harold Godwinson

I've always been fascinated by Stamford Bridge - granted, it is pretty grisly to have a "favorite" battle, but this would make my list for sure. I am sure that growing up in both England and Norway has something to do with that. How long did it take to build this board?

Guess I need to fire up the 3d printer and track down some 6mm files.

2 battles in a day. You're spoiling us! That game couldve gone pearshaped for Godwinson if the Vikings had mustered quicker and split the Saxon forces.

@LittleWarsTV

Жыл бұрын

Our Godwinson acted very decisively…perhaps even a bit recklessly!

Omg this is so cool, I'm would love to play this myself but I'm waiting for a game to release Red Dawn invasion of America it's alternate history but it's Good it releases December 3rd

@LicensedTerrorist

10 ай бұрын

Lmao me in the future I don't want to do that and I never bought the minis for it but now that I am rewatching this video I might get some stuff from baccus

Fun! I love the board, will there be a how-to video about it? As an aside: I think "fun" trumps "dogmatic accuracy", but having said that, is the mounted huscarls a historical unit? All I've read is that mounted troops were barely if at all used (and not used by the Saxons), and that "mounted" troops just used horses to arrive to the field of battle, where they would dismount before doing battle. This use of huscarls however seems to fling them on horseback right at the battle... (Again: I don't think this detracts from the fun, this was an amazing video as always! Just curious and that's why I'm asking)

Excellent stuff! But William the Bastard still awaits his turn to usurp the throne of Good King Harold

I love your map boards! Any chance y’all are gonna put up a video about how you made em??

@LittleWarsTV

Жыл бұрын

We didn’t film a tutorial for these, but we did take a lot of photos! We will post a photo tutorial on the Free Stuff page for everyone to check out if you’re interested. Very easy to make.

@ajlynch123

Жыл бұрын

@@LittleWarsTV That’s awesome! Thanks! I know a lot of people will be a tad less intimidated by making a beautiful 2x2 - which also looks like a great way to get people to dip their toes into terrain building.

Absolutely loving the new season. Love the 6mm armies and terrain. What size bases are you using for the units ?

@LittleWarsTV

Жыл бұрын

These are 20mm square bases! Tiny!

@TheRendar

Жыл бұрын

@@LittleWarsTVthank you so much. One last question. What size bases do you use for 6mm miniatures for your Age of Hannibal game ? Thx in advance

Great Norwegian accent. Sort of Oslo via Karachi.

@LittleWarsTV

Жыл бұрын

Hahah an excellent new surname

Hi guys, love this. Baccus do not make mounted Huscarls so did you use Norman cavalry?

The question on my mind though, if those any of those 2 battles had been different, how would it of affected the last game?

The battle of Hastings was actually at Crowhurst.

I'm curious whether there are any 6mm paper Viking models or whether it'd be better for units to be abstracted with like counters at that point.

Great game. Well. at least the anglo-danish Harold gets to go south and fight the franco-danish William. And at least the properly Norwegian Harald gets a free ticket to Valhalla, (surface christianity not withstanding).

Curses LWTV… I must stop watching your games as I’ve now got to buy 3 6mm armies and paint them!!! Looking forward to the final battle at Hastings!!!

MOAR AXES!!

Question: What would have happened if Hardrada had lost the last battle? Would this battle have not been fought or would there just have been another debuff for the Vikings?

@stefancarter1

Жыл бұрын

I would have run it that the Saxon player had little chance of outright winning but if he had outlasted then maybe Harald would have withdrawn and the Saxon player could have added his forces to Harold

@randomguy-tg7ok

Жыл бұрын

We saw one of the Earls (Edwin I believe) in this battle so I'd assume the elite forces were added, but yeah, maybe some extra fyrd would make sense.

I love the idea of war gaming and id love to do it but I can't see myself taking the time to paint them myself

@peterweston189

Жыл бұрын

They would be pricey, but you can buy figures painted

@The1JHorton

Жыл бұрын

Look up the International Kriegsspiel Society. We play online so no painting required.

@mightydestroyer1020

Жыл бұрын

@@The1JHorton awsome thanks

@mightydestroyer1020

Жыл бұрын

@@peterweston189 thanks

Why the hell does an ancient Norwegian king sound like a Punjabi speaking Modern English?

I'm obviously being dense but where can I find how to base up all three Armies in these videos? Cheers

what were the exact models bought for the vikings?

If you don’t mind sharing what were the alternative senerios had this battle and the previous one had different outcomes?

@LittleWarsTV

Жыл бұрын

We were always going to play the three historical match ups, but apply the losses. So it’s possible Hardrada might not have survived to see Stamford Bridge!

If you want to read some wonderful historical fiction based in the period that really evokes the atmosphere you could do worse than check out Bernard Cornwell's The Last Kingdom series of books.

Again; IT WAS NOT DANES! In fact there were a lot of Anglo-Danes on the Anglo-Saxon side. Kin Sven of Denmark invades to support The Danelaw against William in 1069, 1071 (or 1072), and I believe another time before his son Knud gathers all the Danish Leding to invade and take back the country in 1086. He is delayed in joining them, so they rebel, pursue him through the country to Odense, where he seeks refuge in Skt. Alban's with his brother Benedict, and his hird. And where the rebels kill him and gives Denmark our first royal saint. This threat makes William Harry the North, basically killing most of the inhabitants to prevent further rebellions, and compose The Domesday Book.

LWTV Guys are Deadheads! 😊

@tonymarano913

Жыл бұрын

LWTV Guy, just me.

Meanwhile in Hastings...

I have a bit of a problem with wargames when it comes to engagements. So lets use the cavalry charge in the beginning as a good example. Lets say for the sake of argument the infantry survived the initial charge. In reality, those engaged men, both cavalry and infantry, would wear out over time. In wargames it's usually a simple kill/no kill mechanic. In some cases models get removed, but in cases like this, there's no accounting for men falling out due to depleted morale over time, wounded men get taken out of combat, men get de-horsed, and formations becoming tired over time. Even elite formations will have some temporary losses as an engagement is joined. But there isn't a mechanic to account for that. I'm unsure of how to model that in a game, but it's an important mechanic of war that a lot of wargames overlook.

@LittleWarsTV

Жыл бұрын

An interesting point you raise. There ARE games that track losses and degradation over time. Some games are kill/no kill, but plenty exist that handle this differently. They typically require a roster to keep track of strength. Volley and Bayonet did this 30 years ago. More recently, games like General d Armee and Blucher both do the same. Even Fire and Fury tracked losses to the extent a brigade would go from Fresh to Worn to Spent, with various penalties as you degrade. For players, it’s a question of how much paperwork and tracking you want to do

It couldn't be a historical wargame without some nitpicking so ... Harald Godwinson was not simply king of the Saxons of England but the king of England. He was king of all within England, Celts, Danes, Angles and the Saxons.

"Fresh from a forced march" sounds a bit contradictory... 🙂

@LittleWarsTV

Жыл бұрын

Haha so true-20km wouldn’t leave you with that fresh feeling would it!

Just a question - if Harold Haldrada had won in y'all's wargame today, would it be he facing William at Hastings and not Godwinson?

@LittleWarsTV

Жыл бұрын

No, we were always going to run the three historical battles in sequence-but losses apply. So if Godwinson was killed at Stamford Bridge, for example, only his brothers would have been present at Hastings (less any other elite Huscarls lost at Stamford Bridge as well)

Im first to view and comment 🙂🙂

@LittleWarsTV

Жыл бұрын

Our hearty congratulations!

@crusaderknight379

Жыл бұрын

@@LittleWarsTV thank you generals