Uthred book

[martin goddard]

Just a recommendation to members here that the Uthred book is really good.
Focusses on the reign of :-


937 AD
A combined invasion of Vikings, Welsh and Scots is crushed by Aethelstan at Brunanburh (no one knows where this was).


marvellous



martin

[Colonel Kilgore]

What, there's a big battle and "foreign" people get killed, with Englaland and the Sais triumphant?

That's a shocker, I'll probably not bother reading the rest of the book then...

Simon 

[martin goddard]

I am on to the new Jack Reacher now. Hope he kills the bad guys?   Saddened that i have now finished all six series of JUSTIFIED.

martin

[Colonel Kilgore]

937 AD
A combined invasion of Vikings, Welsh and Scots is crushed by Aethelstan at Brunanburh (no one knows where this was).

Wouldn't it be wonderful if someone had produced a set of figures and a suitably elegant ruleset for this intriguing period of history...? 

Simon

[martin goddard]

That man would be genius Simon.

Some chap on TMP was extolling a new range of Western figures for 2020. His praise was that they were the first company ever to do the same figure mounted and on foot.  Gosh, great idea.


martin

[Colonel Kilgore]

Even better to do a casualty of that same figure too? That really would be novel... 

Simon

[Leman (Andy)]

There is some pretty compelling circumstantial and "logical" evidence that Brunanburgh is likely to be Bromborough on the Wirral, mainly based on the Mersey providing a good landing site for a Viking fleet and its proximity to Wales. The fighting may have taken place in the Dibbin valley. Then again, I'm biased as I lived in the Dibbin valley up to the age of 10.

Andy