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Hi everyone!
Well I had a crazy week at work, at the end of the week I ended up with a new title at work and a promise of a promotion and hopefully a pay raise. 

On Friday I left work early for a planned Valentines getaway with my Love! I had made all the arrangements without letting Cathrine know where we were going and or what we were going to do. I made reservations for the two of us to spend Friday night at Hasselby Slott, It is a high end hotel that is a castle.  It was built in 1650 and is a beatiful building. The grounds are very beatuiful and the best of all it is not far from where I live.

The walk up the driveway

View from the room

I had to come up with a story to tell Cathrine about why we were going to Hasselby Slott and I came up with a story that we were going to meet a bus that would take us to where we were going to spend the night.  Instead it was the destination that I had planned all along.

Our room was awesome. We had a sauna in the bathroom.  I had reserved a suite for the night and it was one of the two wings of the orignial castle building.  There are other rooms around the grounds but this was perfect.

Great room

Sauna for two!

When we walked out of the room to go to dinner the room opened up to the main court yard and it was just cool! I have never spent a night in a castle before.  

We had a great break from all the normal crazyness of life and enjoyed a good dinner and a quiet night alone. Remember I am here in Sweden to be with the woman I love!

Our table at the restaurant

Yes I did do some building of my wargaming miniatures. I finally glued together the 12 foot men at arms for Lion Rampant but I did not paint them up yet.

Well have a great week and remember the loved ones in your life!

First Game of Lion Rampant!!!

Hi everyone!

Well I had my first game of Lion Rampant and it was fun.
I see that the guys with bows and arrows are very dangerous and you need to kill them fast.

I am not going to write up an AAR since Dalauppror has done a great review of the game. Check it out here: AAR

Also check out the AAR that Late Night Painting did on the fight as well here: AAR

Below you will find my pictures of the game.

Enjoy!!

The table before the battle

The bridge!

My force as it starts before the battle!

Mounted Knights!

My foot nights on the move.

Forward!

Moving to contact

The enemy!

Over the Fence to fight!

Into the fray!

My men moving up to support the assault on the bridge.

Mounted Knights charge across the river.

My men face off with the enemy in the river!

A bloody fight in the water

All that is left of both our forces after the fight in the river.

My leader is not afraid of Mounted Knights!

My skirmishers are ridden down but they as well as my leader killed 4 of the Mounted Knights!

Lion Rampant

Hi everyone!
Well I was not expecting or planning to paint 28mm Knights for the first miniatures in 2015 but I have joined our clubs campaign game using Lion Rampant.  Dalauppror (website here: Link) from our club has posted some awesome pictures and AAR's on the current campaign game called "Håtunaleken" (Håtuna-Games).

Birger Persson with the tools of his trade

So I have been toying around with the idea of joining the group and I did. On Friday I found out that our local game store had all the miniatures I needed for me to create a 12 point starter army I decided I was in.  I journeyed over to Alpaspel and got a box of FireForge Teutonic Infantry.  From the box I should be able to make:

1x6 Foot Knights
1x12 Foot Serjants
1x6 Bisowers (Skirmishers) with crossbows

Here are the six Foot Knights

 I am now entered into the Håtunaleken as a Birger Persson who is from the house of Finsta. He is the father of a Swedish saint and he is buried at the Cathedral in Uppsalla he has a Wikipedia page but it is in Swedish so take a look here and use Google Translate if you want to translate the text.

Another shot of the group

 With Dalauppror's help I have been able to paint up my 6 foot Knights. I like the plastic miniatures as they allow for a lot of different poses, this is the first time I have built a unit that has been plastics that allow you to adjust the arms as well as the head.  The figures are very well made and there is a lot of detail in them.

Here are the back sides of the miniatures

Action shot of the Knights defending Birger Persson

I hope you enjoy the pictures and I will star working on the bisowers next.