BuckMoot - A Midgard Heroic Battles Gaming Day in Aylesbury - Update 1

 CALLING ALL MIDGARD PLAYERS

We are still open to further games for Buckmoot. To host a game you do not need to be an  umpire, just bring the armies along and join in the fun and play it. Or even leave the players to get on with it, while you join in another game you fancy. 

If you have written a scenario you want to test out, or created a couple of army lists and would like other players’ feedback, this would be an opportunity to get it on the table and try it out! 

The game selection is not finalised, but far we have:

Bronze Age Historical - recreate the epics of Homer on the plain before the walls of Troy

Chronopia Fantasy - battle in the hot sands of the Land of Two Rivers

Italian Wars Historical - Lead the chivalry of France to glory against the League of Venice

BUCKMOOT: A fun day of Midgard Heroic Battles games in mid-Buckinghamshire

When: 19th September 2026 10am - 4pm

Where: Walton Parish Hall, Walton Street, Aylesbury, HP21 7QX

Cost: £11 including tea, coffee and biscuits

Anyone interested in hosting a game, or just attending as a player, please contact me on BuckMoot@gmail.com

Herts of Lard 2026

 On Saturday Mark and I trekked to Rickmansworth (well drove 45 minutes actually!) for Herts of Lard 2026. This is a day of Two Fat Lardies games and great fun. This year there were 15 different games and about 78 participants.

In the morning I played an Aliens scenario, using a variant of What a Cowboy. I'd never player these rules before, but (as with many lardie rules) they were fun to play and easy to pick up the basics. I got to play with the heroes of the film, Ripley and Hicks.

We got lucky a few times, but managed to kill the Alien Queen. We ran out of time to finish the game, but we had a clear escape route, so the umpire gave us a win. the only player killed was Burke, the Weyland-Yutani Corporation lacky, so no one was sorry about that!

Sucess, Ripley finds Newt!

My afternoon game was a Dark Age base using Midgard. This was a superb scenario, based on the Battle of Cynuit from Bernard Cornwell's novel The Last Kingdom. Despite being slaughtered as the Saxons, I had so much fun I forgot to take any pictures! So here is a shot of the morning game by the scenario's creator, Simon Stokes.

Here is a few shots of the other games.

 

A rather superb 28mm Chain of Command game set in 1940. I loved this railway station, it reminded my of a couple of stops on the heritage railway we visited in Alsace last year.

Another WW2 game, this might have been I Ain't Bin Shot Mum!

Another 28mm Chain of Command bash, again nice buildings.

A snowy Battle of the Bulge game, again Chain of Command.

What a Commando, a WW2 special forces dust up using a variant of What a Cowboy.

Napoleonic ships, not sure what rules, I don't think this was Kiss me Hardy..

A really nice Shape Practice! again based on an incident from a Bernard Cornwell novel.

A Chain of command game set in Normandy.

Another Sharpe Practice! game, no prizes for guessing where this is set.

And one more WW2 game, set in the North Africa. Not sure, but I suspect this was also a Chain of Command game.

There was also Sink the Scharnhorst, a Bag the Hun aerial game, but when I passed by the table there was nothing to see, except an expanse of sea!

This year I arranged things to stay on and join the evening gathering at the pub for a very nice meal and a few beers. I spent a very pleasant evening with a bunch of gamers who had travelled down from Yorkshire, then staggered off to the station and got the train home. A fantastic day and I'm looking forward to next year!