It is hard to believe that we are looking at the best part of a year since Piggy Longton was last visited and the chronicler set down their pen.
Over the next few weeks, we will be picking up on the trials and tribulations of our small hamlet, with a look at the start of 1472.
In preparation for this series of threads, I thought it worth returning to two posts.
The first covers the concept of Piggy Longton and its geo-political history. This post first appeared in October 2020 and there will be new readers who will have missed it altogether and old readers who may just enjoy a dip back into the post.
The second is the most recent post, dated February 2023, when the rebel, Edward (Yorkist), makes approaches to Lord Darcy (Lancastrian) to gain his support in securing the crown.
The meeting did not go so well and the conclusion of that post left us with three dilemmas.
Would Edward, together with Lord Trebian (Yorkist), make an attack on Piggy Longton?
Could the Bishop of Dungborough (Stephen the Fearless) get to London to warn the King that Edward was at large and had foreign mercenaries with him?
Lord Darcy had sent Sir John Delves to seek military aid from Somerset (4th Earl), how would that go?
We also have a new character, Sir. James de Giffard, the eldest son of Lord Darcy, who is being trusted to his first serious battle command.
Archers (Perry plastics) for Lord Stanley have just gone onto the painting sticks to give us another unit for our growing armies.
At the end of last year, I bought a set of flags from Pete’s Flags for the Stanley brothers, so hopefully this year we will see their contingents arrive …… though they haven’t decided who they will side with yet :-)
Resource Section.
The origins of the Parish of Piggy Longton. LINK
https://battlefieldswarriors.blogspot.com/2020/10/a-battlefield-to-fight-over-often.html
The last post (Feb 2023) about Piggy Longton as covered by the chroniclers. LINK
https://battlefieldswarriors.blogspot.com/2023/02/edward-visits-piggy-longton-1472.html
My sister webspace ‘COMMANDERS’ showcases the various figure and boardgame systems that I am enjoying and gives a flavour of where current projects are up to. Link.
Verily we are blessed to have the annals of Piggy Longton in our sights again.
ReplyDeleteThanks Phil, We has't been gone f'r too longeth
ReplyDeleteYea verily, this be most heartily welcome news, tales of ye doings of Piggy Longton hath been absent from ye net o"er long, sirrah!
ReplyDeleteHi Keith, I am reading old chronicle reports to try and get up to speed and make sure that I don’t make any gaffs with the now rather large cast!
DeleteRather scarily when I’m reading your comments I’m immediately slipping from a pseudo-Medieval voice into that of a pirate. Ahhh, me hearties, that be what oi be doin’… But International Talk Like A Pirate Day isn’t until September 😉
DeleteCheers,
Geoff
funny how fast a year goes by huh?
ReplyDeleteI fondly remember Piggy Longton.
Hi Stew, the danger with setting something aside for a month or two is that it very quickly become six months and then twelve!
ReplyDeleteIt’s funny that something that started as a joke, pretty much now feels like a real place :-)
Really love your Piggy Longton story line. I think you should run other games in other periods over the same map. It’d be cool to see the area in 1066, or the home guard defending it from zee Chermans in 1940.
ReplyDelete100% agree JBM and without wanting to sound like the class swot, I am pretty sure I suggested this was a great option back in 2020!
DeleteHi JB, there are plans to get there … eventually :-) It has become the gift that keeps on giving and has lived longer than I would have thought.
ReplyDeleteNice to see a thread with legs continue. Several enjoyable scoots down your rabbit holes. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteHi, thanks, more of the same I hope.
DeleteAs you say Norm, hard to believe it's been so long since there was a clash of arms at Piggy Longton! Nice to have this little refresher in preperation of the resumption of hostilities:).
ReplyDeleteHi Steve, yes, it’s rather like how found with BKC, suddenly a year passes. I am doing my own catch up and finding some characters that I had actually forgotten about!
ReplyDeleteThat really is a beautiful map, Norm!
ReplyDeleteThank you, pen line and watercolour ….. accidentally good :-)
ReplyDeleteStephen the Fearless, Bishop of Dungborough, is clearly still my favorite character.
ReplyDeleteHi Steve, yes, :-), I worry about him making that journey to London :-)
ReplyDeleteAs an aside, I was using the Never Mind the Billhooks rules and will be migrating across to Hail Caesar, the main reason being that Billhooks can be very bloody as far as leaders are concerned and I don’t think the hamlet would cope well with that amount of churn.
This is about my third attempt to comment Norm...last one was 90% done (on my phone) when Blogger just disappeared!
ReplyDeleteA very nice looking starter boardgame that looks like you could easily transfer it to grids with small scale vehicles.
Re postage we have similar issues here. If a parcel is small and below a $ value, you get through, but once i made the mistake of a joint order that exceeded $400 (the magic number at the time) and had to pay $60 GST. To add insult to injury, because they stopped the package, I also had to pay around $90 Bio Security fee...that really irritated me!
Hi Keith, that $90 is a big sting. Here for years, it was hit and miss as to whether something got stopped by Customs. You might get 2 games slip under the radar and then one wold get caught and charged and gamers tended to average that out - as long as enough got through, it worked out okay for them, but these days, I think automated systems are catching everything.
DeleteOur Brexit (divorce from the European Union) has added to the problem, because we had become used. To so much imported stuff being duty free.
OMG I just realised this comment is on the wrong bloody post - I really am losing it!
DeleteI am glad you are back mucking about in Piggy Longton Norm! Great to have a nice campaign that can come and go as the mood fits.
ReplyDeleteHi Ben, yes, it even has me painting a few figures, always a sign that enthusiasm has been piqued, plus I have picked up a couple of period books.
ReplyDeleteAh Norm, it's great to be back in Piggy Longton. every time I see that lovely map it brings a smile to my face. Excellent back story and characters help to bring it to life. Looking forward to seeing new additions to the forces and the unfolding events.
ReplyDeleteI have been somewhat engrossed in the period again recently myself as a result of watching the Channel 4 'Princes in the Tower - the new evidence' documentary (still not 100% convinced), the whole period is full of intrigue. Oddly enough the WOTR is one period I have never done.
Cheers,
Lee.
Hi Lee, hope it continues to entertain through 2024.
ReplyDeleteI liked the Princes in The Tower documentary and have bought the book on the Kindle, hoping to find some further points of evidence, above the main ones mentioned on the TV, that support the theory.
It is all very intriguing and adds grist to the mill of the Richard III Society who have always felt that Richard is a much maligned character.
Looking forward to the fun (fighting) soon 👍
ReplyDeleteHi Matt, the storms gather 🙂
DeleteI'm delighted you're returning to the hamlet and picking the thread up again!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Hi Iain, its been too long!
ReplyDeleteNow I thought I’d commented on this, obviously not! Great to hear you’re taking us back to the tales of High Adventure in Piggy Longton.
ReplyDeleteI used to be a member of the Richard III society lots of good information to be had amongst the emotive pieces. But I think it’s a good example of history being written by the victors
Hi Graham, I am looking forward to delving into the new Princes in the Tower book, that raises evidence that they were not killed in the tower and that one was present at Stoke Field and another at a later rebellion against Henry Tudor.
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