Kasteeltuinen Arcen Eastern Medieval weekend

As in the previous message was told, we were invited to display our 1507 demo at the new small medieval museum at the Arcen castle

.Reenactors arriving through the gate.

the entrance to the museum

Hands in the pocket; it was really cold, some 5 degrees and the doors need to stay open.

 As the lighting was not ready yet the pictures aren't of the best quality.

Our 1507 demo

Impressions of the museum

a knight is watching our demo

We hadn't any time to visit the medieval market, battles, demonstrations etc. We only saw the guns from the museum going to play their part in the reenactment battles

Followed by the powder

Kasteelpark Arcen-Middeleeuws evenement

At Eastern there wil be a medieval event at the Kasteeltuinen Arcen at Arcen, Limburg, The Netherlands.
Vikings and late medieval troops wil be attending and show how they live and fight. A vikingship wil be landed.

The Alde Garde will be there with their 1507 demo.

Hope to see you there.

Warcon 27

Some more information:

The show is on March 14th 2015
Where: Braemkasteelstraat 29-45, B-9050 Gentbrugge, Belgium

some more information can be found at: link

Hope to see you all there, will be a great wargame day and enjoy!!

Our Website: www.aldegarde.nl

Hello,

one way or the other, our website was hacked and we have problems to get it function again.

Gladly, Weebly came to the rescue and we have transferred a lot of material to:

www.aldegarde.weebly.com .

But that's not a problem for the users of the old site as you will be directed directly to the new site.


So we are restoring the site on the weebly adress and deciding on a later moment what to do with the old site.

If you have any questions or would like any additions, please let us know

greetings and a great 2015

Alde garde (peter & Jan)

Crisis 2014 Antwerp (2)

 Two pictures of the ACW battle by Stipsicz Hussars

I think the WW2 game by the twofatlardies

WW1 game

And some pictures of our 1507 Demo about a year in the Guelders war

Crisis 2014 Antwerp (1)

Crisis 2014 is history already.
As always a great show which earns a big thanks from us for the organising club TSoA and hopefully seeing you all in 2015.
Our demo was positioned, together with other, great demos and participation games, in the second hall. This year this hall had received new lighting so was now a great venue.

As we are just the two of use, we never have sufficient time to go around the stands and tables a lot so only a few photos are underneath.

Although a lot of WWII games were presented, none had a better layout then the battle of Keren. Great innovative terrain looking great.

some detail of the steep hill

WWII Flames of War

Battleground game by Gent-Brugge club 

Another WW2 game going on

A modern war, good looking table.

the Witte Ridder club with a flames of war game

WW1 Tannenberg with Crush the Kaiser rules. We must look into these to use with our 20mm WW1 figures

54mm figure battle. Always have a certain charme those big figures

a winter war (40K?) game

like the river terrain

a mighty castle

"Well lit" medieval tents  

French and Indian War was well presented with this demo

Preparation for Crisis

We are now painting and modelling for our new early renaissance demo for the Crisis show, As it is now only two weeks we are still painting figures, modelling terrain and neglecting our wifes. Which is a normal thing for wargames preparing for a show, I supppose.
The theme of the demo will be a  "what if" scenario in 1507 and will be depicting troops from Gueldres and France against Imperial troops.
Some pictures of the preparations

Fortified manor house is being build

a regiment of Landsknechten almost finished

it's forlorn hope

the arquebus skirmishers

the pike block

Exhibition about Gueldres

In the Franz Pfanner Huis in Arcen, Netherlands, an exhibion was organised about the history of the Overkwartier van Gelre (or Gueldres). As the historical Gueldres is now partly Dutch while other parts are Germany, this exhibition was both in Dutch and German.
As Venlo, our home town, was situated in the Overkwartier our model of Venlo, used in our 28mm medieval demo, was used in the exhibion.
Some pictures are underneath.

Venlo, our wargames model

the four quarters of Gueldress, the Overkwarier  was the most southern part (in orange)