My weekend away

[Saddletank]

...in Coudekerque, northern France.

Our wargame was the 1941 Ostfront game in 15mm. You can identify it by the grey-painted early German vehicles and the green order counters in many of the photos. The city of Siauliai in Livonia, south of Riga, fell to the 41st PzKorps, and the 1st, 26th and 38th Infantry Divisions, a battle from our bathtub-scale Barbarosa campaign.

The 1944 late ostfront game with zillions of tanks and the dunkelgelb-camo German vehicles was our friends from Lille.

There were lots of re-enactors and period artisans and artists there. Everything from Spartans to WWII. The singing Czech ladies in their WWII Soviet uniforms were magnificent! The Vikings were a lot of fun! The replica 1870 mitrailleuse was impressive.

I'm in one of the photos scoffing breakfast - yet MORE sausages. I worked out I had six meals in a row that involved sausages... However as long beer-intake periods spaced them apart it wasn't so bad.

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Note - not my photos!

[Jack ONeill]

Awesome! Thanks...

Jack B)

[Ingles of the 57th]

Hi Saddletank,

Searched hi-and-lo through the photographs looking for your trademark hat.

Can only conclude that you must be the rather ample lady in the red top ??

You've had us all fooled for years.

Seriously though, great pictures. Thanks for sharing them.

Geoff Laver Late of Her Britannic Majesty's 57th Regiment of Foot

[mb213]

Great pictures, looks like a rough outing (LOL). Try to do your best with the beer to sausage ratio.

[Saddletank]

I managed to get some well-earned rest at work today