Feudan Scandinavians in Helsinki - 5 ADLG video battle reports

[madaxeman]

Earlier this year (OK, June) I headed up to Helsinki to take part in a "Northern Crusades" ADLG competition.

Admittedly the competition aspect was somewhat secondary to just grabbding the chance to go to somewhere new in the far north in Summertime, so as to find out how late it would stay light, and exactly how expensive a pint actually would be in a place like Finland.

Even so, I did manage to squeeze in some gaming, using (of course) a Feudal Scandinavian army in a medieval-themed 5-game event.

As it seems it's possible to embed YouTube videos on this forum, here they are!

vs Later Byzantines:

vs Hungarians

vs Medieval Germans

vs More Later Byzantines

vs The Teutonic Knights

All in all this was a cracking weekend - if a tad expensive - with some very enjoyable games and a mid table finish for the Feudal Scandiwegians.

Our Finnish (or more accurately Greco-Finnish) hosts were extremely hospitable too, we learnt quite a lot more than we expected about Finnish bar culture (400ml pints, and lots of METAL if you are interested), as well as managing to tick off almost all of the vaguely military-historical stuff there is to see in Helsinki - some of which is also on my website at https://www.madaxeman.com/reports/Helsinki_2025.php

[Imperial Dave]

400ml pints.....?

[Erpingham]

I liked the U-boat.

[madaxeman]

400ml pints.....?

Yes indeed.  A "pint" in some pubs was around 11 Euros, and came in a pint glass.

Unfortunately many of these "pints" ended some way short of filling teh glass - as the measure inside was ( officially supposed to be ) rather less than a pint ..

[Imperial Dave]

11 euros for a 2/3 pint....