[Ansteorra] War between Ansteorra and the Middle???

[Chris Zakes]

At 12:39 AM 9/25/2006, Burke wrote:

>There were three wars that pitted the forces of Ansteorra vs. the 
>Middle Kingdom.  The first was the one that is called "Queen 
>Willow's War" which took place in April of 1979.  Ansteorra was a 
>Principality of Atenveldt and it took place near what is now called 
>the Barony of Northkeep.  It was called Queen Willow's war because 
>it had been planned during Jonathan and Willow reign on the 
>Atenveldt throne but they stepped down approx one month before the 
>war was actually fought.

I remember that one. I recall being near the right flank in the first 
battle as we marched up to the Midrealmers. The order was given to 
"advance to engage" and the four or five guys to my right 
*evaporated* (I don't think they were actually killed, I think they 
may have stepped back when everybody else stepped forward) and 
suddenly *I* was the right flank, with Midrealmers running past me. I 
lasted about three seconds.

IIRC, that was also the event where someone had made a cover for his 
van that looked like an elephant.


>The so called second Ansteorra/Middle was (it was really the first 
>on since we had become a Kingdom) was held in Grimfells (now part of 
>Calontir) and Lloyd and Jocelyn were sitting on the sable thrones at 
>the time.  Most of us who attended the war called it the muck or mud 
>war as early on Saturday the heavy rains started and they never 
>stopped.  Since we were camping along a *formerly* dry lake shore 
>everyone packed up a left in a hurry.  People were dragging and 
>pushing cars out of the mud all day.  One additional point, that was 
>our first war since we had become a Kingdom,  we had a total of 34 
>fighters and we lost.

I'm afraid I missed that one.


>The next and last war between Ansteorra and Middle Kingdom was again 
>held in sunny Ansteorra up near Lake Oolagh which is north of 
>Northkeep.  Our crown was Sigmund and Sieglinda and we spent the 
>preceding year planning our response to our defeat.  This time we 
>showed up with well over 100 fighters and out numbered our foes.  In 
>the end Ansteorra had won a magnificent victory.

I was marshalling for that one. During one of the battles, when the 
Ansteorrans were mopping up the last of the Midrealmers, Duke 
Jonathan was pursuing a Midrealm fighter who ran past me and then 
attempted to hide behind me. I ducked, Jonathan clobbered him and 
went looking for more targets. <G>

         -Tivar Moondragon