{"id":86,"date":"2013-04-11T11:47:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T10:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/partridges.org.uk\/?p=314"},"modified":"2019-08-09T18:07:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T17:07:23","slug":"the-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"The Ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As promised, a photo of the ridge for Chalons, taken on some 3&#8242; x 2&#8242; boards for scale. As you can see, it will stretch past the centre line of the table and dominate the northern half of the battlefield. Controlling it will, I think, be critical to the flow of the battle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/wpid-20130410_200753.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" title=\"20130410_200753.jpg\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/wpid-20130410_200753.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There will be a total of nine commanders involved in the battle, divided between the two sides.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The Romans and their allies:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aetius, Last of the Romans, Magister Militum, Patricius et Dux.<\/li>\n<li>Theodoric, King of the Visigoths.<\/li>\n<li>Merovech, King of the Franks.<\/li>\n<li>Gondoic, King of the Burgundians.<\/li>\n<li>Sangiban, King of the Alans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The Huns and their subjects:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Attila, Great Khan of the Huns, the scourge of God.<\/li>\n<li>Ellac, Prince of the Huns.<\/li>\n<li>Ardaric, King of the Gepids.<\/li>\n<li>Valamir,&nbsp; King of the Ostrogoths.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As promised, a photo of the ridge for Chalons, taken on some 3&#8242; x 2&#8242; boards for scale. As you can see, it will stretch past the centre line of the table and dominate the northern half of the battlefield. Controlling it will, I think, be critical to the flow of the battle. There will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/?p=86\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Ridge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancients-wargaming","category-modelling-and-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}