{"id":5103,"date":"2025-04-29T14:24:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T13:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.classwargames.net\/?p=5103"},"modified":"2025-05-27T21:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T20:55:08","slug":"class-wargames-against-the-norman-yoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.classwargames.net\/?p=5103","title":{"rendered":"Class Wargames rebels against the Norman Yoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Rural Guerrilla Warfare in Medieval England<\/h2>\n<p><em>&#8220;&#8221;There must be an end to serfdom!&#8221; Robin&#8217;s voice rang clear above the crackling fire. &#8220;An end of tolls and tithes and dues and forced services! The land for the peasants and the town for the workmen! No more castles, no more hired cut-throats in livery and no more war service, no barons, no king!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No baron! No king!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It won&#8217;t be easy, my friends &#8211; if it was, we&#8217;d have done it long ago. It takes years to persuade men, to show them the one truth &#8211; that there are only two classes, masters and men, haves and have-nots. Everything else &#8211; Normans and Saxons, Christian and Saracen, peasant and craftsman &#8211; is a means of keeping us apart, of keeping masters on top.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; Geoffrey Trease, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bows_against_the_Barons\"><em>Bows Against the Barons<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Class Wargames will be hosting a collective playing of <em>A Gest of Robin Hood<\/em> with its designer Fr\u00e9d Serval. <\/p>\n<p><p>Entrance free. Bring your own food &amp; drink.<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Friday 30th May<\/strong><br \/><strong>6.30pm-10.30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/maydayrooms.org\">MayDay Rooms<\/a><br \/>\n88 Fleet Street<br \/>\nLondon<br \/>\nEC4Y 1DH<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>A Gest of Robin Hood<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classwargames.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/rules_book.pdf\">rules<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>A Gest of Robin Hood<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classwargames.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/gest_robin_hood_playbook.pdf\">playbook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OH1rIlGM5ss\">Cardboard Creations interview<\/a> with Fr\u00e9d Serval about <em>A Gest of Robin Hood<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>A Gest of Robin Hood<\/em> on <a href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/338376\/a-gest-of-robin-hood\">Boardgamegeek<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5d_lpzbvpXU\">Players&#8217; Aid review<\/a> of <em>A Gest of Robin Hood<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LOmHwvxAy3Y\">Players&#8217; Aid playthrough<\/a> of <em>A Gest of Robin Hood<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\nMao Zedong, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/reference\/archive\/mao\/works\/1937\/guerrilla-warfare\/index.htm\">On Guerrilla Warfare<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\nFr\u00e9d Serval&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@HomoLudens1871\">Homo Ludens<\/a> YouTube channel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rural Guerrilla Warfare in Medieval England &#8220;&#8221;There must be an end to serfdom!&#8221; Robin&#8217;s voice rang clear above the crackling fire. &#8220;An end of tolls and tithes and dues and forced services! 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