It's a really neat idea made with washers and punched card, full details here
23/03/2009
Neat casualty marker
Just spotted this over on the General de Brigade forum.
It's a really neat idea made with washers and punched card, full details here
It's a really neat idea made with washers and punched card, full details here
22/03/2009
Hetzenberg battle over
After 3 days gaming I have completed the battle for AJ and the results documented and sent to him last night. Hopefully he will start publishing the narrative in the Hetzenberg Chronicles in a few days.
As the battle was smaller in scale than I usually fight I developed a regimental variant on my SYW/AWI rules and the details are over on my AWI blog.
ps The battle has reduced my painting output somewhat, but my intention was to do more gaming this year, whenever possible
21/03/2009
Druids
The Ancient Briton army list for WRG 6th allows one to have a religious group of sacrificing druids, screaming women, stationary altar and fires. I'm not sure how effective it will be, but since the HaT Celtic command came with druids and the Warrior Queen set provided a couple of "screaming" women I had to make it. The altar is a suitably sized piece of gravel and the animal on it came from a very old Atlantic Greek life set which had an animal sacrifice (it's always worth keeping these odd bits!).
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19/03/2009
Lots of goodies.
Really been a good day, a mornings exercise in the sun digging the garden. The postie then delivers the long overdue "The War Game Companion" and then the afternoon fighting the proxy Hetzenberg battle and then this evening down the wargames club.
The War Game Companion was on my Xmas list and I fully expected it then. Disappointed, I ordered it from Amazon only for it to be delayed for lack of stock. A quick flick through indicates that it's going to be a cracking read.
I'm also using the Hetzenberg battle as a test for a smaller scale action variant on my AWI/SYW rules. In this case a unit represents a company/squadron with 4 companies or 3 squadrons to a regiment (similar to Charge/The Wargame)
Yesterday Wargames Illustrated arrived with the latest freebee a Warlord Plastic ECW figure. I'll need to get it painted to compare with my existing Minifig ECW before I go to Salute.
Tuesday I collected the Smith and Hinckley book on operation Avalanche from the library and also picked up a couple of cheap WW2 books as well
17/03/2009
Celtic Commanders
Although I have a complete Ancient Briton or Gallic army already the purchase of the latest HaT Celtic Command and Warrior Queens sets were just a whim.
Although the figures are in the new horribly soft plastic I found that putting them in the dishwasher actually cleaned them so that acrylic paint would adhere so one step forward.
It also resulted in the superglue actually bonding the parts on the chariots, but still left the problem of parts not being completely square. I'll just have to wait and see how well the bond stands up to normal handling.
Although the figures are in the new horribly soft plastic I found that putting them in the dishwasher actually cleaned them so that acrylic paint would adhere so one step forward.
It also resulted in the superglue actually bonding the parts on the chariots, but still left the problem of parts not being completely square. I'll just have to wait and see how well the bond stands up to normal handling.
Consular Guard Chasseurs a Cheval
It always amazes me that whenever I need to look up some uniform details, that my horde of books often doesn't cover the specific details I am looking for. In this case I wanted the details for the early uniform worn by the Guard Chasseurs a Cheval when they were part of the Consular Guard. Various texts went into infinite details of aspects of the imperial uniform with only a cusory mention of what went before. Dispairing I did what I was planning to do and used some left over Revell Chasseurs.
Depending on the context I'll use them as Consular Guard, ordinary Chasseurs or Guides as necessary.
Personally my best guess is that the actual uniform would have been the surtout (what was later the undress uniform) with a bicorne.
Depending on the context I'll use them as Consular Guard, ordinary Chasseurs or Guides as necessary.
Personally my best guess is that the actual uniform would have been the surtout (what was later the undress uniform) with a bicorne.
15/03/2009
West Country wanderings
Yes, i sneaked off again, this time to the the West Country , especially around Cornwall.
For Steve-the wargamer I found an excellent micro brewery at the Driftwood Spars and a pint of "Bawden Rocks", which are a couple of splendid rock stacks offshore nearby. Another day found a pint of Black Pearl from the Wooden Hand brewery together with a Sunday roast, just the job after being caught in a rainstorm. I also acquired a cheap copy of "Marlborough's Shadow", the life of Cadogan in a bookshop in Wells.
Wargaming and painting wise I did nothing, expect catching up on my reading with the Battle of Paoli and "Forrard" the history of the East Riding Yeomanry.
The former covered the AWI battle in 1777 where General Grey gained his "No flint" title. I found it a disappointing read there was plenty of detail but it wasn't pulled together in a coherent fashion. However the was enough to be able to create a game/scenario around the "massacre"
"Forrard" was very much a standard WW2 regimental history, its interest really lies in the actions of the 1st ERY in 1940 around Cassel, otherwise it's a history of a pretty ordinary armoured regiment, enlivened with a number of amusing anecdotes.
For Steve-the wargamer I found an excellent micro brewery at the Driftwood Spars and a pint of "Bawden Rocks", which are a couple of splendid rock stacks offshore nearby. Another day found a pint of Black Pearl from the Wooden Hand brewery together with a Sunday roast, just the job after being caught in a rainstorm. I also acquired a cheap copy of "Marlborough's Shadow", the life of Cadogan in a bookshop in Wells.
Wargaming and painting wise I did nothing, expect catching up on my reading with the Battle of Paoli and "Forrard" the history of the East Riding Yeomanry.
The former covered the AWI battle in 1777 where General Grey gained his "No flint" title. I found it a disappointing read there was plenty of detail but it wasn't pulled together in a coherent fashion. However the was enough to be able to create a game/scenario around the "massacre"
"Forrard" was very much a standard WW2 regimental history, its interest really lies in the actions of the 1st ERY in 1940 around Cassel, otherwise it's a history of a pretty ordinary armoured regiment, enlivened with a number of amusing anecdotes.
Over on the Wars of Louis XIV blog there was mention of a painting of the Duke on Monmouth at the seige of Maastrich,t so I made my way to the Victoria art gallery in Bath to have a look at the real thing, however given its position over the stairs you get a better impression from the blog entry!
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