The League of Augsburg
Rawdon Raises an Army, Part One
Thomas Grove - After playing a game of Beneath the Lily Banners/The War of Three Kings I was hooked. Now to create my own army.
I really enjoyed Arthur Rawdon's force from the scenario we playedso I decided I would stick with the Cock of the North. In reality Arthur's military career didn't last long. But pulling from Clarence's and Barry's alternate history I'm going to soldier on with him and...
Tales from the Road: Futa Pass, Tuscany: German Cemetery
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| A nice antidote to the intensity of Salute! |
A much anticipated trip to Tuscany brought some unexpected but very enjoyable hobby related activity. Mrs H had booked us into a hotel near Mugello, north of Florence. It lies on a road between the now under-restoration home castle of the Medicis and the famous high pass at Futa where the Gothic Line was cracked by the Americans in 1944.
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| The largest German... |
The Cock of the North, Part Four
Clarence Harrison- Well, that was fun! Running a game for players who have no experience with a rule set is always tricky. You can spend a lot of time bogged down in tedious explanations of mechanics and the minutia of the charts and discover that no one remembers it all anyway, or you can just dive in. I explained that the troops mostly use d6s or d8s to resolve their actions (a concept they WERE...
Amazing diorama work from Tactica
This French and Indian Wars diorama is truly stunning work. Scale is 15 or 20mm. The makers are a German team from somewhere in the north of the country.
I saw another piece of their work through photos which is an enormous Napoleonic diorama with several Austrian infantry regiments depicted on an 1:1 scale.. yes you read that correctly.
Enjoy!
Kurpfalz Feldherren Wargame Club, Germany
We meet up with the guys from Kurpfalz Feldherren at Tactica, Hamburg, Crisis, Antwerp and even at Partizan. They do wonderful games at least two of which have been featured on the blog before. Lovely bunch of people, totally into their hobby and it really shows.
This wonderful game was I think Juergen told me, inspired by some of the Donnybrook Dark ideas (well the town at least). I just love the...
Donnybrook in Sleepy Hollow, Part 2 - Converting Bokkenrijders
Cat Reddington-Wilde: This time we'll look at the foot sloggers.
Foot Mob #1 received head masks with twisted cloth goat horns, in the style of those worn by the mob in the TV series. Some horns are added with bits of green putty. Others are carved in. Figures that started with hats, I carved down the crowns to be head-wrap size and clipped off most of the brim, but left some bits of brim to carve...
Foot Mob #1 received head masks with twisted cloth goat horns, in the style of those worn by the mob in the TV series. Some horns are added with bits of green putty. Others are carved in. Figures that started with hats, I carved down the crowns to be head-wrap size and clipped off most of the brim, but left some bits of brim to carve...
Donnybrook in Sleepy Hollow, Part 1 - Converting Bokkenrijders
Cat Reddington-Wilde: Several of us at the Boston Trained Bands gaming club have been working on a big Donnybrook convention scenario to bring to Huzzah! in Portland Maine this May. And I have fantasies of bringing it to Crisis in November if I can sort out the logistics and financing…
Rewind to the beginning of the project: Last summer, I was searching for likely rules to use for a some Gothic...
Rewind to the beginning of the project: Last summer, I was searching for likely rules to use for a some Gothic...
Poltava part 2 - the terrain
Jon and Diane used artificial grass for the terrain and the manual paint job was very effective. The playing surface is very robust and would take a fair bit of punishment if unfortunate enough to experience it.
The table was twenty feet by six and the paints used were I understand, commercial emulsions. The paint job was completed by running the mats over a wallpapering table.
The redoubts are...
Christmas Game - Harrison's Meadow VA June 1861
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| Longstreets's Brigade march to Harrison's Meadow |
I do have other interests apart from 1660-1721 and so for the Christmas game this year I thought I'd surprise Toggy with an ACW encounter from the very beginning of the war.
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| Ewell's Brigade approach from the south west |
In this fictitious pre-1st Bull Run encounter elements of Tyler's 1st US Division attempt to protect the Warrenton Road road adjacent...
Guest post -Swedish artillery
Some wonderful work by William Nguyen Tan Ho from France on Swedish artillery from the Great Northern War.
William has done a super job on these chaps and the basing just sets it off nicely. I was very happy to receive the pictures and share them on the blog.
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| Wonderful limber piece too! |
Poltava part 2 - the wargame
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| A late 'battle shot' with the Swedes through the redoubt line |
Jon is very experienced at running large games as he owned and managed a wargaming centre on Crete for several years.
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| The Swedes columns lined up to storm the redoubt line before the battle commenced |
The plan for the one day show in Antwerp was to steer the Battle of Poltava 1709 through its various distinct phases in order to get to the...
Poltava Part 1 - taster of an epic
This game was a year in the making and is the result of the hard work of Jon and Diane Sutherland who created it as a commission for a private collector.
I have been intimately involved with the development as all of the figures used are Warfare Miniatures and there are roughly 2,500 plus about 400 horses here! I counted 'em, Jon painted 'em and Diane built the terrain!
The commission was...