The League of Augsburg
Guns of August 2018, Saturday
Real quick as I am beat.. two great games Saturday..
Left to right, Dannie Fogleman, Joe Brecher, Richard Jaekel, and Dick Goettel.. ALL of the these guys played in one of Barry and my sessions of the Pennyburnat Historicon. Some of them came from quite a ways, just to play BLB. I was stressed because in my haste Saturday morning I left the house without my QRS... THREE of them brought their own...
Left to right, Dannie Fogleman, Joe Brecher, Richard Jaekel, and Dick Goettel.. ALL of the these guys played in one of Barry and my sessions of the Pennyburnat Historicon. Some of them came from quite a ways, just to play BLB. I was stressed because in my haste Saturday morning I left the house without my QRS... THREE of them brought their own...
GNW play test at Partizan
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| Playing length ways on an 8 x 6 table offers the Swedes space to get moving and depth to the defending Russians |
Toggy and I cobbled together our Partizan game literally at the last minute for a variety of reasons. Needless to say, it looked fine and served and important purpose - that being; to showcase some of mechanisms written for inclusion in our War of Three KingsGNW/Eastern wars supplement...
Crossing the Shannon - July 15, 1690
Clarence Harrison - In the period between the Battle of the Boyne (July 1st, 1690) and The Battle of Aughrim (July 12th, 1691) a variety of smaller engagements took place in central and the south west Ireland.
This scenario is a fictitious encounter placed against the backdrop of small raids, sieges and low level actions which characterized the year following the Battle of the Boyne. Scenario...
This scenario is a fictitious encounter placed against the backdrop of small raids, sieges and low level actions which characterized the year following the Battle of the Boyne. Scenario...
Ottomans - keeping them coming!
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| Managed to complete one full code - Campaign dress Janissaries loading/priming |
OK - the big job - prepping 90 models for the production moulds has been done this week, Scraping and filing castings which are not going to be painted is a very tedious job so I punctuated that by quickly painting a few more of the new castings.
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| One more figure to add to the Campaign dress firing code |
These are speed...
The Guns of August 2018
Progress...
The static grass I use comes in sheets, so once the glue is good and dry, I can feather the edges and blend it in to make look a little more natural. That's it... I'll post another pic of the finished table with all of the rest of terrain in place this weekend...
The static grass I use comes in sheets, so once the glue is good and dry, I can feather the edges and blend it in to make look a little more natural. That's it... I'll post another pic of the finished table with all of the rest of terrain in place this weekend...
The Guns of August 2018
With this kind of view you are doing WHAT?
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| Mrs H knows how to pick 'em - I get to look at this all day whilst thinking abut toy soldiers |
Well that's me. Travel does broaden the mind but I have things to do you see. I've got this BLB3 supplement to finish for the Great Northern War and the sun does not really agree with my Caledonian complexion anyway.
With a view like the above to inspire me (not of Landsknechts and Condotierre) but of Turks...
What you've been waiting for - Ottomans!
It is with both great pleasure and excitement that the LoA Blog previews our first six codes of Ottomans.
Based around the Janissary corps circa 1680-1720 the packs represent:
1. Janissary full dress Advancing
2. Janissary full dress Standing
3. Janissary campaign dress firing line
4. Janissary campaign dress loading
5. Janissary Command standing
6. Janissary Command advancing
These sculpts should be...
Exploring the possibilities - New Military civilians
The possibilities with these figures are enormous. With fifteen marching /advancing musketeers in three sets of five, each with four arm variants we offer 60 variants on the musketeers.
With the open handed models depending on the weapons used - scythes, short pikes, pole-arms, long pikes etc the options are there for a further 60 variants.
These are the first of a series of 'real' people in 'real'...
Availability of new GNW Swedish Cavalry - You can order Now!
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| SC01 Swedish Cavalry troopers charging variant #1 |
Demand has alas outstripped supply and with commitments made to pre-order customers, the entire first batch of all 8 codes was gone before I even managed to put them on the website!
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| SC02 Swedish Cavalry troopers charging variant #2 |
So, now they ARE on the website and the lead time will be August 3 for dispatch of the next shipment from our new...
Crossing the Shannon - The Guns of August 2018
Clarence Harrison - My work schedule has been crazy recently and I realized I was never going to be able to finish the Limerick project I had planned for The Guns of August (maybe Historicon 2019). Rather than give up on the idea of attending, I set out to find a different scenario to run.
While sorting through scenarios, I stumbled on the map for 'Crossing the Shannon'. This game appeared in the...
Fancy a Danish anyone?
We have five new codes of Danish infantry coming to you soon.
D01 Musketeers marching
D02 Grenadiers marching
D03 Command marching
D04 Musketeers firing
D05 Musketeers loading and priming
In addition we have flags for the Danish Army during the period of the War of the Spanish Succession and the Great Northern War.
To at...
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| Danish infantry marching - Regiment Prinds George |
D02 Grenadiers marching
D03 Command marching
D04 Musketeers firing
D05 Musketeers loading and priming
In addition we have flags for the Danish Army during the period of the War of the Spanish Succession and the Great Northern War.
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| Code DN01 Danish infantry marching |
To at...