The League of Augsburg
Story of a show game 5 - Forces : The Ottomans
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| Janissaries in full dress |
Putting the Ottoman force together for Donnybrook required a little thought. Should it fall under the Army Faction or under the Tribal Faction? Categorization under the latter may seem to be bordering on racist bearing in mind the Ottomans were for centuries one of the most formidable cultures and imperial powers in the known world yet, their army falls into an area...
Story of a show game 4 - Forces : The Imperialists
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| This was a hoot! 1693 and riding roughshod over the French but it's 20 years on.. can the Turk be vanquished too? |
I very much enjoyed the German Grand National 1693 game which we ran at Tactica and elsewhere in the first half of 2018. The competition between four German ally states against a common enemy was colourful and fun and even spawned an X rated version which I think was called the W hores?...
Story of a show game 3 - Warfare Miniatures at CRISIS 2018
First off, the bit that it important - We are offering a 10% discount on PRE-ORDERS made before CRISIS 2018 on November 3. Any order for any product placed by email before November 1 will receive the discount.
Payment can be by paypal or on the day at the show. Obviously this neutralizes postage charges.
What stock will we be carrying on the day?
Payment can be by paypal or on the day at the show. Obviously this neutralizes postage charges.
What stock will we be carrying on the day?
FIGURES
The Ottomans OT001 - OT006
Swedish and Russian...
Story of a show game 3 - Warfare Miniatures at CRISIS 2018
First off, the bit that it important - We are offering a 10% discount on PRE-ORDERS made before CRISIS 2018 on November 3. Any order for any product placed by email before November 1 will receive the discount.
Payment can be by paypal or on the day at the show. Obviously this neutralizes postage charges.
What stock will we be carrying on the day?
Payment can be by paypal or on the day at the show. Obviously this neutralizes postage charges.
What stock will we be carrying on the day?
FIGURES
The Ottomans OT001 - OT006
Swedish and Russian...
Story of a show game 2 - The scenario
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| The Panzer Division will watch from the sidelines whilst the infantry slug it out |
The scenario for CRISIS 2018 is called Brahms & Liszt. It is set in 1713 on the south-eastern frontier or, north-western if you are Turkish! This is twenty years after our previous show effort of 2018 at TACTICA which also involved Imperial forces racing to over run the French in the German Grand National 1693.
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| Prussia... |
Story of a show-game 1 - the trade off
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| LoA North American Chapter - Clarence did ALL the work for this one at Historicon 2016 |
Being a Team of two, you have to make decisions which are inevitably a compromise. I have captained some productive groups since starting on the Event Trail around 1992. Sometimes we were two, occasionally three, many times and for several years, I flew solo.
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| Don't be 'leg-ist' please! |
I don't envy larger groups...
Busy painting Ottomans
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| OT06 Ottoman Command standing painted by Toggy |
Some choices are binary - spend time painting on spend time blogging about the things you might paint!
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| OT01 Janissaries in full dress advancing |
So, it's been a wee bit quiet here for a few days but the brushes of Augsburg have not been idle. Both Toggy and I, between other parts of the range, have been busy painting Ottomans for the forthcoming CRISIS...
Ottomans on their way
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| Janissaries on campaign - two thirds of a unit minus Command |
They arrived at 1600 and are on their way to all the pre order customers tomorrow!
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| Which one wasn't speed painted? 2 x 45 minutes, 1 x 90 minutes |
Here is a taste of what is coming your way in the post. Codes OT001 - OT004 nearly sold out in the first batch so we are barely hanging on with those till we get reinforcements.
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| A base of... |
Council of War(fare) - Ottoman news
A unique event took place at Warfare Central this weekend. Clib, Toggy and I met to discuss the future direction of the Ottoman range and take stock of what will be available in 2018 and beyond.
The first six codes can now be ordered for shipping in w/c September 16, 2018
0T001 Janissaries in full dress advancing
0T002 Janissaries in full dress standing ready
0T003 Janissaries in campaign dress firing
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Gathering the Ottomans
A quick update shot of some Ottoman Janissaries in campaign dress - having photographed these for the website I'll be busting them off these little bases and getting them mounted up properly for CRISIS. Anyway, you'll get the idea.
We should have some solid news on the production volumes of these and the other codes from the first six sets very soon.
We hope also to be able to preview the Segban and...
Militia - all painted
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| various pikemen - Sedgemoor? Derry? Boston? |
It took a while but I finally got the lot painted and Toggy did some too! This post is just to illustrate the potential of these beautiful models.
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| Armed wth scythes, polearms and short pikes - Raparees? Huguenots? Town mob? |
I really enjoyed painting them - so easy.
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| The musketmen - each has 4 arm variants so multiply the horde by four and there is still no... |
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...