The League of Augsburg
Warfare Miniatures: Prussians and Danes 1700-1721
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| Danish Marching Command pack |
Clibinarium has been busy producing what I would describe as the 'bridge' figures between our Great Northern War and War of the Spanish Succession collections.
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| Prussian Command pack rear view |
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| Prussian Command Marching |
Primarily these codes were designed to complete the nations of the GNW giving us Swedes, Russians/Saxons, Danes and Brandenburgers /Prussians.
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| Prussian... |
ECW /TYW Cavalry released
I am very pleased to announce that the three codes of ECW/TYW troopers are available in the shop.
Price is our usual for cavalry £8.50 per set of three horses and riders.
And, Here they are in all their glory!
Price is our usual for cavalry £8.50 per set of three horses and riders.
And, Here they are in all their glory!
GNW Swedish cavalry - gallop back to the field
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| CHARGING CODE 1 |
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| CHARGING CODE 2 |
In addition to the originally planned 4 trooper sets and two command sets we have two dragoon drummers! So, reinforcements we picked up on the way.
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| COMMAN... |
New product news from Warfare Miniatures
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| Set 1 - Lobster helmet, armour and swords |
ECW/TYW Cavalry
These three codes will be released sometime in January 2018. It has taken them a long time to reach the market having been sculpted bout five or six years ago.
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| Set 2 lobster helmet, armour and pistols |
There are currently nine sculpts eight of which are pictured here. The missing, pistol armed trooper in lobster pot belongs to set 2. In the...
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! |
A novel new offer - Mounted Officer and Cornet packs
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| Cornet from WLOA40 with a new right arm! (As Adam Murray) |
Over the years I have done many special deals for customers which have involved splitting packs to get various figures out. I have accumulated dozens of perfectly good cavalry models which cannot be sold in packs of three because one or more figures are missing.
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| Officer from WLOA36 as a brigadier of Horse |
I have featured many of my...
Feature- Russian Commanders
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| Shermetev, Menshikov, Repnin |
From existing paintings it is difficult to definitively decide exactly how a particular historical figure looked. Statuesque and heroic or pox faced and pot bellied? Hardly the latter considering the sitter usually commissioned the artwork and nobody wants to look ugly in a 17th or 18th century version of the modern pouting selfie!
We chose three colourful characters...
Warfare Christmas Cracker 2017
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| Oh, Oh! (or is that Ho Ho?) It's that dodgy bloke from the mall again.. |
So what do we have in store (literally) for Christmas.
Well there is the £100.00 GNW Brigade
It contains: 4 x 20 model battalions + 1 mounted Commander + 1 light gun with crew.
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| Each battalion contains 10 musketeers + 5 pikemen + 5 Command models |
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| Gun crews will be a random choice from the 3 different sets SA1, SA2 and SA3 |
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| One of... |
Lots of Dragoons
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| Painted as Hanoverian Dragoons - WLOA58 and WLOA60 |
I have been slow off the mark painting and basing my dragoons but the new codes have sold very well so far despite having no oxygen of publicity.
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| Painted as Enniskillen Dragoons 1689-1692 WLOA58 & WLOA60 |
So, time to give them a little ventilation and let everyone see how they look in nice units. Painted by myself, Toggy, Rob Goodier and Jim Masson...
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...
League of Augsburg game Crisis 2017
We had decided well in advance that our Crisis game for 2017 would be modest in size but pretty. There was no need to try and take a massive game by car to Antwerp as we already knew that Jon Sutherland would be running his monster Poltava game adjacent to our table. Running another GNW effort would simply have been overkill so we chose Flanders sometime between 1692 and 1695 for our effort.
Anothe...
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...