The League of Augsburg
The Guns of August 2018, Sunday
Whew! Third game went totally different from the previous two. Though the Jacobites did manage to get all of their plunder across the ford (in eleven turns.. don't tell Dannie), they were slaughtered to a man save several units of horse who retreated in good order from the field.
Mike 'Fat Bastard' MacNeill captained the Williamite assault while the dynamic duo father-son team of Rob and Justin...
Mike 'Fat Bastard' MacNeill captained the Williamite assault while the dynamic duo father-son team of Rob and Justin...
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
 |
| 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...
Ottomans - keeping them coming!
 |
| 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.
 |
| One more figure to add to the Campaign dress firing code |
These are speed...
Ottoman news! - they'll be with you very soon
 |
| Only one of these models took me more than 45 minutes to paint |
Things have progressed so much quicker than we dreamed possible. We have six codes mastered and these should all be available in production quantities before the end of August.
 |
| Castings now exist! pre cleaning and snapped in bad light with an iphone. |
This means, we will take email pre-orders from the publication of this post for the six...
Lots of New 28mm Releases & Partizan -10% discount
 |
| P04 Prussian musketeers firing |
We have so much new stuff that I have not been able to get it painted and photographed for the web store.
 |
| P05 Prussian musketeers loading and priming |
 |
| D05 Danish musketeers loading and priming |
 |
| D04 Danish musketeers firing |
New Prussians, Danes and Volunteers/Militia are cast and in stock here is a list:
D04 Prussian musketeers firing
D05 Prussian musketeers loading and...
White-out at Aspern-Essling - reflections on Claymore
 |
| When I faltered, members of the gaming public were there to remind me of what I'd written in the rules - nice! |
We do other stuff... a lot of people know that (in my best Maurice Micklewhite parody).
 |
| Toggy's nice pontoon bridge is underneath the French transport! |
Toggy keeps a painter chained to a radiator somewhere in order to achieve the volumes of Austrians he has amassed over the passed three or...
Another book offer from Helion & Warfare!
We are delighted to announce that Helion & Co would like to offer followers of this blog and customers of Warfare Miniatures UK and USA a super opportunity to purchase
The Swedish Army in the Great Northern War, 1700-1721
by Lars Ericson Wolke
at a special discounted price of £15 + shipping. This is a 25% discount!
All you have to do is email charlesjsingleton@yahoo.co.uk and title the mail 'Great...
by Lars Ericson Wolke
at a special discounted price of £15 + shipping. This is a 25% discount!
All you have to do is email charlesjsingleton@yahoo.co.uk and title the mail 'Great...
Assassin's Creed - no really!
 |
| The Fortress of Monteriggioni as seen from the south west |
It is fair to say that Tuscany is full of history. It is also fair to say that I don't get much time for life- consuming, first-person role play or platform games for the XBox, PS4 or 5 or 6 or whatever is the current iteration.
 |
| The aspect facing approaching Florentine troops - north facing gate |
With this kind of view you are doing WHAT?
 |
| 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...
Danes and Prussians -yes they are available
 |
| P02 Prussian Grenadiers Marching |
D01 Danish Musketeers marching
D02 Danish Grenadiers marching
D03 Danish Command marching
P01 Prussian Musketeers marching
P02 Prussian Grenadiers marching
P03 Prussian Command marching
What has been holding back the release of certain codes over the last couple of months was not just the backlog of...