The League of Augsburg
The Great German Grand Prix 1694 - LoA TACTICA 2018
During the Nine Years War 1688-1697 many German speaking states fought as part of the Grand Alliance against Louis XIV’s mighty France. Although German troops fought in Flanders they also served in the Rhine lands and elsewhere.
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| Rough shot of how the GREAT RACE will look |
Our game is set near the Rhine. The army of the Grand Alliance wants to capture a heavily protected French camp lying at the end...
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!
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...
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...
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! |
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...
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...