The League of Augsburg
GNW Swedish units.. the long road since 1996
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| Foundry+ conversions + Dixons and Redoubt components - The Dal 1996.. sadly gone |
I have a nice archive of my GNW efforts form the time when there was pretty much nothing available, through various iterations to now when I am pretty much writing my own ticket with GNW releases.. a kind of fantasy come true.
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| Plenty of conversion work Ducker's Dragoons 1997 - the cape is milliput - still have these |
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The Warp Factor
A knee jerk response? I do hope not!
This piece picks around in the delicate minefield of borderline xenophobia. It has fermented through a series of conversations and exchanges which have on occasion provoked me to address the keyboard in an earnest fashion. Ironically the most recent was a conversation about the great British victory of Waterloo (not this Blog's core period but the straw which...
This piece picks around in the delicate minefield of borderline xenophobia. It has fermented through a series of conversations and exchanges which have on occasion provoked me to address the keyboard in an earnest fashion. Ironically the most recent was a conversation about the great British victory of Waterloo (not this Blog's core period but the straw which...
Eclectic Holiday post #1 AFVs I have known
Well, it is the holiday season and I do have a lot of pictures in my archive so I thought I would share some of those as wargamers often like to see the real thing as well as toys.
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| Sherman with long 75 - Utah Beach, Normandie - taken 2016 |
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| British Universal Carrier - Caen, Normandie - taken in 2008 |
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| M3 Half track - D Day Museum near Omaha Beach - taken 2016 |
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| Non penetrating hits on Panther glacis -... |
Solving a basing conundrum - GNW Russians
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| The original and traditional idea which of course, works! |
I was very much looking forward to this task but at the same time had some trepidation. I worked hard on the painting, I loved the sculpts and the poses yet putting them all together in a unit presented some challenges.
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| Marginal bayonet overhang - still a nightmare for my OCD |
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| From a slightly different angle |
The chaps thrusting their bayonets...
Battle for Britain Part 8.. In the North, it's complicated
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| Right Lads! Where are we stashing this blagged gear? The story from the North |
After a short interlude of news and other stuff we are back in 1692 Britain and joining the confused commanders about to do battle for their chosen King and take control of Britain...
In the three weeks running up to the weekender I sent campaign summaries to the commanders. The idea was to get everyone in the groove and...
500 not out! LoA blog's 500th post
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| Luddite? You bet! |
This blogging lark crept up on me. I am mostly definitely not the most social media savvy person on the planet and actively steer clear of Friend Face (IT Crowd reference!), 'The Twitter' (as articulated - BBC Radio 4's Today programme), Insta-grab, What's Occuring or whatever the non Welsh version is called... well, you get the point... I pretty much reject all these faddy...
New Warfare products - just in time for Christmas!
OK So we have a mix of great stuff on the run up to Christmas!
Some of it is available right now for shipping, some is to advance order as we'll have limited stocks for the first couple of months and we're giving our customers a chance to 'bags it' early.
Firstly let's introduce the new counter sets designed by the Harrison Brothers! The test sets we took to Historicon were a real hit and we sold...
Some of it is available right now for shipping, some is to advance order as we'll have limited stocks for the first couple of months and we're giving our customers a chance to 'bags it' early.
Firstly let's introduce the new counter sets designed by the Harrison Brothers! The test sets we took to Historicon were a real hit and we sold...
BLB GNW game - variations on a theme
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| Russian Battering guns pound the 2B BuA hamlet between turns 1-6 |
When Bob came over on Sunday for one of our rare games I decided to smooth out the last couple of amendments to the new version on Beneath the Lily Banners with some revisions to both hard cover target and SHAKEN rules.
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| The Russian Army |
I had been busily basing more Russians for the GNW during the previous week and decided it would be a...
Battle for Britain Part 7 - Players enter stage left
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| von Tettau, Marlborough and Tollemache left, Sarsfield, Hamilton and Berwick on the right |
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| The master view campaign positional map - players saw a limited view of this |
Over the...
Battle for Britain Part 5 - The Williamite troops
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| General Mackay's attack against Wauchope's French at Ripon 14th September 1692 |
Continuing the story of our Battle for Britain campaign with a focus on the Williamite forces participating in the war...
King William's forces were even more heterogeneous than those of King James. Dutch, English, Danes, Scots, Scots-Irish and French Protestant all contributed. Our commanders reflected this multi...
Battle for Britain Part 4 - The French
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| The experienced Regiment La Couronne |
Continuing the story of our Battle for Britain campaign with a focus on the French troops participating in the war...
Clearly the most important power in Europe and the grand puppet master of the continent Louis XIV had to have a key role in the battle for the British islands and the crown.
Since we allowed St Ruhe to survive the Battle of Aughrim and score a...
Battle for Britain Part 3 - the Jacobite Commands
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| The climactic Battle of Badon Hill |
Continuing the story of our mini campaign of the battle for Britain in 1692 created around an alternative history post July 12, 1691.
Creating the forces for each commander was enjoyable and challenging in equal measure. I had to think about balancing the number, quality, fighting style, weaponry and durability with the character of the commander and the player...