The League of Augsburg
Weather beaten? Tangier, March 5th 1666
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| The game set up looking from the northwest with Sir Jeremy Smith's ships in the foreground |
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| With most ships becalmed the galley Qdis races away from her squadron |
Turns 1 - 4
The battle began with the wind dropping and every ship bar the galleys being becalmed. These two vessels pulled away from their squadrons and the currents gently carried the English ships inshore whilst pushing Abudullah’s and...
Wargames Illustrated walk through of With Talon and Claw game
Here is a link to a video I recorded with Dan behind the camera a couple of weeks back. Mark Shearwood played Dan in the game which will be featured in Wargames Illustrated in a forthcoming issue.
Wargames Illustrated - With Talon and Claw interview
Your participation if you wish it....
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| English: From left: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 5th galley-frigate |
I mentioned previously that it would be fun to get some small fleets together chosen/owned by blog visitors and that I would where possible, fight out randomly generated actions and feed back the results. If lots of people participate then the game load may get onerous and your fleet may not see action too often but, we can only...
Weather beaten? Part 1 intro : Tangier... but not as we know it Jim!
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| A representation of Tangier harbour in 1666. The shape is roughly that of the modern port as seen on various pictures |
I have gazumped that project with an extension of my Dutch Wars naval adventure. As I always do, I try and stretch any project...
Foulness - what did I learn?
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| The blue markers indicate ships which have fired and which will need to pass a reload check before firing again. |
Firstly I learned that I enjoy naval wargaming as much as I did when aged nine. Then gaming involved hand-drawn and coloured plan views of Napoleonic men o'war which sailed round my blue bedroom carpet using a rule set borrowed from the public library. I have such fond memories of those...
The Battle of Foulness, 1st May 1672, Part 2 - Battle report.
Returning to the Essex coastline to bring you the news from the fleets... whether you align with the Dutch, English or French... here it comes.
Turn 5
Many vessels, feeling they had the advantage of opponents in gunnery duels, attempted to back sail and hold position to secure victory. The Ruby, surrounded and taking heavy fire, was shot to...
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| The most dramatic moment of the battle seen from the north. |
Turn 5
Many vessels, feeling they had the advantage of opponents in gunnery duels, attempted to back sail and hold position to secure victory. The Ruby, surrounded and taking heavy fire, was shot to...
The Battle of Foulness, May 1st 1672 Part 1 Battle report
The war between the English and Dutch intensifies with King Charles' fleet desperate to expunge the shame of 1667 which haunts the navy, torments national pride and the authority of the Crown.
Dutch admirals are brazen and bold and have little fear of probes and forays into the very heart of home waters. One such 'cruise' is moving down the English coast off Essex and appears to be heading into the...
Swedish regiments... can't leave those Blues out!
To balance things out having shared pictures of the Russian forces massing for Crisis 2019 I thought it only right to get the Boys in Blue in front of the camera too.
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| Vastmanland Regiment |
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| Skaraborg Regiment |
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| Tremanning Regiment |
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| Narke Varmland Regiment |
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| Liv Dragoon Regiment |
Spoiling myself
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| Thick of the action at Foulness. |
Work has been pretty all consuming of late and I have been promising myself a gaming treat for a while merely as a little carrot to keeping me wading through the grind. The naval rules have been growing in detail and feel and during my travels. A point system and some of the random elements which I like to incorporate in rule mechanics to remove player control have...
Tales from the riverbank (Medway) - revisiting the battleships
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| Remember these? I moved to V2 for each |
I very much enjoyed customizing the Tumbling Dice models for the large English men o'war 'in ordinary' which I have shown previously in some posts. The more work I do with these 1/2400 models the more confident I get in the scope of conversions.
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| V2s in the rear V1s to the fore |
I was very happy with the versions I did until I thought about simulating their...
Media work
Been busy talking to some media moguls in the hobby over the last couple of weeks. I did a podcast interview for Henry Hyde's Battlechat Live 32 which seemed to fly by but actually lasted two hours. Well, Henry and I are never short of a word or dozen and the experience was candid and interesting. He has a nice interviewing style which opens the interviewee up before they know it. Henry is a...
Lots of lovely Russian regimental packs
I set up quite a lot of re-shoots for some of the items in the shop whilst photographing some new products. I am working my way through Russian unit deals so here are some of those which are now available in the Warfare Miniatures shop combined with some existing products revisited:
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| Russian two-gun battery with field guns and wagon @ £40 |
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| The popular RB1 Russian infantry in tricorne firing and... |