The League of Augsburg
Eighth Wonder? Texel ship diorama Part 1
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| I was almost incontinent with excitement on seeing this level of detail. |
I am an unashamed Naval Nut and always have been. It doesn't matter what the subject is, if its in the water and looks remotely interesting I'll be all over it.
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| Den Helder is home port to the Dutch fleet - Belgian frigate Leopold I in centre |
Having accidentally come across some pictures of the ship diorama at Texel about a year...
The Cock of the North, Part Four
Clarence Harrison- Well, that was fun! Running a game for players who have no experience with a rule set is always tricky. You can spend a lot of time bogged down in tedious explanations of mechanics and the minutia of the charts and discover that no one remembers it all anyway, or you can just dive in. I explained that the troops mostly use d6s or d8s to resolve their actions (a concept they WERE...
The Cock of the North, Part Three
Clarence Harrison - Turns five through seven saw the action heat up as both sides began to make more aggressive moves.
Sir Arthur attempts to dazzle his opponent with a double order deployment in hopes of confusing his foe...
Unfazed, General Hamilton responds by trying to blind his opponent...
In the center of the field, Captain Magill's Dragoons crash into the second squadron of Tyrconnel's Horse....
The War of Three Kings QRS
Clarence Harrison - We opted out of printing a QRS this time, but fear not you can have them absolutely free! Once you get a handle on the game, most of the rules you'll need are right here...
OMG! IT'S SIX PAGES LONG!
We got that with Republic to Empire and it somehow translated into causing some people anxiety. Let me head this off at the pass and point out YOU DON'T NEED...
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OMG! IT'S SIX PAGES LONG!
We got that with Republic to Empire and it somehow translated into causing some people anxiety. Let me head this off at the pass and point out YOU DON'T NEED...
A bad day to get man flu... BLB 3 hits the streets
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| this is a productive evening at the Warfare Office.... ah, a job well done - all in the out tray for this week |
Yup, I blame the Italians. I felt the tickle in a meeting in Milan on Tuesday morning and caught a look from my colleague - you ok?
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| From chaos comes order - Mrs H hard at work on the pre orders - at this rate there will be none left! |
By Tuesday night back in Brum I knew I was for it. The...
The Cock of the North, Part Two
Clarence Harrison- For the initial deployment, I placed the Foot of the Protestant Association in the village of Dromore, and left it up to the players to deploy their Horse and Dragoons as they saw fit. With Hamilton not yet on the field, Chris played Colonel Dominic Sheldon who had command of Tyrconnel's three squadrons of Horse, with Jim in command of Sir Neil O'Neill's two squadrons of...
The Cock of the North, Part Two
Clarence Harrison- For the initial deployment, I placed the Foot of the Protestant Association in the village of Dromore, and left it up to the players to deploy their Horse and Dragoons as they saw fit. With Hamilton not yet on the field, Chris played Colonel Dominic Sheldon who had command of Tyrconnel's three squadrons of Horse, with Jim in command of Sir Neil O'Neill's two squadrons of...
The Cock of the North, Part One
Clarence Harrison- I had the opportunity to run a pre-release game of Beneath the Lily Banners/The War of Three Kings for some friends last weekend. They hadn't played any of the previous versions and were unfamiliar with the period, though eager to give it a try - and I was eager to see what they thought. When trying to decide on exactly what game to run, I turned to the pile of scenarios we have...
Republic to Empire at 10 GBP!
As I am just about to take delivery of a large quantity of The War of Three Kings I need to make some space in the store. I currently have quite a lot of Republic to Empire after commissioning a hugely optimistic print run a few years back. Although the book sells well, I will be using the remaining copies to build a small housing estate if I don't do something with them now.
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| Typical French... |
The War of Three Kings - It's alive!
We have had a huge response to getting them all out will involve all of the little Hilton Elves being very busy.
A glass of fizz tonight and onwards!
Limbers for Field Guns
Clarence Harrison - Right, here's a proper limber this time - none of that dodgy strapping a gun to the back of the poor horse...
Obviously a field gun would be pulled by more than two horses, but in the same spirit that calls 18 men a battalion, I wanted to keep the footprint of the limber to a minimum for my usual 4x6' table. As before, the gun is not attached and was lifted from one of my field...
Obviously a field gun would be pulled by more than two horses, but in the same spirit that calls 18 men a battalion, I wanted to keep the footprint of the limber to a minimum for my usual 4x6' table. As before, the gun is not attached and was lifted from one of my field...
Amazing diorama work from Tactica
This French and Indian Wars diorama is truly stunning work. Scale is 15 or 20mm. The makers are a German team from somewhere in the north of the country.
I saw another piece of their work through photos which is an enormous Napoleonic diorama with several Austrian infantry regiments depicted on an 1:1 scale.. yes you read that correctly.
Enjoy!