The League of Augsburg
A Guide to Basing - The Quindia Studios Way
Clarence Harrison - Which means lazy! I've gotten a couple of questions recently about how I base my models and I thought I'd detailed this here before, but... well, I couldn't find it so here you go. This is an easy method that still gives good results.
I mainly use three materials, fine ballast from Woodland Scenics, coffee grounds (the same as the mid-level texture on my terrain boards), and...
I mainly use three materials, fine ballast from Woodland Scenics, coffee grounds (the same as the mid-level texture on my terrain boards), and...
Limbers for Light Guns
Clarence Harrison - With everything else going on around here. I've got a pre-release BLB3 game planned for some friends in early March and I'm scrambling to gather together stuff I need for the scenario. It's stuff I've wanted anyway (like the unit of All Pike painted earlier this month), but the desire to put on a good show is a great motivator to get the lead out!
The scenario has reserve units...
The scenario has reserve units...
Beneath the Lily Banners: The War of Three Kings (PRE-ORDER NOW)
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| Pre order price £25.00/$40 ex postage |
Practice Race German Grand Prix 1694
Toggy and I ran the race today: 10 Turns, 4 competitors and all to play for!
The objective is to breach the French defences and capture their Marshal in the camp at the far end of the table.The game is played long ways on an 8 x 6. The player forces were as follows:
Imperialists: 4 squadrons of Drilled Cuirassiers
Prussians: 4 squadrons of Veteran Dragoons
Saxons: 4 squadrons of Drilled Cuirassiers
Bav...
Irish Militia
Clarence Harrison- One of the new things in Beneath the Lily Banners: The War of Three Kings, is the ability to model different pike to shot ratios on the tabletop. I'm running a game for some friends early next month and I had everything I needed for the scenario except a unit of All Pike. It's been on my 'to do' list for a while to paint a brigade of non-uniformed troops to use for the early war...
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...
Warfare Miniatures: Prussians and Danes 1700-1721
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| Danish Marching Command pack |
Clibinarium has been busy producing what I would describe as the 'bridge' figures between our Great Northern War and War of the Spanish Succession collections.
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| Prussian Command pack rear view |
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| Prussian Command Marching |
Primarily these codes were designed to complete the nations of the GNW giving us Swedes, Russians/Saxons, Danes and Brandenburgers /Prussians.
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| Prussian... |
Kurpfalz Feldherren Wargame Club, Germany
We meet up with the guys from Kurpfalz Feldherren at Tactica, Hamburg, Crisis, Antwerp and even at Partizan. They do wonderful games at least two of which have been featured on the blog before. Lovely bunch of people, totally into their hobby and it really shows.
This wonderful game was I think Juergen told me, inspired by some of the Donnybrook Dark ideas (well the town at least). I just love the...
Donnybrook in Sleepy Hollow, Part 2 - Converting Bokkenrijders
Cat Reddington-Wilde: This time we'll look at the foot sloggers.
Foot Mob #1 received head masks with twisted cloth goat horns, in the style of those worn by the mob in the TV series. Some horns are added with bits of green putty. Others are carved in. Figures that started with hats, I carved down the crowns to be head-wrap size and clipped off most of the brim, but left some bits of brim to carve...
Foot Mob #1 received head masks with twisted cloth goat horns, in the style of those worn by the mob in the TV series. Some horns are added with bits of green putty. Others are carved in. Figures that started with hats, I carved down the crowns to be head-wrap size and clipped off most of the brim, but left some bits of brim to carve...
Donnybrook in Sleepy Hollow, Part 1 - Converting Bokkenrijders
Cat Reddington-Wilde: Several of us at the Boston Trained Bands gaming club have been working on a big Donnybrook convention scenario to bring to Huzzah! in Portland Maine this May. And I have fantasies of bringing it to Crisis in November if I can sort out the logistics and financing…
Rewind to the beginning of the project: Last summer, I was searching for likely rules to use for a some Gothic...
Rewind to the beginning of the project: Last summer, I was searching for likely rules to use for a some Gothic...
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...