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AAR part 2.
http://olicanalad.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/battle-of-garigliano-battle-report-part.html
My whoring and daubing:
http://olicanalad.blogspot.co.uk/Hi Michael,
Thanks. They are Front Rank figures.
These are part of a soon to be finished (sometime later this year) Austrian army. The last of three armies (Austrian, Prussian and Russian) I’m collecting for this period. The Russians are finished, and the Prussians are just a few units shy of finished. I’ve just purchased the last units I need along with the start of a Napoleonic project, the latter will induce me to get these done ASAP so I can start something totally new. To show they do get played with……….
Here are is a shot of the finished Russian army:
The Russians fighting most of the Prussian army at a Zorndorf demo game
And most of the Austrians (done so far) fighting in a recent Chotusitz game
Hope you like.
My whoring and daubing:
http://olicanalad.blogspot.co.uk/Yes, one colour, or two colours as a “barber’s pole”, in livery colours if any, is a good choice. However some contemporary paintings also show lances in natural wood colour (= light ochre, not dark brown).
Yep, newly made. Would you trust an old one? Lances are probably a bit like conkers
My whoring and daubing:
http://olicanalad.blogspot.co.uk/In 1495, they were certainly painted in Italy. At Fornovo in 1495 Comines says the Italian men-at-arms
“casting away their light lances, which lay thick on the ground – but they are good for little, being hollow and light and weighing no more than a javelin, though they are prettily painted.”
I’m guessing that they would have been the striped “barber’s pole” style. From the tone of Comines, I’m guessing the French lances were plain. Personally, I paint all of mine because they look nice – painter’s poetic licence.
My whoring and daubing:
http://olicanalad.blogspot.co.uk/Last part of solo testing is done. A report, with pics and some interesting conclusions is in.
http://olicanalad.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/solo-testing-harran-1104-scenario-part_14.html
My whoring and daubing:
http://olicanalad.blogspot.co.uk/A report is in
http://olicanalad.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/solo-testing-harran-1104-scenario-part.html
My whoring and daubing:
http://olicanalad.blogspot.co.uk/I think we are in the same ball park.
This Zorndorf game had 1600 figures (from memory, roughly 700 Prussians Vs 900 Russians) and one player per side. The table was 14 x 6. It took about 7 playing hours, over two show days, for the two players, plus myself (umpire, extra hands to move stuff, and punter fielder) to fight to a satisfactory conclusion. I call this a big game. A gigantic game would be much bigger. This size of game is usually great fun. I used to think that a bigger game was always going to be a better one; now I think that games have an optimum size and this is at the upper end of that. Funnily enough, I think that more players often make games worse. I think that three or four per side is the absolute limit and two is optimum – more than that and the game tends to go at snails pace, one or two players get stuck with a boring table sector and, for some reason, simple discussions can become arguments (because you can’t please all of the people all of the time?).
My whoring and daubing:
http://olicanalad.blogspot.co.uk/For years, I used the 2 x 2 foot static grass tiles by TSS for my base board. There was the static grassed green side, of course, but I painted and stippled the blank side in household emulsion to do a ‘desert arid terrain’.
Works just fine. You can see both sides of the tiles in the pic below. It also shows the green side squexed for Commands and Colors. These days, I use a big green rattle can sprayed snooker baize for my ‘normal’ green table because it makes doing big hills easier.
My whoring and daubing:
http://olicanalad.blogspot.co.uk/
