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Early 15mm Achaemenid army. I’ve fought using them a few times, generally if the Greeks don’t hang about and get stuck in thereby avoiding the Persians mass archery they will win. However the Persians can generally outmanouver the Greeks around their flanks so like most armies you should try to play to their strengths.
As I said, pretty boys but if handled correctly they are ok.
Dave.'The higher up the tree the monkey goes, the more of it's arse you can see'.
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The concluding part of the refight sees the pressure of the Prussian assault continuing and a valiant desperate charge by French cavalry trying to save the day.
A great time was had by all of the lads. If you guy would like to read the compleate write up then procede here
scrole down to read part one.
Dave.'The higher up the tree the monkey goes, the more of it's arse you can see'.
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Really informative Norm. This is a link to my DIY version:
http://thenorthumbrianwargamer.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Hex%20terrrain
The end result:
Dave.
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Well sod it, I’ll get the ball rolling and plonk some pictures on:
Phoenician Triremes & Quinqueremes.
Greek trireme.
Right, French 36 gun Frigate (At Quarters). Left, British 32 gun Frigate (At Quarters). Langton Miniatures.
HMS Dorsetshire, HMS Rodney and HMS Suffolk.
Dave.
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Two Prussian Corps based three to a base for Fire & Fury Francais rules:
French, note the Chasseurs as light infantry are two to a base as are all cavalry:
Photo of a game:
Many more pics here
Dave.
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Riever Castings 17th cent Monmonth figures:
With some Old Glory AWI militia thrown in for luck, should have clogs on but what the heck!
Dave.
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A French Demi Brigade, 1793:
French Rev is the crossover period between the 18th Century and Napoleonic types of warfare so you need to find or adapt a set of rules to cope with both. I use General De Brigade as a basis. First anyone interested must research the period they are into, whatever that period is. You cannot adapt a set of rules unless you know how the participents manouvered, fought and supplied their men. I would sugest ‘The Art of War of Revolutionary France’ by Paddy Griffith as a starting point but there are many more too numerous to mention.
Figure ranges, Eureka, lovely compleate range but expensive. Elite very nice, Trent Miniatures, Old Glory 1807 French Naps with bicorn (if you ignore the shorter coat tails).
Have a look here for info and pretty pictures.
Dave.'The higher up the tree the monkey goes, the more of it's arse you can see'.
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The final pictures of the (now compleated) French Imperial Guard:
Lets see what Bourbaki does with this lot!
Dave.'The higher up the tree the monkey goes, the more of it's arse you can see'.
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The Guard artillery compleated:
The colours are a bit off on the photographs but you get the idea.
Dave.'The higher up the tree the monkey goes, the more of it's arse you can see'.
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Norm, my hexes are 100mm face to face and are on a standard size table tennis table, The pictures all seem to be ok when I look at them but do tell me if anyone still has problems. Thanks for looking in at the blog, I couldn’t add much more to Neals comments and would agree that these are a great set of rules – give em a go, you’ll love em.
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A couple of additions to the 1st Guard Division French Imperial Guard 1870:
Artillery for the corps next.
Dave.'The higher up the tree the monkey goes, the more of it's arse you can see'.
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A bit more progress with the 1870 French Imperial Guard.
2nd Division 1st, 2nd and 3rd Regiments plus Guard Zouarves. Based as usual for Fire & Fury Frances:
No artillery yet, the rest of the Voltigures next.
Dave.'The higher up the tree the monkey goes, the more of it's arse you can see'.
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Thanks William, to be honest if I was starting compleatly from scratch I would stick compleatly to 10mm. The quality of the figures are excellent but primarily it’s to do with scale/space, you can game on a smaller table and can store the figures easily. We would all like to have huge 28mm collections but the cost and practicallity of it eludes most people.
Dave.'The higher up the tree the monkey goes, the more of it's arse you can see'.
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10mm but maybe you can find something useful amongst this lot:
Dave.
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I have always been fascinated by this period, mainly because of the continual changes in weaponry (both on land and sea) by the various nations competing for an often temporary advantage in firepower and then having to find the best ways of employing this weaponry to their advantage. Examples of this (as mentioned above), Chassepot Vs Needle gun Vs Prussian breach loading artillery and how the mitrailleuse was used.
All these figures are from the Outpost 1870 range, maybe not the greatest 15mm figures in the world but not bad and certainly one of the most comprehensive and complete.
Loads more photos and reports of games here:
http://thenorthumbrianwargamer.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/15mm%20Franco%20Prussian%20War
Dave.'The higher up the tree the monkey goes, the more of it's arse you can see'.
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Many thanks for the link James, really like your collection of Roman/Carthaginian ships, I’ve been gathering these Xyston 1:600 scale ships bit by bit for a couple of years and , like most things will get around to having enough for a game one day! They are fab models, very detailed, maybe a bit pricy but worth it.
The inspiration originally came from reading (I think) Don Featherstones book ‘Naval Wargames’, he used this scale had rules and black and white photographs inside which looked great rowing round various home made islands bashing into each other! I like the scale, you can pick them up without needing tweezers and look good.
The decking has to be ink lined in for the planking so that’s a bit fiddly. Could do with about twenty per side, so a few to go!
Dave.'The higher up the tree the monkey goes, the more of it's arse you can see'.
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