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News From Baccus 6mm

Saturday, 30 September 2023 09:10
Written by Mike
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Great Northern War Russians
29th Sep 2023

After last week’s paean lauding the virtues of England’s Steel City, it’s more of a prosaic piece today. ‘Why’, asks one of my regular customers, ‘Do you always announce new releases the day before a wargames show? Even if I know I am going there, it never gives me chance to work out what I want.’

‘Fair enough’, says I, ‘Let’s see what I can do’. And so, this week will see the Partizan show releases available in time for you to actually order them for the show. What a brilliant idea! However, before we get on to all of that excitement, it’s time for a bit of housekeeping in the shape of this week’s order number which stands at #25601. (The usual caution applies that a couple of orders prior to this will miss the cut and will go out next week.)

The big news for this week is the full release of our resculpted and expanded Great Northern War Russian range.   These models replace what was one of the oldest set of sculpts in our catalogues and they bring the Russians bang up to modern standards.   We’ve finally added Horse Grenadiers to the range,

which should cheer the hordes of people who have requested these chaps over the years.  Another oft-requested code is the dismounted dragoons wearing Kartuz.

As befits an overhaul of the figures, we’ve also taken the opportunity to update and expand the range of flags available.  The existing sheets have been redesigned from scratch using vector format, which gives a much sharper and more detailed end result.

We’ve also added extra sheets covering Strelzy regiments, the 1712 pattern colours for the infantry, and the pre-1712 pattern Dragoon colours.

As with all of our Polemos ranges, we have army and booster packs available, and a boxed set.

All are designed for use with our own GNW rules, but are perfectly suited to other systems.   The Russians are also matched with a Swedish force for one of our popular ‘Matched Pair’ sets.

These figures will feature in one of our ‘Showcase’ videos in the future, but to get an idea of what you can expect, follow this link to check out the video on their Swedish opponents.

If you would like to order some of these little beauties, or indeed anything else  for collection at Partizan, you now have no excuse.   You have the time, so use it well!

Finally,  it wouldn’t be a weekly update without a little tease, so here is a cheeky image of some things that will also make their first appearance at Partizan.  More details next week…

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News From Baccus 6mm

Monday, 25 September 2023 13:23
Written by Mike
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Bit of a ramble this week, but do keep reading...

Sheffield is the home of Baccus 6mm and we are steadily changing our packaging to proudly feature the coveted 'Made in Sheffield logo.

It’s a city inextricably linked with the Steel industry and the manufacture of cutlery. If your only contact with Sheffield is the wonderful film, ‘The Full Monty’, then your impressions will be of a depressed and run-down place of grime and despair. However, the truth is very different, as our home town is a vibrant bustling place and surprisingly green. Very green indeed, with the highest ratio of trees to population of any city in Europe. If you don’t believe me, try looking at the place on Google Earth.
All of which brings me to the point of this ramble, as driving to work this morning, it’s very apparent that the green leaves are steadily changing colour to a riot of oranges, browns and yellows. Yes, Autumn is upon us, and for the UK at least, that means that the busiest time of the year is upon us.

Between now and December we have five wargames shows over a period of just nine weeks. And that is why you will read posts from me repeatedly asking you to get your orders for collection in to us, preferably in good time. It helps us, as we can make sure that we cast things that will sell, and you because we have things to sell that you want. As the saying goes, ‘What is there not to like?’
We have a full slate of new releases to come over the next few weeks, but before more news on that it’s belatedly the time for this week’s magic order number, which stands at #25538.

So. what’s new? The first set of releases will be the GNW Russians. We’ve nearly completed all the required moulds in anticipation of their debut at the Partizan show, but here’s a couple of previews as we introduce some dismounted Dragoons in Kartuz and the Russian Generals. These really are gorgeous sculpts, full of character and animation.

So what comes next? Staying with the GNW theme, the sculptor is already hard at work on a some cavalry to complete the Ottoman range, and these are expected to appear later this year or early 2024. However, before then, our long-term programme of improving older ranges continues. This time it’s the turn of our dependable, but elderly Successors figures. As is our policy, we’ll not just be replacing the older sculpts, but adding to the existing codes. I will be posting some previews in the coming weeks, and I don’t think you will be disappointed.

As you saw in last week’s post the WW2 range is set for additions and we’ve just had some masters arrive for the next tranche of aircraft. In addition to all this, there is a surprise little project waiting in the wings and, wonder of wonder, a brand new addition to our Polemos publications stable.

All of this, and we’re already well into planning for 2024…

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News From Baccus 6mm

Friday, 15 September 2023 19:02
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Coming soon to a Baccus shopping cart near you!

I’d like to start this week’s offering by thanking all of the organising team and club members who were involved in the Colours show last weekend. It was really well organised by a team working what is not the easiest of venues to manage. Well done!
Moving on to the housekeeping, this week’s magic order number is #24583. A combination of staff holidays over August, plus some days lost to illness put us behind schedule, but a real effort by the casting team has seen much of that backlog cleared and we are now well on track with getting orders turned around in a reasonable time.

Last week’s Ancient Sumerians has proved to be popular one, and we have got more late bronze age releases planned. However, the next lot of new castings will be from later periods. We are finally getting around to completing the overhaul of the Great Northern War Russian range. There are a lot of goodies in the pipeline, and we are aiming for release of these at the upcoming Other Partizan show in Newark next month. Here’s a preview of the Grenadiers, both on foot and mounted.

We’ll also be releasing a suite of new flagsheets to accompany the figures – in this case for the Dragoons.

Work on the ever-expanding WW2 range continues and after taking a few weeks off over the Summer, you can expect us to be turning the taps on again in the coming weeks.
Here’s a look at some of the goodies that you can expect to see.

As mentioned above, we will be at the Other Partizan show in Newark which is a mere three weeks away. It’s therefore time to get those show orders into us to avoid disappointment.
You can order via our shopping cart, by email or by calling.

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News From Baccus 6mm

Friday, 08 September 2023 09:51
Written by Mike
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New Release: The armies of Sumer and Ur
7th Sep 2023

As I’ve telegraphed over the last couple of weeks, our latest range goes all the way back to the beginnings of history. Some 6000 years ago, the area known as Mesopotamia became home to a remarkable civilisation that we generally call ‘Sumerian’. It was a civilisation of city states and saw notable innovations ranging from intensive agriculture, irrigation, an organised religion, architecture, literature and written records.

However, these advances also brought with them an inevitable series of rivalries between the various cities, and as they jockeyed for position, the innovations also included organised warfare, wheeled combat vehicles, regular formations, siege warfare and a general tool kit of ways to inflict bodily harm on the representatives of rival cities and ethnic groups.
Although our knowledge of Sumerian warfare is necessarily limited by the sheer number of years separating us and the lack of sufficiently detailed records; a successful king would boast on the numbers of enemy slain, the amount of loot taken and occasionally the imaginatively nasty way of slaying prisoners, there is very little of the nice details that we wargamers thrive on. However there are two excellent pictorial references upon which we can base our concepts of appearance and fighting methods. These are the Stele of Vultures and the Standard of Ur.

I would strongly recommend having a look at these pictures from the past. They offer a fascinating insight into what can, at the same time, be both a familiar and completely mystifying people.

Our new Sumerian range has included all of the options that we feel cover the major interpretations of the Sumerian way of war, and we have also put together an army pack for the popular Hail Caesar rules.
We will have all of the codes available at Colours this coming weekend.

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News From Baccus 6mm

Wednesday, 06 September 2023 16:21
Written by Mike
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I am very pleased to able to say that, at long last, I have finally completed and posted another Baccus Showcase video. The subject of this presentation is our Seven Years War Prussian range. I often think that this is an area much-overlooked by wargamers who are tempted away by the glamour of the Napoleonic wars.

This follows the same format of the others in the series and includes a quick step by step painting guide.

I do enjoy putting these together, but their release is subject to how much time I can devote to them during the working day, so the rate of release as high as I would wish. The script and structure for Showcase number 5 is already done, and this will over the armies of the Polish and Lithuanian Commonwealth of the late 18th and early 17th centuries.

You can view the new video HERE 

If you’ve not seen any of its predecessors, they can all be found HERE

Enjoy!

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