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News From Baccus 6mm

Saturday, 11 February 2023 17:34

Written by Mike

Glorious Technicolour!

Welcome to the Baccus weekly update and the news that this week, the completed orders have reached the dizzying, nay vertiginous heights of #23530.

All of which moves us on to this week’s new release. To be honest, it’s more of a re-release in the form of our all new, full colour edition of our very popular Polemos Napoleonic rules.

Gone are the boring blocks of monocolour, to be replaced by glorious technicolour, all of which shows the 6mm eye candy off to best effect.

The Polemos series consists of a number of rulesets covering different eras, wll of which share some basic concepts in common but adding period specific details and mechanics. Polemos Napoleonic Wars is divided into two complete rules sets. The first, General de division, will allow the wargamer to fight battles with armies of up to corps size.

The second set, Marechal d'Empire, will allow the wargamer to refight the BIG battles of the period.

The same wargames figures may be used in both sets of rules, as the basing system is universal - only the nominal scale will differ. Polemos Napoleonics is aimed at enabling the wargamer to fight large scale actions; actual battles, rather than small scale skirmishes. Systems for firing, melee and morale are straightforward and easy to learn, but allow your troops to emulate the tactics used by their historical counterparts.

You can find all the details HERE

No new releases in metal this week, but that doesn’t mean that we are slacking. Here’s a photo of some castings currently occupying the mould maker’s desk at Baccus HQ. All of these are ‘patterns’ which well be used to make the new production moulds for the GNW Polish range that has been featured over the last three weeks or so, and the first of our Byzantine figures which are looking quite splendid.

We are aiming to have at least one of these ranges available in March, so not too long to wait.

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News From Baccus 6mm

Saturday, 04 February 2023 14:34

Written by Mike

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A little tank, some light armour and some armoured cavalry.

Welcome all the Baccus weekly update. I’ve a few bits and pieces to cover, so let’s get the immediate issue out of the way with this week’s order number reached, which this time is #23454.
With this out of the way, it’s time for the new releases of the week, and yes, you’ve guessed it, there’s a bit of a World War 2 theme to them.

We’ll kick off with a couple of British light recce vehicles; a Morris mkII light recce car and for those who really value novelty over effectiveness, a Beaverette mkIII light recce car.

And new we move over to those pesky Germans who can now field a 10.5cm leFH18/40 field gun. For those who remember the sitcom ‘Allo Allo’, we have Lieutenant Gruber’s ‘little tank’ in the form of an Sdkfz 222.
As ever, we’ve more from where these came from, but other ranges are also taking shape. The various bits and pieces for the new Great North War Polish (‘Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth’ to be more accurate but less concise), range are coming together nicely. Here’s another teaser, this time of the new Panczerny codes.

The full range should be out towards the end of this month, or the beginning of March. We’ll have these with us at Vapnartak this weekend for those who would like to seem them ‘in the flesh’ so to speak.
Talking of Vapnartak, if you still want to place a pre-order then you’re too late. Don’t let it stop you dropping by the stand and having a chat. For those of you reading this from some far-flung corner of the world and cursing the fact that you don’t have shows like this where you live, then now is the time to book a holiday in the UK in early July so that you can attend this year’s Joy of Six show, and help us celebrate its tenth anniversary.

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News From Baccus 6mm

Monday, 30 January 2023 10:06

Written by Mike

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Welcome to the Baccus weekly update, and what is currently a rare occurrence – the weekly new releases without any shades of olive drab, khaki or dunkelgelb. But more of that later, as it’s time for the order number update. This week we have reached the dizzying heights of #23380.

The first of this week’s releases is more of a new look for an old friend. Many years ago, Duncan Head introduced the wargaming world to the idea that Achaemenid Persian infantry formations consisted of a front rank of bearded chaps carrying very large shields (Spara) behind which they could stand and poke long sharp pointy things at anyone threatening them. This left all the subsequent ranks of bearded chaps to work in relative peace and hurl invective, javelins, rocks and especially arrows on those aforementioned threatening foemen. The subsequent formation therefore looked a bit like the photo labelled APE1. (See link)

The theory was backed up by very substantial literary and artistic sources and most rules writers incorporated these Spara formations into their army lists.

However, nagging in the background were reliefs from Royal palaces depicting Immortal infantry equipped with a distinctive dipylon shield, whose presence was never quite satisfactorily explained.

Over the years, the more traditional view of Persian infantry being more conventionally spear and shield equipped infantry has never quite gone away as my email inbox can attest. As a result we’ve formally given into the pressure and the result is APE2a -Immortals, Shield.

Carrying on with the theme of old friends revisited, I’m really excited to be able to release our new full colour edition of our Polemos Rules for the Wars of the Spanish Succession. The rules themselves are the same, but they presentation has been substantially upgraded.

For those of you missing your weekly fix of treads and tyres, normal service will be resumed.

Finally, please keep those order for Vapnartak coming in.
You know it makes sense!

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News From Baccus

Tuesday, 24 January 2023 12:25

Written by Mike

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Just your average weekly Baccus update

Welcome to another week and another Baccus update. As ever, we’ll start proceedings off with this week’s milestone of the order number which is #23298.

Before we get into the new releases for this week, I thought I’d share something of a behind the scenes process we are doing with the Baccus website. While we have the vast majority of our codes illustrated with a photograph, some of the photos themselves are not of the best quality. We are constantly looking to upgrade older images. This week, it has been the turn of the Dacians in our Ancients range. We’ve not quite finished this section, but if you check them out, we’ve replaced the two smaller images for ADA1 and ADA4 with the larger upgraded versions. We are working through the catalogue steadily identifying the older images and replacing them.

Our aim is to not have everything photographed, but also to be well presented and photographed

Of course, I would not be the end of a week without some new additions to the Baccus second world war ranges, and this is no exception. This week we are concentrating on British trucks and tows, starting off with a Morris Quad tractor, a Morris C8 tractor, and a CMP11 Radio Van.

Wrapping up this week, we have something that has received a number of requests, so I am happy to present our Stuart Kangaroo.

More to come next week, but I’ll finish off this time around by reminding you all to get your pre-orders for the Vapnartak in to us. Order early to avoid disappoint.

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News From Baccus 6mm

Saturday, 14 January 2023 11:15

Written by Mike

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Magic number, new releases, the Joy of Six and Vapnartak.

Another Friday, another week gone and time for another Baccus Magic Number. This week, we have arrived at #23191. With the formalities out of the way, it’s time for another batch of new releases. This week we have two offerings, both second world war British.
The first is the venerable 7.2” howitzer and attendant Scammel Pioneer tow.

The second, keeps with the Scammel theme in the shape of a tank transporter and attendant recovery vehicle.
Staying on the subject of new releases, we are nearing the completion of the redesigned Great Northern War Polish range. I’ll be releasing a couple more ‘teaser’ photos ahead of the big release, but just to tide you over, here are some Hussars that we made earlier…
Many thanks to all of you who contacted us about this year’s Joy of Six show. We’ve already had a great response, and a visit to www.joysofsix.co.uk will be rewarded by the list of mouth-watering games already registered.
If you want to put on a game at the show, or indeed have a trade space, please do get in touch. You will find booking forms on the Joy of Six website.

Finally, we have posted the list of shows that we will be attending on 2023. Vapnartak is the first one in our sights, and I will repeat my usual words of advice. If you are going to the show and know what you want to pick up, please get an order in to us. You can do this via the website shopping car, or just email or ring us with your list. You can then ensure that you get all of your goodies.