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Sunday, April 15, 2012

Ottoman Janissaries in Egypt 1798

Club night tonight and as usual players are lining up to have a crack at the Ottoman Turks. However I have been busy over the Easter break and have completed my first unit of Janissaries to bolster the Ottoman Egyptian forces.

The figures are from the Assault Group Renaissance range, I have copied the uniform details from Charles Grant's Napoleon's Campaign in Egypt. The plate describes the uniform of a standard bearer, based upon from the information of Colonel Elting.
The figures from TAG are perhaps a little to early and in future units I might consider removing the plumes, but these will serve as an elite unit and bolster my foot forces which is largely made up of what is called in polite circles rabble. You can read about how they perform in the coming days, over at the newly launched Wyvern Wargmers shiny new website, formerly the Evesham Wargames club, we have been going through a make over recently to grow our club membership.

You can find us at our new home.


All feed back welcome, drop in and say hello.
Posted by Stuart S at 16:37 3 comments: Links to this post Labels: Napoleon in Egypt, Napoleonic, Ottoman Turks, The Assault Group

Platoon Forward for Napoleonics

Joe Legan wrote the excellent Platoon Forward which is a character based campaign system that allows you to add and extra layer of personality to WW2 skirmish gaming.
As soon as I had read the introduction I knew it could be used in a number of other periods, Colonial through to Horse and Musket.
Very often our Skirmish games had been stale encounters with little context of the wider campaign, players would through their troops against impossible odds because it was the last turn of the game.

Platoon Forward has changed that, our lead heroes have some depth they react differently based on their character traits, perhaps the biggest changing to our skirmish gaming is the use of the scenario generation rules and the incorporation of enemy blinds, common through out all of the Too Fat Lardies Rule sets. You never quite know what you will be facing or how many.

We have adapted the Platoon Forward tables for our Zulu War games through to the current encounters set in the age of Napoleon. Our inhouse adaptions can be found below.

Type A Blinds

Type B Blinds

Type C Blinds

When generating Friendly supports the following should be replaced.
Artillery replace with Cavalry.
Armour replace with Field Artillery.
Light Support replace with Skirmish Section
Engineers replace with Veteran or Guard Section
Anti-Tank Gun Replace with Field Artillery.

Platoon Forward is a fantastic system that presents club players or the solo player with a hidden enemy that can change from game to game. Running in at £7.00 it has given us one of the best returns in a rule set for a long while.
Posted by Stuart S at 07:07 No comments: Links to this post Labels: Platoon Forward, Too Fat Lardies

Friday, April 06, 2012

Renaissance Imperial Spanish Infantry.

With a hobby like our's it sometimes difficult to decide what comes first in terms of inspiration?
In this case it was definately the look of shiny metal.
The past few weeks have been spent reading up on the Spanish Armada and the campaigns of the Spanish in Flanders. Having just finished the last of Foundry's Swashbucklers, I thought I would turn my attention to the Spanish. These could be used for Italy, The Netherlands, France, Ireland, Africa or the New World.
I have some ideas on how I can pull all of this Renaissance stuff together and you can guarantee it will be a little off the beaten track.

As always comments welcome.
Posted by Stuart S at 13:32 5 comments: Links to this post Labels: Elizabethan Warfare, Foundry

Sunday, April 01, 2012

Pike & Shot & Zombie AAR

The survivors are being pursued by Spanish forces when they reach a deserted village if the survivors are to have a chance of survival if they reach the ferry and cross the river.
The path that leads down to the river crossing, passes through a deserted village. Which has the stench of death about it. Who knows what the Pope has sent to this land to drive out our good Queen. The Southern end of the Village View from the Ferry and safety On with the game.... Daniel Fanshaw holds his ground on the jetty as he stands ready to face the undead horde as the others hack at the rope attempting to free the vessel. 

Posted by Stuart S at 23:04 5 comments: Links to this post Labels: AAR's, Elizabethan Warfare, Foundry, Mantic Games, Pike Shot Zombies

Spartan Games - War of the Worlds?

Saw this announcement this morning from the guy's at Spartan games now it could be an April Fool, but it did spark me to revisit my War of Worlds collection. Many of the models peices have been in  hibernation for several years, but dusting off the storage boxes, it has pushed a number of unpainted items on to the paint table.......

They're Coming... Tripods from Black Hat Miniatures, Cylinder man from a tube of matchmakers. "With the red weed taking hold the Martian's emerge." "The Thin Red line, faces a new foe" "Bows and Arrows against the lightening"

I sense a club game coming on......
Posted by Stuart S at 09:57 No comments: Links to this post Labels: Blackhat Miniatures, Spartan Games., War of the Worlds
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