On the list of games is to do a refight of Kesselsdorf 1745... this neat little book from Helion has been obtained..
Friday 26 July 2024
Kesselsdorf.. research ...
Thursday 25 July 2024
Game Planning...
I'm trying to get more organised planning games. With 8 active blogs it is way to easy to get focussed on one and loose the thread on the others. So I want to get some sort of game plan for each blog, each blog has a two or three threads or series of games so I want to cover these.
So far I've made up a table with a set of game lists, there are a few blanks but at least I can start working on scenarios.
The aim is to play a game relevant to each blog on a 'round robin' basis. I expect it may be more of a random walk 😀
Friday 19 July 2024
The Return of Saxe-Jarlsberg .......
Its been a while since the forces of Saxe-Jarlsberg tried to take the Hoflandt from Wittenberg. The 40mm home-cast armies have now been redeployed. What happened to the armies ?
- The 40mm Wittenberg army was upgraded and expanded to fight the Begovian threat on the Zinzendorf border.
- The 40mm Saxe-Jarlsberg army which were all Prince August castings fell victim to my delight in recycling figures via the melting pot of doom - most of them became re-cast as Begovians.
Saturday 29 June 2024
Duchy of Noverre - Cuirassiers and more infantry..
For SYW french troops for the Duchy of Noverre...
Cuirassier du Roi (My home-cast riders on Eagle Miniatures horses, flag from Kronoskaf)
Infantry Regiment Bentheim (Crusader and AW Miniatures; flags from Not by Appointment)
Wednesday 19 June 2024
Duchy of Noverre - Grenadiers and Cavalry Regiment
While planning and playing some French Foreign Legion games I got on with painting some more SYW French for the Duchy of Noverre.
Grenadiers Royaux de Chantilly (AW Miniatures, Flags Kronoskaf), decided to to have bearskins for the grenadiers rather than tricornes...
Cavalry Regiment Moustiers (My Homecasts, Flag Kronoskaf)
Saturday 20 April 2024
Extra staff & Command for the Duchies of Fenwick and Noverre
For the Duchy of Fenwick...
and for the Duchy of NoverreAll figures saved from job lots of figures I bought to go in the melting pot to cast some 40mm figures; horse are plastic ones from Wargames Atlantic.
Saturday 16 March 2024
Duchy of Fenwick - Hanover.. Cavalry Regiments...
Finally finished reworking the cavalry regiments ... riders all repainted, horses touch-in and new bases
Horse Grenadiers (mostly my home-casts, grenadier heads off some Jacdaw figures). Flag Kronoskaf
Cavalry Regiment 4A (mostly my home-casts, officer & std bearer Eagle Miniatures). Flag Kronoskaf
Dragoon Regiment 8 (horses my home-casts, riders Irregular Miniatures) Flag Kronoskaf
All together ....
Saturday 9 March 2024
Square Bashing in Lower Rutenia ... Magazine Article.
The battle of Mintano with Wittenberg V Begovia from the last Begovian War has been written up and was published in April 2024 Issue no 492 of Miniature Wargames.
Nice to have the 40mm imagi-nations armies in print. The article was a battle in itself, one of those ones which wouldn't coalesce into some semblance of order - I got there eventually.
Tuesday 5 March 2024
Duchy of Fenwick - Hanover.. Infantry Regiments...
The changeover to Hanoverian units continues ...
1) IR9B Jung-Zastrow. Figures mostly Jacdaw British 30mm, standards from Warflag
2) IR13A Halberstadt. Figures mostly Jacdaw British 30mm, with Front Rank heads, standards from Warflag
Friday 23 February 2024
Duchy of Noverre - Hussar Regiment Turpin
The first of the French SYW cavalry units for the Duchy of Noverre, regiment Turpin (using my own home-cast figures).
Thursday 22 February 2024
Duchy of Fenwick ... is going Hanoverian...
The Duchy of Fenwick is going Hanoverian ...
The Duchy of Fenwick's army has always been a melange of units. I gave them a Saxony 1730's makeover in red coats; when I added some light troops these were Hanoverian. The basing on most of the army does not match my plain green basing, so as I work through each units re-doing the bases they'll be converted to Hanoverian units.
A unit of jagers just needed the bases doing ... Freytag's jagers...
Tuesday 13 February 2024
Palace Rooms go 'Flat-Pack'...
In my ongoing quest for storage space the remaining palace rooms are going 'flat-pack', to save on storage space.
I have three rooms already which are flat-pack, plus four more which are not. The large entrance hall will not save much space if flat-packed so I'll leave that be for the moment.After a bit of trimming it went together...
As I'd got the hang of it I did the rest; so I have seven possible rooms that can be setup as need for story line pictures and all now taking about one of of the storage.
Sunday 21 January 2024
Kleinwein : the trap is sprung ...
continued from the previous post ...
Hofler & Givenchy, with a couple of the Irregulars, hurry down the edge of the vineyard to get in position by the road....
The surprise attack startles the wagon escort who panic and run back down the road, only to find more of the Irregulars in their path...after coming under fire, the local leader of the Brotherhood of Duhn runs to the corner building to get some help....some extra men turn out of the building to protect him...Count Zandeman hops the hedge and makes a run for it as the Irregulars try to get as many of the others as possible ....
Meanwhile in amongst the vineyard buildings the Brotherhood are trying to get across to the corner of the courtyard
and get embroiled in hand-to-hand combat with the Irregulars...
The Irregulars come of worst and the some of the Brotherhood escape ...
and make it to the safety of the woods ....
A sort of successful action, with the Brotherhood of Duhn's fur pelt smuggling operation closed down and all the illicit goods seized. However the escape of Count Zandeman and the local leader of the Brotherhood of Duhn will no doubt cause future trouble for the authorities.
- Brotherhood of Duhn - Started with 17. 1 captured; 10 wounded: 6 of which recovered and were imprisoned, with 4 that died; the rest escaped.
- Givenchy's Irregulars - Started with 22. 4 wounded: 3 of which recovered and 1 that died.
Tuesday 16 January 2024
On the way to Kleinwein...
continued from the previous post ...
The lady Irregulars had been investigating while Mlle Givenchy and Colonel Hofler were busy in Runtsdorf. They'd followed the robed figure back to a vineyard north of Runtsdorf called Kleinwein; owned by a poor noble family the Counts of Zandeman who resided at the small schloss nearby. On observation, they found that hunters were bringing in pelts of animals from the Sackwald forest and at the vineyard they were put in barrels for shipment elsewhere. Discreet enquiries in the area (including numerous inns and bawdy houses) gleaned the information that the whole scheme was run by the wolf chapter of the Brotherhood of Duhn.
---oXo---
In the evening a message arrived at the inn for Givenchy and Hofler; 'Ready to Move on target, meet by the windmill at Maltdorf just before sunrise'. The next morning Givenchy and Hofler slipped out of the inn and headed out of town ..
They met Lisette at the windmill and followed her towards their target, the vineyard of Kleinwein...They hurried on; they had to cross the river to meet with the rest of the Irregulars.....
not far ahead they could see the vineyard ....