One more French Revolution unit done! Still with the easy pickings. Four Royal Artillery crew in campaign uniform to man an existing gun. The crew are more Prince August Prussians with some heads I made years ago. The gun is a Sash and Sabre (ACW) painted, well, before the blog anyway. Continue reading The Odds are Evening.
Not impressed by the Scots display, the English pressed forward to sweep the handful of Scots from the heights so they could press on to recapture the cattle and inflict a punishment that would be remembered for years. True to fashion, the Scots retreated as the English pressed forward so the Warden sent a troop of his Border Lances galloping forward. As they approached the … Continue reading The Battle of Darcrum Moor (Continued)
The cattle are long gone and the Scots rearguard have given the English cavalry a bloody check….so….. …why are they still hanging around taunting the English and their mercenaries to come on? Stay tuned! Continue reading Cum’on Ye Bunch of Sissies
Looks like a good haul, I hope they remembered to report to Customs and fill in all the appropriate paperwork. Uhoh, I guess not. That looks like the Warden in hot pursuit. Could be a fight brewing. Continue reading Cross Border Shopping 16thC Style
Have you heard of Hedgewars? What began as a simple attempt to clone Team 17’s Worms Armageddon has evolved into one of the most polished and community driven libre game projects on the scene. After more than ten years of continuous development the project is finally celebrating the release of version 1.0.0. Boasting full campaign support, several online multiplayer modes, full customization, and mod support, … Continue reading Watch out! Hedgewars releases long-awaited v1.0.0
I managed to steal an hour of hobby time today. (Bring on winter!) May and Huzzah! are coming and I only have four of twelve pledged French Revolution units painted. I should have started on one of the additional twelve figure infantry units I need but four artillery crew sounded easier. Got a ways to go yet but the weekend looks promising. Continue reading Lieutenant, Assemble your gun crew!
It seems that while I was distracted by Rosmark’s latest war with Schoeffen-Buschhagen, there had been some serious political shifts closer to home. Shifting alliances were not unusual during the Not Quite Seven Years War and in this case it seemed to me that something must have triggered a falling out between the Duchy and the Alliance on one hand and a reconciliation between the … Continue reading Digging into some Not Quite History
By Wednesday I had my head back in the right place, had cobbled the rules back together based on the decisions I had made last summer (and apparently forgotten despite rereading the blog posts!), and had the table reset. Once again the dice started rolling. On the Yankee left a thin screen of cavalry was assaulted by two brigades of Rebels and quickly driven back … Continue reading Here come the Rebs again!
The Tricornes have it! However, to reflect the votes for The War of 1812 (“with Indians“) and for what our southern neighbours like to call “The French & Indian Wars” (The term wasn’t in common usage in Quebec where I grew up.), and since I’ve been wanting to get back to my nascent colonial-ish NQSYW, over the mountains to Furland, setting, I’m going to set … Continue reading And the winner is?
Its looking like Tricornes are more fashionable than Kepis, Slouchhats and Shakos but there are a few hours left to go before the poll closes. Testing the improved Union Brigade & Regiment markings. The 1st Brigade’s Red Patch is more visible and distinct now that the regimental white Roman numerals have been removed yet the placement of the colour bar still clearly identifies these as the 1st … Continue reading The Final Hours!
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