More progress on my 'Old School' Prince August 40mm SYW figures collection. Quite a few added, the existing Austrian battalion was brought up to the 48 figs plus 5 officers on foot and one mounted, as standard in the 'Charge' rules.
One more 'blue' battalion added as above, plus two battalion guns.
Next was one Prussian battalion, the artillery still to be added.
I have one Prussian Fusilier battalion still to paint up, guns to cast and cavalry moulds ready to use.
Have a great day,
Dave.
Additional ECW Battalia completed for both sides, as usual based up for King and Parliament but will do for most rule sets.
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| Richard Bolle's Rgt (standard) Royalist |
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| Sir John Belasyse's Rgt (Pike only) Royalist. |
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| Sir Edward Fitton's Rgt (Pike heavy) Royalist. |
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| Lord Robart's Rgt (Large battalia) Parliament. |
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| William Constable's Rgt (Large) Parliament. |
I'm catching up with posting photographs of painted stuff so more to come soon.
Happy Easter if that's your thing.
Dave.
I'll get my excuses in now, we have got a new Tibetan Terrier (Nelly) after sadly loosing our dog Lexi just before Xmas so I have had neither the time nor frankly the inclination to port on here. The new dog is lots of fun but of course loads of work but well worth it.
Anyhow, I went over to Neil's place for a couple of weeks to game with his TYW 15mm collection and after a couple of sessions using the Twilight of Divine Right rule set by the Pike and Shot Society. Neil knows his stuff and recons the rules combine the accuracy and playability needed, he also has a great collection of figures as you will see.
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| Both armies lined up, Swedish to the top, Imperialists to the bottom of the picture. |
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| My Imperialist cuirassiers on my left. |
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| Swedish cavalry on Neil's left. |
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| My Cuirassiers piling into the mounted shot and sneaky Hussar types mooching around the flanks. |
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| Kind of ended up a bit of a stalemate on this flank. Rather disappointing as I had hoped for better. |
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| Neil's Swedes had the edge on the other flank. |
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| Like I said, very nice figures. |
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| The big push of pike in the centre, excellent Swedish Rgts vs large mediocre Imperial Tercios. |
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| It all started to go horribly wrong as the Imperial Tercios collapsed one by one. |
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| In the end my centre collapsed with the Swedish piling forward singing bloody Abba songs! Certainly met my Waterloo anyway! |
Good game,
Dave.
