SYW Honours of War using 10mm

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Artillery jenga? That's a new one for the Pendraken Xmas party!

[Leman]

Some photos of the set up for the Barry Hilton scenario 1 for HOW. Scenarios are available on the Honours of War website. As the rules have been devised with the author's 28mm armies in mind, the same scenarios for 10mm figures can be done on half size tables (I use the 15mm QRS as my unit frontages are 100mm, i.e. 4x25mm frontage bases. Consequently this particular scenario is on a 3'x2' table, marked out using masking tape. This will be the first game to be played in my newly completed wargames room. As yet not much to show for the Prussians as most infantry units are one base short as I rapidly produce battalion gun bases. These are not essential in HOW, but in 10mm I think they look really good on the end of a unit. Three pictures show Austrian battalions, the third being the Croats holding the churchyard.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Very nice Leman, GOOD SET UP!

[Techno]

That's really impressive.
Super stuff, Bob !

Cheers - Phil

[Last Hussar]

#1 son is basing 4x2 men, 4 bases to the battalion. This should work for both BP and HoW

[Leman]

Should work LH. I was previously playing Black Powder with exactly the same armies. In HOW the key is inf/cav unit frontage, which should be roughly the same as inf in line movement and normal musketry range. In 28mm unit frontage/musketry is 200mm. In my 10mm units it is 100mm. This equates to the 15mm QRS for ranges/movement etc. It also reducesl the grid squares on the scenario maps to 6". Mind you, how spectacular would this battle be in 10mm, but using the 28mm frontage and 1' grid squares.

[fred.]

Great looking game - everyone is putting out some great looking army photos tonight!

[Last Hussar]

Meant to say 30mm bases - so 120mm lines

If he doesn't put the 3pdrs in the line, can they be used as light guns, or are they really a bn gun?

[paulr]

A great way to christen the new wargames room

[jambo1]

Lovely looking game.

[Steve J]

Very, very nice indeed

[Leman]

Meant to say 30mm bases - so 120mm lines

If he doesn't put the 3pdrs in the line, can they be used as light guns, or are they really a bn gun?

I have retained some 3pdrs with 3 gun crew only to use as light gun batteries.

[Westmarcher]

If not too late LH, could consider 25mm / 1 inch square bases like Leman and myself. That way if you use rules with measurements in base widths, an ordinary ruler / tape measure will do.

Great set up (as usual), Leman. And a new war-games room too! Posh! 

[Leman]

Not a dinner party man, and I can get a dining table in the kitchen, so who needs a dining room.

[Womble67]

Very nice setup

Take care

Andy

[Bodvoc]

Very nice set up. Does your new wargames room still have to double up at times for visitors to sleep in, children to party in, wife to hang washing in etc... or is it a real, full-time wargames room?

[Leman]

It's the real McCoy (damn it Jim I'm a divorcee not some young married guy with yowling kids}. One bedroom houses the lad and his lady, there's mine, a spare room and a small one doubling as office and wargames library. The Wargames room houses my painting desk, storage, a 6'x4' table and a comfy leather chair so it can double as a den. I also have my Sonos speaker in  there. After 18 years of full time education and then 37 years on the other side of the desk I reckon I deserve it.

[Bodvoc]

I would say well deserved too and I hope to be in a similar position myself in 4 years 3 months and 1 week, not that I am counting1

[Leman]

Here's to you Bod.

[far4ngn]

Do the Honours rules allow for figure removal or are the same as Black Powder?