Great Northern War; first 10mm wargaming project

[collegialhoagie]

I've finallly had time to occupy our dining table for a test run of the Gå På wargaming rules with a smaller sized battle, vaguely corresponding with the battle of Helsingborg, i.e roughly equal amount of infantry (although the danish with a lot of veteran and elite regiments), and the swedish cavlary force larger than the danish. I really enjoyed the feel of the rules, the cavalry shocks and countershocks on both flanks felt really good, the big infantry clash at the end of the battle got pretty complex, but not to the point of becoming boring.

The right danish flank got crushed and demoralised very early, a blwo which the danish never really could recover from, their left held on for several charges and countercharges before finally breaking, the infantry clash was brutal, on both sides, but I decied that when the royal guard on the right in a partial square finally broke, the game was definitely over.

[DecemDave]

  

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Good stuff

[fred.]

Great looking game! You must be pleased to have got to the stage of having enough units painted to be able to play. 

[collegialhoagie]

Great looking game! You must be pleased to have got to the stage of having enough units painted to be able to play.

Thank you! Absolutely, it was a great feeling of finally seeing them on the table, well worth the 6 months of working on the painting. 

[Steve J]

Great game there and just the sort of size that would work nicely chez moi. Nice to see you units in action too .

[sunjester]

An excellent looking game and two nice armies.

[paulr]

Great to see them in action

Interesting having unit labels at the back of the table, makes the information readily available but doesn't 'clutter' the troop area

[Westmarcher]

Good to see them in action, at last (and after only 6 months)! 

Although these rules are sitting somewhere in a box, I've never played Ga Pa.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Superb
Really impressive looking game

[collegialhoagie]

Great to see them in action

Interesting having unit labels at the back of the table, makes the information readily available but doesn't 'clutter' the troop area

it was one of those things that I only realised while putting the units on the table. I had printed them out to be taped to the base but thought why not have a dynamic OoB on the table edge instead.... worked quite well really!

Good to see them in action, at last (and after only 6 months)! 

Although these rules are sitting somewhere in a box, I've never played Ga Pa.

Time to get them out then I've read people think they take some time to get used to because they do things a bit unconventionally, but people say that about ToTK too, and when you've gotten your head around it they work really well. I did not find them hard to follow at all to be honest.

I have two more rulesets I've yet to try out, ToTK and Beneath the Lily Banners, both looking quite intriguing, but Gå På will definitely be played again 

[mmcv]

Fantastic work!

[collegialhoagie]

Sorry for the worse than usual quality of the pics, I'm forced to use my phone as the battery charger for the camera is kaputt atm

Two finished units, the Danish Grenaderkorpset (Grenadier Corps), and the Livregiment Dragoner (Life Regiment's dragoons):

[paulr]

      

[fred.]

They look good - the photos came out very squashed when I viewed them on my phone last night, but look fine today on my iPad

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Superb work

[collegialhoagie]

Still having to use the phone camrea unfortunately, but here's some pictures of the Fynske hvervede infanteriregiment. I've painted sashes in a light blue since the colonel of the regiment, Albrecht van Eyndten had a light blue coat of arms, and practice in the danish army seems to have been that sometimes the colonel decided the colour of the officer's sash.

I've previously finished Upplands regemente, but since they're painted in the standard blue-yellow with different flag I didn't bother making a post for them.

[DecemDave]

 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Keep it up, excellent stuff

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Absolutely splendid