Franco-Prussian War...

[Hertsblue]

Madness has finally set in.  I have now convinced an equally unhinged friend to join me (actually to do most of the work!) in preparing a set of rules which might allow me to use my Pendraken FPW figures for a new scale of game. I have done and reported on Gravelotte St Privat on a 1:60 man scale, but there are few other battles of that scale to do. So the idea is to look at doing a divisonal scale game on a 1:10 man scale, and 1" = 25yards.  A Prussian battalion would be up to 100 figures, which would allow company scale manouevres, and we would concentrate on a very different level of command, but still do a game with lots of figures and a number of players.  It might be some 1200-1500 figures a side, should look the bizz, and be very, very, different.  I'll let you know if it proves to have legs!


Mollinary

There was an article in Wargames Illustrated a few years ago by a guy who fielded 200-strong battalions in 6mm for, I think, SYW. The pictures were stunning, which is why I remember it. So, go for it, Molinary. We're all agog. 

[Le Manchou]

What is also great with this scale is that you can play many kind of very interesting small actions like scooting, assault of a camp by night, crossing, etc... and that the company level is more accurate, being the basic fighting formation.

[Leman]

Here are some photos taken around Metz in

[Leman]

Yes, well there's one photo of Stiring Wendel from the Spicheren heights. I'll have another go and see if I can supply a link to the actual album on http://s1101.photobucket.com/albums/g440/dourpuritan/Visit%20to%20FPW%20battlefields/

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Great photos - brings back happy and hungover memories of my tours... 

[Aart Brouwer]

I'm happily tinkering with lists and heading towards the inevitable part-with-cash-and-wait-for-the-postman...unpack-and-realise-I-need-more...rinse and repeat  

This.

It keeps me from quitting my job, selling the house to a friendly banker and the wife & kids to an Arab, retiring to a huge derelict farm with oodles of space and then buying the whole god**** Pendraken collection.

The three certainties in life: death, taxes and not-enough-Pendraken  

Cheers,
Aart

[Leon]

The three certainties in life: death, taxes and not-enough-Pendraken  

 

[cameronian]

Takes me back. I did the FPW battlefields with Richard Holmes in 2004, sigh.

[Dave Fielder]

Now that would have been a battlefield tour worth being on. I heard him speak on leadership when I was at Staff College in 2008 and he was a very inspirational speaker, sadly missed.

[cameronian]

Ah yes. Kept in touch after the tour, exchanged literature/references, always got a hand written thankyou. Such a gentleman.