Salute Continental Wars Society Battle of Nachod 1866

[Bernie]

Hi

Took a few minutes away from our game to take pics of splendid Battle of Nachod game by General John DZ & Andrew Brentnall (also forum members) who were highlighting their joint book on the Opening Battles of the War of 1866 in the Wargaming in History series.


http://s1213.photobucket.com/user/BernardGanley/library/Salute%20Continental%20Wars%20Society%201866%20Game


Figures from Pendraken and terrain from Realistic Modelling. Even able to take a pic of Leon with John!

[Leon]

Nice pics of a great looking game!  I'll be popping a link to these on the Salute thread as well.



I don't know how you managed to get that picture of me though, you must have used some ninja skills there... 

[kev1964]

beautiful  looking game and lovely figures, shame i couldn,t have seen it in the flesh but great to see the pic,s,

kev

[Hertsblue]

Great game with masses of well-painted figures. Enjoyed chatting with the guys and learned a great deal about Prussian and Austrian tactics.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Sorry I could only stop for a minute or two, busy day trading. Looked amazing! V cool! 

[nikharwood]

Very nicely done, Bernie 

[andyrob]

John/Andrew

What a fantastic looking game you had there at Salute. I came past a couple of times and had a good look. Sorry for not introducing myself. You both were fully engaged with other punters each time I came and my very British reserve prevented me from interrupting! I'm not at all surprised it attracted so many interested onlookers. But I regret not having more time to stay longer - the unforgiving demands of Salute I'm afraid and the peculiar way time always seems to disappear in a flash at Excel!!

I must say your book, which I have already started in earnest, after a quick look at all the pretty pictures I admit, is superb. I cannot recommend it highly enough to anyone who either already has an interest in the Seven Weeks War or who just loves the look of big battalions in 10mm. A public health warning to other forum members is in order though. If you look at the pictures on this forum your bank balance will be soon reduced and a lovely new book and lots of shiny new Pendraken figures will be winging their way to you!! But you'll be a happy man/woman when they arrive.

I have already started reorganising my troops to fit with the size of your units which are perfect for understanding/reenacting the lower-level tactics of the period armed with the book's 1866 revisions to RF&F. I am trying to be clever and do so in a manner that means I can also use the same troops for Bernie's "Trapped Like a Fox" which are the perfect counterbalance for grand tactical corps level and above fights and campaigns. I seem to have enough figures for 2 RF&F brigades per side with cavalry/artillery support. A few more might be in order then!!

Thank you once again for putting so much effort into both the book and the display game. I wish you every success and look forward to volume 2 on Koniggratz. Perhaps given the size of that battle it could run to volumes 2 and 3?!!

Cheers

Andy Robinson

PS I will keep my ears open for any news of a 2014 tour of the battlefields. I've already started saving!

[mollinary]

Dear Andy,

Thanks for all the kind words, sorry we did not get to have a chat.  You need to be more pushy, mate!    On the basing, you are doing exactly what I did. My initial armies were for TLAF, with the width of the foot bases reduced to 25mm because I preferred the look, and as TLAF is fought using squares of terrain, the exact size of figure bases does not matter. As long as you can get the right number of units in a 10" square.  The cavalry remain on 30mm squares, as do the artillery.  Why?  First, I didn't feel like rebasing them!  Second, they fitted the figures, particularly the new ones, very well.  Third, I rationalised it as reducing the number of bases they can get into combat with the infantry, whcih is no bad thing in this period. 

Best Regards,

Andrew

PS, If you have any questions post away!

[holdfast]

The Continental Wars Society is contemplating a tour of Bohemia in 2014, as is the Cultural Experience. If you are not a member of CWS you should join forthwith as it's the best £6 worth around today.
Sorry to miss you, I have no idea where the time went. It was the first Salute for years where I was not bored by 3pm. I didn't even have time to run the Nachod Prussian limerick competition: There was an old man called von Wnuck.....
Holdfast

[Techno]

Great pics !!
Cheers - Phil.

[barbarian]

Leon seems to be 17 years old.  

[Fenton]

I didnt imagine him looking like that

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[Leon]

Leon seems to be 17 years old.  

Indeed, one of the reasons I don't like pictures of myself... 

[fred.]

The camera does add a lot of years doesn't it?

[Hertsblue]

Better to look younger than your age than older. 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Better to look younger than your age than older. 

Not if they wont serve you in a pub.......

IanS 

[Hertsblue]

Not if they wont serve you in a pub.......

IanS 

Carry some ID. I would always serve a kid who could prove he was over age.

[Leon]

Carry some ID. I would always serve a kid who could prove he was over age.

It led to some interesting confrontations when I used to ID people and they didn't have any.  Even worse when they asked to see the manager and I was already standing there... 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

So der we wuz, many years ago in a pub called "The ring 'o Bells" in West Kirby, in school uniform, when two police officers walked. First asked a friend who was 18 for Id, he produced his passport, then asked me for some, I was 17, but had a full bike licence, and they didn't check the classes........

At that point they gave up and left.

IanS

[andyrob]

Dear Andy,

Thanks for all the kind words, sorry we did not get to have a chat.  You need to be more pushy, mate!    On the basing, you are doing exactly what I did. My initial armies were for TLAF, with the width of the foot bases reduced to 25mm because I preferred the look, and as TLAF is fought using squares of terrain, the exact size of figure bases does not matter. As long as you can get the right number of units in a 10" square.  The cavalry remain on 30mm squares, as do the artillery.  Why?  First, I didn't feel like rebasing them!  Second, they fitted the figures, particularly the new ones, very well.  Third, I rationalised it as reducing the number of bases they can get into combat with the infantry, whcih is no bad thing in this period. 

Best Regards,

Andrew

PS, If you have any questions post away!

Thanks Andrew. I am currently enjoying the book in the evenings over a bottle (or two) of Pilsner and no doubt will have some rules questions as I go. Like you I have already reduced the width of the infantry bases to 25mm. I prefer the look and it also fits with my home made square terrain using two different but complementary shades of railway mat to give a chequerboard effect which are around 9.6" square to fit my 7'x4' board. Could you let me know what depth your infantry bases are? The pictures in the book look like they are 15mm deep which I think gives a better impression with RF&F than my currently chunky 20mm deep ones. Unlike you I'm a sucker for rebasing lol!!

Cheers Andy