Pictures of recent play-test of "Home Before the Leaves Fall" early WWI corps level battles with Pendraken figures (of course).
Battle fought in mining district in Belgium in August 1914. Resulted in a German win with 3,000 losses v 5,500 French losses(1,500 pows)
http://s1213.photobucket.com/user/BernardGanley/slideshow/Home%20by%20Christmas%20Early%20WWI%20Armies%20in%2010mm/Franco-German%20Battle
Lovely stuff Bernie, thanks for posting that.
Tempted more by late war stuff - probably just as well for my bank balance. Possibly a couple of years to save up :-)
Fantastic looking game. Your stuff always inspires me!!!
Lovely looking game and remarkably good terrain. I find very early and very late WWI the most compelling to game, probably because of the opportunities for manouevre. (Can't spell it!)
Nice terrain and nice figures. Now, that's what a wargame should look like!
Top stuff Bernie. :)
Hi Ithoriel
For late war games see below of pictures of "Playing Leapfrog"
http://s1213.photobucket.com/user/BernardGanley/slideshow/Playing%20Leapfrog
Got to say that those are rather nice! Great stuff.
Nicely painted little chaps, the terrain pieces are fantastic -love the artillery bursts, spot on with them; but the stand out thing for me is the industrial building complexes -great setting and well painted. Puts some larger scale games to shame. First rate stuff.
Quote from: Bernie on 16 September 2014, 06:38:41 AM
Hi Ithoriel
For late war games see below of pictures of "Playing Leapfrog"
http://s1213.photobucket.com/user/BernardGanley/slideshow/Playing%20Leapfrog
Get thee behind me Bernie! ;D
Very nice stuff indeed. Very tempting.
I have WW2 Germans to finish, WW2 Russians to start and 6mm Sumerian armies to complete before I start WW1!!
Excellent, Bernie. I love the factory complex - first class.
Very nice...What rules were you using?
Hi Ithoriel
Yep WWII Eastern Front is an ever just out of reach period for me. I have painted and based enough Soviets to sink the proverbial Sverdlov cruiser, but just cannot get in the right mood to paint all the Germans. It will be done one-day - perhaps topic for next year?
Hi Fenton
It is for a set of rules that is provisionally called "Home Before the Leaves Fall" for 10mm as part of our range of 10mm rules.
Firmly set as corps on corps with big ground scale 10" = 2km to allow for approach march, reserves to be deployed and for artillery not to be unlimited range on the game table.
The terrain - the mines and industrial complexes were made by Keith Warren of Realistic Modelling
Quote from: Bernie on 16 September 2014, 04:50:49 PM
Hi Fenton
It is for a set of rules that is provisionally called "Home Before the Leaves Fall" for 10mm as part of our range of 10mm rules.
Firmly set as corps on corps with big ground scale 10" = 2km to allow for approach march, reserves to be deployed and for artillery not to be unlimited range on the game table.
The terrain - the mines and industrial complexes were made by Keith Warren of Realistic Modelling
Interesting...I do like the bigger scale games when it comes to WW1 ..I shall have a closer look
oops I just saw that you mentioned the ruleset in your original post
For all those gamers out there - I will be putting on a game at SELWG in October.
Should be able to do at least two games: German v French & a German v Anglo-French
See http://realtimewargames.webplus.net/index.html for future updates
Sounds great Bernie.
Quick question
What would each stand represent?...A company or battalion? or something else?
cheers
1 base = 500 bayonets so approx. 2 coys or 300 sabres or 2 squadrons or 12 guns = a couple of batteries or 3 French batteries
Had a chance to have a proper look at the photos now (after a quick look before work this morning). Really good looking game, as others have said the factory complex is particularly nice.
Interesting that these rules are a slight step up in size from GWSH (which has each stand representing a single company), and has a ground scale of 10" = 800 yards, so about half again, compared to HBtLF.
Quote from: Bernie on 16 September 2014, 09:33:42 PM
1 base = 500 bayonets so approx. 2 coys or 300 sabres or 2 squadrons or 12 guns = a couple of batteries or 3 French batteries
So that would mean 2 stands per battalion then?
Great stuff! :) I really like that industrial set-up. =D>
Hi Fenton
Yep 2 bases = 1 battalion. The unit is the regt of 6 bases for Franco-Germans and 8 bases for a British Brigade
Bernie,
This looks great, particularly Keith's terrain pieces and those lovely German flags! Glad to hear the business is going well, I love the innovative thinking in all your rule sets.
Mollinary
Hi Mollinary
Yes there is a second mine complex and he is just doing some roads for SELWG while I complete the figures
German flags are of course yours!
Thanks for your nice comments - I will let Keith know
Hi Bernie,
Not just the terrain and flags are great, of course, but the concept. This is what I think your group brings to the gaming fraternity - you analyse the key components of a period, and produce simple yet elegant rules to reflect that, both at the campaign and battle level. Your rules are tremendous value for money, and deserve a much wider audience.
Mollinary
Excellent looking scrap, Bernie
Hi Mollinary
After those kind comments - what can I say - "cheque is in the post!"
Hope to see you and John at SELWG?
See below for link to some pictures from SELWG 2014 of our early Great War game using Pendraken figures.
We did two battles:
2 Active German Corps v 2 French Corps and a cavalry division. Germans winning after 3 hours gaming losing 4,000 to 12,000 French
Active German Corps, Reserve Germans Corps and a cavalry division v 2 British Corps. The German Reserve Corps could make no headway against the British left, but the Active corps was able to give a good account of itself against the British right. Losses were 6,000 Germans v 4,000 British
http://s1213.photobucket.com/user/BernardGanley/slideshow/Home%20by%20Christmas%20Early%20WWI%20Armies%20in%2010mm/SELWG%20Home%20Before%20the%20Leaves%20Fall
Beautiful shots as always Bernie. 8)
Another great looking game. Shows off the scale to really good effect.
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Nice looking game, Bernie. Were you up on the higher level, by the bring and buy?
Yep next to Bring & Buy scrum