Gentlemen.
I am at a crossroads. I have purchased suffiecnt for my needs of WWII in the west (1940, mid war and 1944), ACW, Dark Age and War of the Roses.
I am momentariliy stymied on Ancients and Napoleonics until the dark Lord seees fit to release them to us (the horseflesh in the Pendraken lasagne). I am also bogged down in Korea seeeking suitable Chinese/North Korean infantry in summer dress. (That is a uniform suitable for warmer climes, not a floral frock. It's easy to get North Korea infantry in floral frocks.)
I am well advanced on my 1970's TV mash-up period in which zombies will battle dinosaurs who are chewing on Aliens who are being shot at by UNIT.
The question is "where now?" (First one to say "League of Ausberg" can come straight down to the fourm bar where I will not buy them a drink and then studiously ignore them.)
I think I fancy something not too mechanised, with very few horses (I hate painting horses) but with uniforms (I hate painting non-uniforms). Something small scale, perhaps suitable for skirmishing.
Any thoughts?
How about the Williamiite Wars?
No?
Ok How about Tudor or Elizabethan..Nice period can also be used for fantasy human armies if you fancy that sort of thing
Could maybe double them up as Border Reivers as well
AWI, v few horses, lovely sculpts, only need half a dozen units a side for a decent game.
French and Indian War
Can do skirmish and smaller battles, no cavalry. Uniforms and militia and Indians. Plus the pendraken SYW and FIW are lovely.
(It's in my inbox at the mo.)
World War 1 East Africa campaign?
Not too mechanised (unless you wind up scratchbuilding some ships!), not many horses and uniformed (mostly).
AWI would be my first port of call due to great sculpts, limited cavalry and small engagements. Or how about the 2nd Schleswig-Holstein War in 1864?
Quote from: Fenton on 13 January 2014, 12:43:36 PM
Ok How about Tudor or Elizabethan..Nice period can also be used for fantasy human armies if you fancy that sort of thing
Could maybe double them up as Border Reivers as well
I'm doing a fair old number of new and converted 'Tudory' figures at the moment.....For a special project.
I'll try and post some pics up in the next few days. ;)
(I've checked with the folk involved (including the Dark Lord :P)...and it's fine for me to show them.)
Cheers - Phil
Cool 8)
Boer war?
Aztecs or Teddy Bears ;)
I would second either FIW or AWI as both are reasonably small projects with the added bonus of native American indians
take care
andy
World War I - after a trip to hospital.
IanS
AWI does seem to fit your requirements like a glove, but perhaps the Great Northern War has slightly more of the exotic to it?
Mollinary
Flodden fields? Hastings?
Hmmm ... Not too enamoured of the AWI, not the colonials. I'm going to ignore Nosher in this case, but I'm quite taken by the Elizabethan idea. I know absolutely nothing about any of it, so would need to do some research.
WWI is also a possible. I'm thinking 1914 or Allenby, but isn't that just following the centenary herd?
How's the Marlburian range?
Lots of horse if I remember correctly
There is fighting in Ireland but stuff in Early America
Irregular Wars who is a member here has written a set of rules for the period which is quite good. He is also about 15 miles from me when he comes to doing a second edition
Here is his blog
http://irregularwars.blogspot.co.uk/
How about WW1 in Mesopotamia? Brits v. Turks. Not much cavalry (armoured cars if you want them).
Yers. The Brit vs Turks is in my mind as a friend bought me the Osprey MAA for Xmas. :-\
I can provide some Mespot temptation perhaps
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zippee/sets/72157626160790535/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zippee/sets/72157626160829923/
:D
Damn you! They look really good.
I feel I am being drawn to the dark side.
They do look good. Go on, you know you want to. ;) ;) ;)
I keep looking at doing WW1 in Mesopotamia, then telling myself not to. Zippees pics may have just tipped the balance especially as you appear to be using ITLSU!
If you don't mind me asking, what base sizes did you use?
regards
Freddy
18th Century
Pros - Tricornes.
Cons - High ratio of cavalry- but... TRICORNES!
Quote from: Last Hussar on 26 January 2014, 03:33:22 PM
Cons - High ratio of cavalry- but... TRICORNES!
Is that horses with three horns?
Irriot - it's another sill 'at.
Lots of silly 'ats in 18th century.
IanS
Quote from: freddy326 on 16 January 2014, 08:27:07 AM
I keep looking at doing WW1 in Mesopotamia, then telling myself not to. Zippees pics may have just tipped the balance especially as you appear to be using ITLSU!
If you don't mind me asking, what base sizes did you use?
regards
Freddy
Hi Freddy
No problem, yep I play ITSLU - it's a bit dated now (compared to newer TFL rules) but gives a good game once you've worked out what's what :D
That said my basing is generic enough that although intended for ITSLU, I could use them with almost any other rules (not that there are many to choose form)
Anyway base sizes, this is what I recorded at the time (I always keep a log of bases and paint schemes 8))
Infantry 2 figs 20mm x 20mm
MGs 1 team 25mm Dia
Signals 1 team 25mm Dia
Btn HQ 2 figs 25mm Dia
Bde HQ 4 figs 60mm Dia
Cavalry 2 figs 30mm x 30mm
Rgt HQ 2 figs 25mm Dia
Artillery 1 gun 40mm x 40mm
Limber 1 team 20mm x 80mm
Vehicles probably 40mm x 60mm as that's pretty standard for me but I didn't make a note of it and it's raining so I'm not walking down to games room to measure :P
Quote from: ianrs54 on 26 January 2014, 04:14:20 PM
Irriot - it's another sill 'at.
Lots of silly 'ats in 18th century.
Do they wear the hats to hide the three horns?