Hi

I used to subscribe to battlegames and used to love the Imagi-nations articles which were based on the 7yw.

I had an idea about doing something similar but basing it in the mid 19th century (1850-70) set in central Europe.

My chosen figures are the Crimean war Russian infantry and some Saxon cavalry, painted how I like and organized how I want using Black powder rules to customize the units.

I`ve been a bit off gaming and painting lately but I`m now quite enthused about inventing a whole country and it`s armed forces.

I`ve talked a few members of the club to consider trying it out.

I`ve even started to name the regiments and writing an army organization.

I  haven`t named my country yet but it`s going to be a Grand Duchy of somewhere.

Anybody else do this sort of thing.

Jim

I don't.

Strangly, only in my imagination...

Ruritania is always a and the Prisoner of Zenda is good starting place (there is a really Wikipedia article on imaginations). As is Tintin and The Ottakar Sceptre is also a brilliant twentieth century version.

Ruritania  is as Mad Lemmey says a good starting point for fictional 19th century.  I painted up several units based on the movie, and some great games using TLGB rules.

In modern era I game a Latin American scenario using WW2 Americans, Marines,  Indo China French, and now Falklands figures with BKC.

VBCW is a interwar variant. 

Jim, enjoy and keep us posted 

Dammit! Dammit! Dammit!

This forum has wheedled it's way into my psyche. Either that or you've been talking to Dr Helen.

I was reading Charles Grant and thinking about his C18 made up nations, and was thinking "There's a whole load of C19 Pendraken stuff that needs my attention." Then this thread comes up!

I'm planning to with a shedload of AWI figures, with my 'countries' set in Mittel Europa sometime in the mid 18thC. That way I can choose all the figures I like for units but still keep a broadly historical feel for the forces and tactics involved.

Exactly what I had in mind but in the 19th century instead.

Mostly it's fictional forces in real wars but I've run various fictional campaigns

... a fictional version of Renaissance Italy

... The Fall of The Atlantean Republic, with various graeco-roman "diadochoi" carving out kingdoms for themselves on an island with more than a passing resemblance to Wales!

... The ACW (Albion Civil War) where the map and mechanisms from Kingmaker were used to run a very different English Civil War resulting in Margaret Beaufort, Queen of England ... a descendant of the Wars of the Roses figure, no doubt I was spectacularly successful in always backing the wrong horse 

I'm sure there were others I've forgotten.

 

Ever since reading Charles Grant the Wargame I have wanted to do Imagi-nations project.

Funnily enough I never considered doing 19th century, but I shall have a rethink, as it could bring together a number of things that interest me - the Indian Mutiny, steppe horsemen, the uniforms of the European armies of the period, a touch of Flashman....

I tried an imagi-nations campaign using Maurice in which my Austrian troops became the Margrave of Weissburg so that I could happily give them some non-Austrian characteristics. Unfortunately my highly imaginative opponent called his imagi-nation the Kingdom of Prussia, thus producing an uber-powerful Prussian army and rendering the whole process pointless

Quote from: Dour Puritan on 19 January 2014, 03:57:16 PM
I tried an imagi-nations campaign using Maurice in which my Austrian troops became the Margrave of Weissburg so that I could happily give them some non-Austrian characteristics. Unfortunately my highly imaginative opponent called his imagi-nation the Kingdom of Prussia, thus producing an uber-powerful Prussian army and rendering the whole process pointless

the bad b@$tard...I hope you employed the pointy-stick?

Quoteproducing an uber-powerful Prussian army and rendering the whole process pointless

Yep, hope the pointy stick was employed...

I would recommend the yet-to-be released WWI German hussars for imagi-19thC.

Lovely idea. How about a new super power in Germany created in 1837 following the repeal of the Salic law in Hanover, and a Guelph/Wettin state incorporating all the Saxon Dukedoms and Kingdom, Hanover, and Great Britain. Give Prussia something to think about?  A real Anglo-Saxon Kingdom?


Mollinary

Dare ya Mollinary!

I shall field my French backed Trans-substania forces (South of Ruritania, East of Lilliput.