The first of the Prussians. Approximately 50:50 painted 15-20 years ago and last two weeks. Anyone able to tell which are which?







All these figures are Irregular 6mm. Now take a look at Javier's 10mm rendition of the Battle of Beaumont. I am dying of envy here. Marvellous stuff.

Quote from: Dour Puritan on 12 January 2015, 04:02:24 PM
The first of the Prussians. Approximately 50:50 painted 15-20 years ago and last two weeks. Anyone able to tell which are which?

I'll take a stab that the ones on the right of the photo are the newer ones. 
Cheers - Phil

Quote from: Dour Puritan on 12 January 2015, 04:02:24 PM
The first of the Prussians. Approximately 50:50 painted 15-20 years ago and last two weeks. Anyone able to tell which are which?

Photo 1 - old stuff
Photo 2 - new stuff
Photo 3 - a tad Impressionist ..... which, coincidentally, is a form of art that started to gain prominence in the 1870's .... (or is that just my old eyes?) 


[only joking DP - you know I like your stuff - stuff? wait! that sounded dodgy ... er ... artwork ....  ]

All v nice DP!

There's something endearingly cheeky about 6mm figures, particularly en masse. I'm guessing each infantry base is a battalion, which would give you an army corps per side?

Depending on the scenario the numbers depicted by a base vary from 500 to 1500, but is usually about 1000. Units vary between 3 and 5 bases representing brigades or divisions. BBB are not designed for small engagements, so battles like Spicheren and Nuits are more suited to my 10mm figures.

Hi Hertsblue,

Don't those Irregular figures look great? For the BBB Gravelotte or Sedan scenarios, at 1,500-2,000 men per base, you are looking at 80-100 bases a side giving you a total of 10 or 11 corps on the table for a 3 to 3.5-hour game.

Chris

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Chris, I'm sorely tempted to dig out my 5mm FPW troops that haven't seen the light of day for over twenty years. 

Well Herts, that was my starting point, although they were still being used up to about 8 years ago.

Ref BBB for the ACW, I am a bit surprised that it is worth it, given that most of the battles seem to fall below the author's threshold for consideration as a scenario. To be specific, Gitschin in the APW with two corps (say 60,000) on one side and two divisions (say 25,000), total 85,000, does not make the cut. Based on the need for 90,000 to be involved, the scenario book will be a bit thin. Or does the ACW get special pleading?

Currently there are two free scenarios on the Yahoo site, i.e. Shiloh and Gettysburg. Chris Pringle is producing some small scenarios for people to try out the rule mechanisms before embarking on a major battle. So far Langensalza is available on the Yahoo site and Spicheren is in preparation. He is also rethinking Gitschin and may be putting that out as well. The ACW as a separate scenario book seems a lot less likely, and as has been noted on a number of forums it would take relatively little effort to translate the larger Alter of Freedom scenarios into BBB. There is no way battles like those in the Valley campaign would work with BBB where some of Jacksons battles would only feature three or four bases of infantry with the cavalry and artillery factored in.

(Don't know if this should be a separate thread, if so just move it.)

I told you I had a couple of battlepacks for FPW. Dug them out and decided they can jump the queue seeing as Ma Subs is off to stay with one of the smalls for a week I hope to get them painted.

I've found a set of rules (in my collection of farsends of sets) called Bazaine! written in 1989 by a certain Mr Bernard Ganley who if memory serves frequents this forum. Anyone used these before and what did they think? They seem to be specifically designed for 6mm.

 

I've had them since 1989 and they are very interesting. they are in various parts: the rules themselves,  background and campaign information and formations and playsheets. Never got round to playing them as at the time I was playing Warfare in the Industrial with my 10mm Wargames South figures (now sadly sold on). On quck inspection I could use them as they operate on 30mm frontage, which is the basing I use, but each base represents a company, so small scale actions then.

Yes, I noticed the 1 base to 1 company so I may have to get some more stuff. I'll have a word with that nice Mr. Kay.

Now starting to make some progress with the Brigade Miniatures 3mm buildings for use with 6mm in BBB.

Interesting comparison with the figures and the half scale buildings. 

Quote from: Westmarcher on 07 March 2015, 02:41:21 PM
Interesting comparison with the figures and the half scale buildings. 

I assume you're just using them to represent the positions of buildings?  I think you referred to this in another thread.

Yes, they will sit on templates representing either village areas or town areas. In the rules it talks about templates being squares of the same size. However, all the scenario maps show villages as relatively small circles so I have opted for circular bases for the village template and oblong bases for the town template, both smaller than the rules recommendation. In the Borny scenario, for example, there are over 30 villages on a 6'x4' table. I will post more pictures when the templates are ready. I have downloaded some photos of grass and cobbles from the internet to cut up and glue to the templates. I am also intending to glue on some roads and tracks.

I'm all for this; otherwise it just creates more "dead space!"