Greetings all

Started by Smithy, 04 January 2021, 09:46:59 PM

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Chris Pringle

Smithy, welcome to the Forum. 10mm - good choice.

Quote from: fsn on 05 January 2021, 08:15:04 AM
2021 is meant to be my year of Napoleon and I could do with some inspiration.

It's the 225th anniversary of Napoleon's glorious first campaign! Is that inspiring enough? Some fascinating battles, and very do-able because the forces are relatively small. In fact mine were really small as I fought 1796 in 2mm:
http://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.com/2018/04/lodid-dice.html

Chris

Bloody Big BATTLES!
https://groups.io/g/bloodybigbattles


Leman

The artist formerly known as Dour Puritan!

Orcs

The cynics are right nine times out of ten. -Mencken, H. L.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Smithy

Thanks all for your welcoming messages. Assuming my clumsy fingers can figure it out some napoleonic French pictures will be incoming on the photo's board later
Cheers
Smithy

Jonny

Hello!

Look forward to seeing your Napoleonics  :)

Jonny

Westmarcher

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

hammurabi70

Quote from: Chris Pringle on 05 January 2021, 10:29:57 AM
Smithy, welcome to the Forum. 10mm - good choice.

It's the 225th anniversary of Napoleon's glorious first campaign! Is that inspiring enough? Some fascinating battles, and very do-able because the forces are relatively small. In fact mine were really small as I fought 1796 in 2mm:
http://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.com/2018/04/lodid-dice.html

Chris

Bloody Big BATTLES!
https://groups.io/g/bloodybigbattles



Inspirational stuff. How do you base and mark the units? Small units are difficult to differentiate.

Scorpio_Rocks

Welcome on board Smithy!

We all love us some pics - look forwards to you posting them
"Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake - we must not interrupt him too soon."
Horatio Nelson.

Chris Pringle

Quote from: hammurabi70 on 07 January 2021, 09:11:51 PM
Inspirational stuff. How do you base and mark the units? Small units are difficult to differentiate.

Sorry, hammurabi, missed this until now. Answer is:

All my 2mm units are on 2" x 2" bases.

The games are small enough (about a dozen units a side) that marking them isn't really necessary. All the bases are numbered, though, so I sometimes mark them on a roster so I can check which brigade belongs to which general if I really need to. There are other things that can be done to aid quick and easy visual ID, eg some units might be based as ordre mixte, others in columns, etc. Then you can say all the ordre mixte are 1 Corps, all the massed columns are 2 Corps, the ones in white uniforms are 3 Corps (etc).

Chris

hammurabi70

Quote from: Chris Pringle on 10 February 2021, 07:32:30 PM
Sorry, hammurabi, missed this until now. Answer is:

All my 2mm units are on 2" x 2" bases.

The games are small enough (about a dozen units a side) that marking them isn't really necessary. All the bases are numbered, though, so I sometimes mark them on a roster so I can check which brigade belongs to which general if I really need to. There are other things that can be done to aid quick and easy visual ID, eg some units might be based as ordre mixte, others in columns, etc. Then you can say all the ordre mixte are 1 Corps, all the massed columns are 2 Corps, the ones in white uniforms are 3 Corps (etc).

Chris

Many thanks.  I am using 40mm x 20mm but the marker strip at the back is 6mm so I only have 14mm for the figures [2mm].  Even two ranks of cavalry are a tight fit.  My current struggle is dealing with the artillery.

Roel

Welkom / Wilkommen / Welcome!