Fantastic!
Opened the box up hungrily and checked them out. Nice little 6mm Boers and Colonial Brits, European Knights and foot and Muslim fighters. All look really good. Will they be better than the 10mm troops I have to compare with? Not sure yet. I need to paint up some samples of each.
Stay tuned for that!
Showing posts with label ERA: CRUSADES. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ERA: CRUSADES. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Sunday, July 14, 2013
The Boer Wars Have Bitten
I have always been the strong advocate of picking a limited number of projects as a wargamer to be your focus. I use this idea because of a number of reasons - limited lifespan, limited money, limited space, limited time.
For me, I chose 6mm Napoleonics as my #1 project to spend my precious time and money on. Followed closely by Moderns in 20mm and more recently 6mm. To this I added 6mm ACW and 6mm Sci Fi and of course I needed to devote time and money and effort to terrain for these projects as well. I had always wanted to do the 3rd Crusades and so this year I added 10mm Crusades to the list as the 6mm figures left a lot to be desired.
So there I was. All sorted. It meant I could avoid all those lovely books on other periods and skip over those tantalizing articles in magazines and on websites knowing comfortably I could do so without temptation to dabble in distracting periods or scales.
Then I bought a local history of a fellow's grandfather's exploits during The 2nd Boer War and then World War I culminating in the Australian Light Horse's famous charge and capture of Beersheba.
I had always had the Boer War bug but kept it in check by following my exclusive projects rules. This book however has lit something inside of me. I already have arid terrain in 6mm to use. And the scale of the units are smaller and therefore cheaper to purchase and put together. For rules I thought I would use a modification for Force on Force.
So onto the web I went. 6mm is always my 1st choice of scale due to the terrain I already have to use, the space I have available - both for play and storage and the cheap price for figures especially when you are a megalomaniac such as I who loves to field both sides of periods and at a scale to visually inspire both myself and others along the way. I like to put 1000s of figures on the tabletop.
Recently I had expanded my projects to include the 3rd Crusade and found it difficult to find good 6mm figures that I could paint up nicely to show the colour of that period so I had compromised and "allowed" myself to purchase 10mm figures for this project. So for the Boer Wars I went looking for 6mm knowing I may again have to settle on 10mm. I was surprised to find Baccus has some good looking figures in 6mm for Boer War and so I made a purchase of a few to test them out. While I was there I found they also produce a range of Crusades figures, so I purchased those as well. Not to be dissuaded from 10mm, I also went and found a range of Boer War figures from 10mm producer Pendraken and purchased some of them. So I now have sample lots of 6mm Crusades and Boer Wars and 10mm Crusades and Boer Wars heading to my painting table.
I will keep posting under a new label on my progress through deciding 6mm or 10mm for the Boer Wars project. Stay tuned!
For me, I chose 6mm Napoleonics as my #1 project to spend my precious time and money on. Followed closely by Moderns in 20mm and more recently 6mm. To this I added 6mm ACW and 6mm Sci Fi and of course I needed to devote time and money and effort to terrain for these projects as well. I had always wanted to do the 3rd Crusades and so this year I added 10mm Crusades to the list as the 6mm figures left a lot to be desired.
So there I was. All sorted. It meant I could avoid all those lovely books on other periods and skip over those tantalizing articles in magazines and on websites knowing comfortably I could do so without temptation to dabble in distracting periods or scales.
Then I bought a local history of a fellow's grandfather's exploits during The 2nd Boer War and then World War I culminating in the Australian Light Horse's famous charge and capture of Beersheba.
I had always had the Boer War bug but kept it in check by following my exclusive projects rules. This book however has lit something inside of me. I already have arid terrain in 6mm to use. And the scale of the units are smaller and therefore cheaper to purchase and put together. For rules I thought I would use a modification for Force on Force.
So onto the web I went. 6mm is always my 1st choice of scale due to the terrain I already have to use, the space I have available - both for play and storage and the cheap price for figures especially when you are a megalomaniac such as I who loves to field both sides of periods and at a scale to visually inspire both myself and others along the way. I like to put 1000s of figures on the tabletop.
Recently I had expanded my projects to include the 3rd Crusade and found it difficult to find good 6mm figures that I could paint up nicely to show the colour of that period so I had compromised and "allowed" myself to purchase 10mm figures for this project. So for the Boer Wars I went looking for 6mm knowing I may again have to settle on 10mm. I was surprised to find Baccus has some good looking figures in 6mm for Boer War and so I made a purchase of a few to test them out. While I was there I found they also produce a range of Crusades figures, so I purchased those as well. Not to be dissuaded from 10mm, I also went and found a range of Boer War figures from 10mm producer Pendraken and purchased some of them. So I now have sample lots of 6mm Crusades and Boer Wars and 10mm Crusades and Boer Wars heading to my painting table.
I will keep posting under a new label on my progress through deciding 6mm or 10mm for the Boer Wars project. Stay tuned!
Thursday, November 22, 2012
More Crusades arrive
Just prior to the weekend I received the 2nd of my 10mm Crusades figures, this time from TB Line from Italy.
They look great but I think I will add to my army from Magister again. TB Line just took sooooo long to fulfill the order and send it to me and overall was long to respond to emails and such. Not specifically bad service as I did drop the ball a few times myself during the process but overall everything took longer than it should.
They look great but I think I will add to my army from Magister again. TB Line just took sooooo long to fulfill the order and send it to me and overall was long to respond to emails and such. Not specifically bad service as I did drop the ball a few times myself during the process but overall everything took longer than it should.
TB Line left and Magister Millitum right
TB Line left and Magister Millitum right
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Force on Force and Crusades
So this weekend I followed the new rules and turned the PC off and retreated to the games room for any spare time I had.
I managed to get some of my 6mm moderns out and put together a squad of US Army in 2 hummers and get a few snaps. Moved them around the board a little with some taliban. This weekend I might throw them on a board and have a shoot out and see how they go. I really am leaning towards to FOF in 6mm. So much time, money and space can be saved rather than using 20mm. Although 20mm look fantastic and vehicles are so readily available. And you can actually see the different weapons they use. Mind you it dont really matter which AR a dude uses in FOF. A quick game should be able to confirm things for me enough to paint some up and take some pics.
I also got some time to review my 10mm crusades and so I cleaned them all up, took an inventory listing and began gluing them to temporary 2 figure bases, except for the mounted knights which I left on single bases. A quick review of the rules again in Tactica and I should be able to do a quick unit on unit test this coming weekend.
I managed to get some of my 6mm moderns out and put together a squad of US Army in 2 hummers and get a few snaps. Moved them around the board a little with some taliban. This weekend I might throw them on a board and have a shoot out and see how they go. I really am leaning towards to FOF in 6mm. So much time, money and space can be saved rather than using 20mm. Although 20mm look fantastic and vehicles are so readily available. And you can actually see the different weapons they use. Mind you it dont really matter which AR a dude uses in FOF. A quick game should be able to confirm things for me enough to paint some up and take some pics.
US squad provides all round protection for 2 hummers on the move
Taliban swarm in from the north
More taliban moving in
A taliban leader is spotted direction rpg fire
I also got some time to review my 10mm crusades and so I cleaned them all up, took an inventory listing and began gluing them to temporary 2 figure bases, except for the mounted knights which I left on single bases. A quick review of the rules again in Tactica and I should be able to do a quick unit on unit test this coming weekend.
all 10mm crusaders from Magister Militum cleaned and ready for basing
mounted knights
armoured foot
archers
pilgrims and spears
based up on magnet. each stand will be a single figure as referred in the rules
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