doctorphalanx

Swedish pike-and-shot, Swedish horsemen, Detached shot, Cuirassiers, Dragoons, German pike-and-shot, Croats, Arquebusiers. I've bas...

Commanders and Cannons I had originally intended to put three mounted figures on Commander bases but sometimes less is more and I think...

Original plan for Horse Original plan for Light Horse These photos show my original plans for Horse and Croat Light Horse. The t...

German and Spanish Pike+shot The non-Swedish Pike+shot units include Imperialist, Catholic League, Spanish and other German Foot fightin...

A test base of Swedish Pike+shot sitting temporarily on Blu-Tac. Command strip forms second row of the pikes. I've been looking forw...

Swedes with muskets circa 1660 (The original version of this article failed to acknowledge my debt to Chris Pringle's Bloody Big Bat...

Suggested unit basing for 15mm etc in Tilly's Very Bad Day In Tilly's Very Bad Day each base represents a brigade. When I was g...

Some of my 10mm American Civil War figures: I am basically following the same methodology. This is a rough and incomplete draft of my pl...

Thirty Years War musketeers I'm not sure exactly what units I'm going to end up with at this stage but I can make some provision...

Battle of Lützen 1632 As I eventually want to use Tilly's Very Bad Day to play historical scenarios, I thought I'd better get a...

Scottish musketeers. After some more thought I decided get some additional figures types: WEC05 - Musketeers, Shoulder, Monmouth cap ...

Battle of Noerdlingen 1634 My normal practice for basing multiple figure stands is a combination of 2mm MDF and sheet steel. This gives...

Baccus 6mm Cuirassiers My immediate wargaming priority has been to get to grips with Steven Thomas' Thirty Years War rules, Tilly...

The prolific Steven Thomas (of Balagan.info ) has just published a free set of fast-play Thirty Years War rules called Tilly’s Very Bad D...

The latest and last set of Rampant rules - Rebels and Patriots - is due out in January 2019 and will fill the gap in the Rampant range be...

Promising but not perfect The  Twilight of the Sun King (TotSK) rules cover the period from 1680-1721. They were originally written by ...

There aren't many gaps in my wargaming interests but 19th Century Colonial conflict is one of the more obvious. I do have some old 6mm...