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| Current reading focus: Late Antiquity |
As regards wargaming, my new year’s resolution was to make no resolutions. I certainly won't be formulating any grandiose plans and I hesitate even to mention current interests in case of raising expectations...but that's the point of this blog so I will.
My immediate activity is to continue reorganising my 15mm Ancient and Medieval armies in anticipation of playing To the Strongest! and in learning the rules. As ever, my wargaming interests run parallel to historical reading (when I get the time) and I am currently focusing on Late Antiquity.
The combination of 80mm frontages and a 4" grid (which I have chosen for TtS!) works so well for me that it has also set me thinking about rebasing my 25mm Renaissance armies on 80mm wide bases.
I intend to continue work on the 28mm Russian Civil War armies for The Men Who Would Be Kings as these will be easier to complete than many of my other, more colour-complex, 28mm armies.
Other than that I should move myself to finish the 6mm armies for Tilly's Very Bad Day as they are not far from completion.
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| 28mm figures on 80mm bases from the collection of Norm (Battlefields & Warriors blog). Great dynamism in posing the figures and a true inspiration. More pictures here. |
I should not of course be starting anything new but there are some significant historical gaps in my collection and it is hard to resist nice figures. One such gap is the Hundred Years War and the figures which draw me are the 28mm ranges from Claymore Castings and Antediluvian Miniatures. This would be for the Anglo-Scottish Wars (e.g. Otterburn 1388) rather than the Continental theatre.
In recent years I settled on using relatively small numbers of individually based 28mm figures for Rampant skirmish games and smaller scales for multibased mass armies. This project would be multibased 28mm figures, thus breaking what has been a very sensible policy. So, to keep things under control, I am again looking at 80mm wide units for use on a compact table. Quite a few gamers have gone down this path and I am particularly inspired by the Wars of the Roses figures (pictured above) belonging to Norm of the very content-rich Battlefields & Warriors blog. This is just the look I am after.
I have to admit that if using TtS! (which seems likely even though I haven't yet played it), the armies and the game would be little different from using my 15mm Feudal English and Scots. I guess it's all in the aesthetics.
Hi Richard, thanks for the shout out. I am finding the combo of 80mm frontage with the 28mm figure a good compromise for bringing battles to a typical dining table.
ReplyDeleteI am currently experimenting with 80mm napoleonic bases, with two bases making the battalion. It seems to give an overall useful function of small footprint line, attack column and square.
It doesn't replicate narrow march column particularly well, but overall, it intrigues me.
Hi Norm
DeleteYou're welcome.
I completely agree about 2-base units for representing horse-and-musket era battalion formations. 'Might & Reason' uses two. 'Maurice' uses four but might just as well use two. March column is not going to look right (and is never going to be realistically long enough) but you can always put a counter at the column head if clarification is really necessary.
Richard