tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71482850572819993892024-03-05T08:27:47.610+00:00abc wargamersThe thoughts and games of ageing wargamersABC Wargammershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565259869932116259noreply@blogger.comBlogger183125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7148285057281999389.post-695948213923496882020-08-31T11:57:00.002+01:002020-08-31T11:57:45.672+01:00<p> Sad news</p><p>This is the first time I have posted on the blog and it is not the pleasurable event I had hoped. <br /></p><p>Yesterday Alan lost his battle with cancer and passed quietly away with his family.</p><p>I met Alan back in the 70s and we've been friends and playing wargames together ever since. He's been a really good friend in so many ways nd it hasn't really hit me that he has gone.</p><p>The last game we played together and the last picture of us can be seen on bob the old painters blog (link down the side Douglas Miniatures 20mm crimean wargamin). Please take a look.<br /></p><p>Alan enjoyed the game, the figures and company and I know he enjoyed the comments he received on this blog from other gamers.</p><p>I shall be in touch with his wife, two daughters and grandson in the coming days and will assure them that he will be missed by us all </p><p>Bob<br /></p>ABC Wargammershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565259869932116259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7148285057281999389.post-30417825983140809102020-08-03T21:07:00.001+01:002020-08-08T11:44:51.319+01:00Nothing for a whileUnfortunately the cancer has taken a turn for the worst and gone to my brain how it found it god only knows!!! Had 3 brain seizures Woke in ICU to a very nice doctor asking did I know where I was! Last thing I remember was I sitting eating chicken and chips!! I seem to have cancer with a full blown phd in the Art of Chinese Warfare rather than the one that could do quite well in wood work!<br />
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Anyway, I had have whole brain radio therapy. They let me keep my mask which is individually made so I am painting up to 'surprise ' this year's Halloween door ringers! looking at it a reminded me of the British series in the mid 1960s <i>The Avengers</i> with John Steed and Emma Peel and the episode with the Cyborgs. Apologies to those who haven't got a clue what I am going on about. I think men of a certain age will remember Diana Rigg playing Emma Peel<br />
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The Cyborgs were Robots and used karate chops to breakdown doors and walls to get their victims and Emma and Steed had a to defeat them. Come to think about it was thee ever more than one?<br />
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Need to spray the mask silver/steel yet.<br />
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The invisible man is the other alternative!<br />
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The result of all of this is the 2020 will be my last blogging year! pity because I came late to it and have enjoyed it. I hope you have to. Going to try to get a couple of games in so there might be something more yet, but nobody is holding hope for 2021. Hope this post hasn't been depressing. It is meant to show that even in adversity you can still have a bit of laugh<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The next thing was a 'table' I had packed mine away. I had some old blue 12 inch blue floor tiles which I thought I would paint green - but hold on, for our first try all the DIY shops were shut and I couldn't buy green matt paint for 'love nor money'. So, for our first game my boys were all at sea playing on a blue surface. The aim of the game was to hold the gain control of and hold the cross road. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I set the table up with 15mm Napoleonics. Rather than have a 'passive player' just looking at the table through a computer screen we thought we would mirror one another's tables. In effect Bob could use whatever scale he wanted and period provided the troop types were the same (infantry/cavalry/artillery) and everyone had the same factors and grid in effect you could have 28mm 18thC Austrians and Russians on one table and Napoleonic ones on another table. We used an 8 x 8 grid my squares were 4"x4" and Bob's were 6" x 6".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Come the day, the video technology failed us due to the famous 'Poor Connection, Reconnecting. Video will be resumed shortly' making playing visually impossible, So we just decided to talk over the phone and roll dice each telling one another on our turns what unit was moving from which grid to the next.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My initial reaction to the rules was 'ohh' as I lost initiative roll and Strength Points SPs to Bob's dice rolls. Indeed I did ask him at one point whether he was using that old Salute die which had 2 6s on it! But I couldn't get away from the fact that my dice rolls were rubbish anyway. But as the game progressed I really warmed to these rules and playing chess like move 'E3 to E5' short of thing over the phone worked. Bob told me his moves and I moved the figures on my table accordingly and vice versa. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So I bought the actual Portable Napoleonic War Game set of rules, the DIY store at the bottom of the road was open so I sent my daughter with a colour swatch and my blue tiles became green! This time it was Russians against Ottomans. I had them in 15mm and Bob has them in 28mm. We increased the table size to 8 x 10 squares. There are instructionetc for written rules but we choose to leave these out for the purposes of this 'test' game.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My Guard Cuirassiers didn't prove as effective as I thought and were pushed back until eventually one of the Ottoman heavy cavalry regiments broke as its SP shrunk to nothing..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I did destroy 6 of Bob's units but these were basically poor quality infantry he used to shield his Janissaries on the left flank from my infantry and some units of light cavalry and poor infantry on the right. We got this wrong in terms of the type of troops we choose for the terrain. Too much cavalry on the Russian side. The Russian Field gun did sterling work deriving back units of Ottoman heavy cavalry but the horse artillery couldn't get into the game. Bob had similar problems with his guns which after some initial salvos couldn't find any targets. The rules on Close Combat seem counter-intuitive and slowed us down as we had to forget some of the ways of thinking we were used to in terms of the effects of Commanders etc. and reverse the way you calculate hits from firing in these rules. Once we got our heads around it it made sense but it took a long time and slowed down the game which took a little enjoyment from it. Now we have got it we are determined to try again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No substitute for a game in the same place but a very good next best thing and we both had an excuse to get figures on the table even if in different scales and 'grid' table size and to move them about always a pleasure in itself. So all in all a plus in the circumstances. Thanks to Bob Cordery.</span><br />
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ABC Wargammershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565259869932116259noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7148285057281999389.post-89181178636797256182020-05-01T10:40:00.000+01:002020-05-01T11:58:16.083+01:00Strelets Rif Foot Rebels<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Following on frrom the last post, I have now finished the Stretlets Foot Rifs. Like their cavalry compatriots these are lovely little figures, with lots of details. You get three sprues of identical figures plue 3 (one on each sprue) and 5 command figures (41 usable figures). Streltsey 16th-18th century Russian Infantry. Not very helpful in the terrain of North Africa and Arabia. Fortunately, I was able to pass these on to John Cunningham. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What is it with the designers of plastic figures that it is almost essential to include a number of questionable poses - in particular figures clubbing with rifles. The same is true with this set. Worse still is that there are 2 poses using rifles as clubs on every sprue - 6 comparatively useless poses. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Having a good look at one of the clubbing figures, I thought that I could reasonably convert one of the two poses to a standard bearer. I think this has worked well and was a very simple conversion. I am not sure whether to convert the other 2 figures. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the moment this set is easily available on ebay and from a number of suppliers. I didn't realise that Strelets 'retire' sets seamingly quite quickly. There was a nice set of Arab Uprising figures listed under WW1 which would have worked well with this set. However, even though is was only released a couple of years ago, it is no longer available, such a pity.</span></div>
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ABC Wargammershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565259869932116259noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7148285057281999389.post-66226533919345423872020-04-26T15:56:00.000+01:002020-04-26T15:56:22.631+01:00Strelets Mounted Rif Rebels <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was browsing through the Plastic Warrior Review and came across Strelets Mounted and foot Rif Rebels and wondered if we could use them in Jack's colonial army to bump up the Dervish forces.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am not sure if they were work but I went ahead and painted them anyway, starting with the mounted figures. We have 20 or so B&B Foreign Legion figures so we can always try a small game with them instead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is a lot of detail on these figures if you want to go there, but my eyes are not up to it these days, I think they would benefit from some of the Army Painter dip or similar to bring out the detail, unfortunately, mine had gone rock hard and I am too mean to buy some more at this stage!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now painting the Foot figures</span>ABC Wargammershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565259869932116259noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7148285057281999389.post-12859739166202500932020-04-17T11:08:00.001+01:002020-04-18T07:20:44.594+01:00Bob's Petrine Army<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is my latest project, and is not yet complete. It is
the Russian army of Peter the Great, not to fight the Swedes in the Great
Northern War, but to take on my Ottoman Hordes. It is dated to as close to 1700
as I can make it, a time when although there were uniform regulations they were
not met, and the Russian army is at its most colourful with green, red, blue,
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original "soldat" regiments that survived into the new army - Sir Patrick
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and red coated. It is often stated that the Streltzi were disbanded and they
were, but Peter could not manage without their numbers and they were
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dragoons and although by the 1720s all were in green at this time they wore
yellow, red, white, light and dark blue as well. But as with the infantry there
were not enough of them so Horse and lance units were used. These included the
local nobility, as well as irregulars such as Cossacks, Culmucks, lancers and
hussars as well as reiters.</span></div>
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noble cavalry has been painted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the
noble cavalry including the command (but not the dog) are from Hinchcliffe. The
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Irregular Miniatures; Lancashire Games and Wargames Foundry. The Streltzi are from
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the Italian Wars of Unification.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
already had the Austrians and French so to some extent it was a matter of
producing some of the Italian states.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Sardinian Lancer I made for John Cunningham’s Crimean War range gave
me some cavalry and the Bersaglieri a start with the infantry. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had also made an Italian General to lead my
army. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I then created this ‘master’ for
the Sardinian infantry based on a picture from Uniformology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The French 1840’s Infantryman which John
already sells also works for Italian infantry of various states and the French
Guard from the CW range can also be used for Italian forces.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have a 25mm ‘S Range/mid range
minifigs’ Zouave figure which makes an excellent Papal Zouave with the backpack
swapped, or it can be left as it is. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I opted for a straight grey with red piping. I decided to cut away 'civil war' backpack the figure comes with file the back flat and superglue what I call the Jacklex backpack on the figure which more closely resembles the backpack in the pictures above. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can now get this backpack from jacklexminiatures.com. The Papal Zouves were disbanded and many went to fight in the Franco Prussian War on the side of the French were they formed the Volontaires de l'Quest. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The picture below show then with the fuller French backpacks. To get this figure in the past I had do a head swap of a kepi head onto Zouave figure. </span><br />
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<br />ABC Wargammershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565259869932116259noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7148285057281999389.post-52478463797668934412020-03-24T10:15:00.003+00:002020-03-25T07:38:19.900+00:00Looking to the future - 2 SAGA armies<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have passed the year mark for my cancer and stopped the last chemo treatment for yesterday as I didn't want to lower my immune system still further in light of the COVID19 virus. I am now on what I describe as a boiler maintenance programme. The chemo has shrunk the cancers and the one drug I now have poured into me every 3 weeks should help to hold the line until the Mongal hordes overwhelm the defences again. But no change in the prognosis unfortunately. I did take birthday cake into the chemo unit with one candle, lit it and one nurse said 'ahh is it your birthday?' when I announced 'no, it's the cancers' she looked like I was a bit odd. No sense of humour but some got it still they ate the cake!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anyway, looking to the future and having 12 weeks house arrest to deal with I like many of you have got my paintbrushes out and looked at the lead mountain that I suspect we all have. Not wanting to start a large new project, I knew Bob had some Saxons and Vikings hanging about and we had talked about trying the Saga rules again. We had played one game a year or so ago and it was quite fun and quick and more importantly didn't entail lots of figures. Bob kindly passed on to me the equivalent of a 4 point Saxon and Viking army. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They were quite interesting to paint, I found the Newline figures easier than the Irregular Miniature ones for some reason. So Bob now has them back and they are ready for a game once we are free to move about again.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Vikings</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mostly Irregular Miniature figures. My apologies for the pictures , my proper camera has developed a fault and so I used an old camera I found in the draw. I tried my main camera again and although it still comes up saying it has a fault I think the pictures of the Saxons are much better.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now on to more Jacklex conversions, some Strelets Rifts, maybe another regiment of Austrians for my 1866 Austrian army some more French 1870 units, some interesting looking 1866 Hesse Homberg lancers. a Bactiran camel drawn ambulance for the Russian Crimean forces and on and on...... </span>ABC Wargammershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565259869932116259noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7148285057281999389.post-80645776894424308792020-03-05T13:55:00.001+00:002020-03-05T13:55:42.347+00:00Wargaming The Defence of Duffer's Drift using Jacklex Miniatures<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mark Lodge of Jacklex Miniatures <a href="https://www.jacklexminiatures.com/colonial-nineteenth-century">https://www.jacklexminiatures.com/colonial-nineteenth-century</a> came to see me a week or so ago and was telling Bob and I about Duffers Drift. He sent me a description of the scenarios and some pictures and has kindly agree to allow me to publish the various scenarios. All the scenarios were all fought using Andy Callan's </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Magdala to Mafeking'</b></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> old school set.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'The Defence of Duffer's Drift' (Major General Sir Ernest Swinton KBE, CB, DSO) has been a staple of military instruction since it appeared in 1907 in the 'United Service Magazine'. Although the setting is the turn of century Anglo Boer War in South Africa, the story is universal in the dilemma it poses to any lieutenant (or wargamer!) in any war - how one adapts a piece of terrain to the accomplishment of a different mission with limited manpower, weaponry and communication.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lieutenant Backsight Foresight (BF to his friends - also an acronym for bloody fool) has been left in charge to hold Duffers Drift, the only ford on the Silliassvogel River available to wheeled traffic . It is his first independent command. Here is his chance for fame and glory! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Ground. </b>The river is a sluggish stream crawling along the very bottom of its bed with steep banks covered with dense thorn bushes. 2000 yards to the north of the drift is a flat topped , rocky mountain (Regret Table Mountain) and about a mile to the north east is a sugar loaf kopje (incidentamba) with a farm on its near side. About 1000 yards to the south of the drift is a convex smooth hill (Waschout Hill) with a native kraal on top. The ground between these features is flat open veld.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Mission. </b> Hold the drift at all costs in order to stop the enemy crossing south of the Silliassvigel River.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After a long march to the drift Lieutenant BF pitched a small tented camp just south of the drift, leaving defensive arrangements to the morning when the men would be less tired. He trudged with field glasses and Kodak to the gleaming white walls of the little Dutch farm nestling under the kopje to the north east to meet the owner Mr Andreas Brink and his family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Informed of the British presence by Brink, the Boers surround the camp in the night and at dawn killed the sentries and rushed the camp from three sides taking the little garrison by surprise. The Dukes had 10 killed and 21 wounded. The Boer convoy with guns easily crossed the drift.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do not put off taking defensive measures</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Considering the lessons of the last two engagements, Lieutenant BF moved his position 700-800 years south of the drift and dug a shallow trench 50 yards long broken at a slight angle facing north. He secured Brink in the camp and placed an entrenched guard of six men on Waschout Hill. </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Beware of being enfiladed even from long range fire</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do not have your trench near rising ground over which you cannot see</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The figures used in the games were Jacklex Miniatures from the Boer War , Confederate Army and Colonial British Army ranges. All the figures and many more are available from Jacklex Miniatures at </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">www.jacklexminiatures.com. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The rules were Andy Callan's </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>'Magdala to Mafeking'</b></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> old school set and are available as a free download on the www.jacklexminiatures.com site. The scenery was supplied by 'S&A Scenic' and the buildings are by Hovels. The references is </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>'The Defence of Duffer's Drift'</i></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> E.D. Swinton, George Ronald 1949.</span></div>
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ABC Wargammershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565259869932116259noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7148285057281999389.post-42612517971787899222020-02-17T10:53:00.004+00:002020-02-17T10:53:56.805+00:00S Range Prussian Pioneers - Conversions<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whilst fiddling about making the casualties for my Ambulance service, I came across a couple of conversions that I had started with the idea of making a small unit of Prussian Pioneers. I wasn't wild about these but thought I should just go ahead and painted them up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Given the figures I used, you can do exactly the same conversions to create Bavarian or Wurttemberg Pioneers although I have struggled to find any pictures or uniform details for either. The only uniform I did come across was a Saxon Pioneer which is the same uniform as the Prussians but in green. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 'shovels' are from Irregular Miniatures <b>SW20</b> Farm Implements. Gripping Beast also make a set of tools <b>SC62 </b> 12 tools for £2.00, as do Essex Miniatures<b> X52 </b>which includes Hammers, shovels and picks 8 tools for £2.50. Prices exclude p&p. I am sure there are others out there, but these I have used in the past. One set of tools allows you to make up a number of 'pioneers'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My latest messing about is to make a third gunner for the Prussians, Bavarians and Wurttembergers artillery crews. I always think they look a bit odd with only 2 gunners/poses. This one will be holding a rammer and will be a conversion of the gunner with the shell.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I mentioned in the previous post that I had spotted the Russian Wagon driver in fatigue dress RNX1 in the Minifigs catalogue and wondered if this would be an easier way of getting drivers for LLeido wagons (or indeed any other wagon) than cutting 2 figures apart as I had been doing up until now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of course as soon as I finished my Ambulance conversions I discovered that I already had a LLeido 'box' wagon in another wargames box!! Anyway, at least if provides an opportunity to show you what the figure looks like on a variety of Lleido wagons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Basically the figure works and doesn't look out of place with S range. I think the driver may supposed to be mounted on a horse rather than the seat of a wagon as his legs are quite spread apart. However they can be squeezed together with a pliers to make it look better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The fatigue dress means that the figure has no pouches, cross belts or weapons and has shoes rather than boots, meaning he is ripe for conversion of simply having leaving and being painted. The only thing that strikes me as odd is the hat, which looks very formal. A quick file to get rid of the top 'rim' of the hat and or filling it down would probably work </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and give a more fatigue cap look</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">as would a straight head swap . The raised right hand looks as if it should be holding a whip.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can use this figure as a driver for any wagon and with very little work or a simple head swap for almost any nation in the CW or FPW or with S range Napoleonics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is the figure on an Airfix wagon. The seat needs to be raised by 2mm either with card or as in this picture a small piece of laminated floor tile to allow the figure feet to sit properly.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></span>ABC Wargammershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565259869932116259noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7148285057281999389.post-8556778185677784912020-02-10T16:53:00.001+00:002020-02-11T12:54:21.355+00:00FPW Ambulance Part 2 - S range Casualties and make your own FPW Ambulance<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not sure if it is to do with my condition and the frequent trips to hospital but I seem to have become a bit fixated on Ambulances! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The more I looked at the anniversary
model of the British Red Cross FPW ambulance, the more obvious it was that it
was merely a standard Lledo standard model with transfers.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I therefore went on Ebay and found 2 Abels of
East Anglia Bros models unboxed and with no drivers being offered for 99p plus
2.90 P&P.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I put in a bid of £1.00
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based on the original FPW ambulance and cut it out of an old Christmas card. Easier to cut than cereal packet and thinner. I have included all the measurements if you
want to give it a go yourself. You will
need some extra lengths of 3mm wide strips of card to run along the plan front
face of the model, you just line these up with the window frame and one at the
bottom edge. I use Evostick wood glue
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am not entirely sure where I got
my model Minifigs carriage and passengers, but you can buy just the passengers
who I have converted into drivers, limber riders etc. There are 2 different models; WAGX3 is 2
British Napoleonic Officers – Open coach and WAGX4 two French Officers - Open coach. Needless to
say for my purposes it was off with their heads. I sacrificed one to make a seated figures for the
Foundry Prussian gun. For that exercise
I didn’t take that much care separating the 2 figures using snippers to cut
them apart and losing the arm of one of the figures in the process. Sensibly, I never threw that part away and he
has made an appearance as a Prussian cuirassier casualty (see below).</span></div>
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some emery paper and a file I was able to separate to two figures completely
without damaging either and this gave me two drivers, albeit one looks like he
is signalling a right turn!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since then looking at the Minifigs 25mm on line catalogue, I came across a picture of a Russian Wagon driver in fatigue dress RNX1. I have ordered 2 of these in the hope that, whilst they are not S range, they don't look as if they are modelled on the same lines as the more bulky 'Minifigs'. In which case I (and you dear reader) may be able to be able to do a simple head swap without all the cutting about. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From the various illustrations on line, 'uniforms' for these ambulance drivers and staff seem to be crosses between civilian and military uniforms, so it is a bit of free for all. I stuck with the British blue uniform for the drivers but somehow managed to give them new heads with Kepis which, when I painted them, left them looking a little American Civil War-ish. May change them. </span><br />
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created these ambulances (why does anyone need 3?) I felt there was a need for some casualties
to place around them. It was back to my
scarp box and collection of headless and arm less figures. Starting with the French General mentioned
above. I drilled and bent a bit of
florist wire so he could rest on the ground and then moulded some green stuff
around the wire to give him an arm. No
matter how many times I use this compound I am hopeless with it! The arm is too thick but after a lot of
unsuccessful fiddling I gave up and decided that paint deceives the eye! I gave him a Prussian Cuirassiers head which
saved me having to do too much alteration to the body.</span></div>
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other figure I had a lot of was the FPW artillery man with shell. Probably the easiest figure to work
with. I literally cut away the base with my metal
cutters and then filed to remainder back to the figures boots. File away the
shell and you can just leave it at that.
His hands are clutching his stomach.
I felt I wanted to reposition his left right arm so using my hand drill
I drilled a series of holes to help me get a scalpel into position to cut the
arm free. A tip here, drill through the
arm at the shoulder into the body first as this helps to reposition the arm
later. Separating the arms also allow
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adventurous you can use exactly the same figure to make a sitting pose. I merely cut the legs away from the
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walking wounded.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: -14.15pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: -14.15pt;">I was going to try to
use the same figure and attack it with a soldering iron but my nerves are still
not up to it.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: -14.15pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: -14.15pt;">So I had look at my spares
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: -14.15pt;">After all he has two legs and they are sort of at a stride.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: -14.15pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: -14.15pt;">So again, out came the metal cutters and my large and small files and some emery paper to remove
the saddle cloth etc. I drilled his arm at the shoulder as described took it off and repositioned it.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: -14.15pt;"> I squeezed the legs together a bit with a pair of pliers and bent one back, again with pliers, to give the appearance of a walk. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: -14.15pt;">I was going to get rid of the sword a</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: -14.15pt;">nd give him a cane to rest on, but
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What is even worse is that I have come across some pictures of Ambulances in the Crimea War!! In particular Dr. Smith's New Hospital Wagon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This may be a step tool far!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sorry about some of the pictures, my camera has developed a fault which I can't clear and will probably need to go back to Sony for repair.</span>ABC Wargammershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565259869932116259noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7148285057281999389.post-49283871301230398882020-01-24T19:51:00.001+00:002020-01-24T19:51:24.869+00:00Battle of Chongzhou: - a mostly Jacklex 20mm game<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I first got my diagnosis of
cancer and was given ‘months’ I thought it was time to have a sort out of the
figures and down size.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack had made me
a number of ships over the years which were really great but difficult to sell
on line because of their fragility and subsequent packaging.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I contacted gamers who I had been in
touch with over time to see if they were interested in the models and more
importantly could they physically collect them from my home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Payment was a voluntary contribution to Cancer
Research UK of what they thought the models and figures were worth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One gamer Richard Wells came up from
Kent to collect some ships and other bits and I have stayed in touch with him
and his progress towards getting his table sorted out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am delighted to say that the models have
finally hit the table and Richard has kindly sent me some pictures and a
description of his game which he has agreed that I can post on my blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">A British force under the command of General
Wells were instructed to relief a German and French force, running out of
supplies and tied up in a fort next to the River Sonlung very close to the
Chinese held town of Chongzhou.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">First the much larger Chinese navy had to be
defeated, before a dangerous landing could be attempted. The British navy
consisted of HMS Daring and HMS Endeavour and a machine gun armed launch.
Against them were arrayed 6 Chinese junks and 3 smaller dhows. Alas the Chinese
navy proved no match for the much better armed British boats and after some
extraordinary dice throwing the entire Chinese fleet was sunk in 3 moves, with
very little damage to the British ships.</span><br />
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realising it was imperative to stop the landing sent all his cavalry and a unit
of boxers to drive the Marines back into the sea before they could establish
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by the charging Chinese cavalry. That one volley managed to sweep away nearly
half of the Chinese cavalry at close range but the charge was carried through
and the Marines were beaten back into the sea, although they caused much damage
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shore, while the Boxers were closing in on the beach. The Marines in a
dis-organised state were driven back a second time into the Scots whose
firepower made some holes in the Chinese attackers. The Scots managed to land
and the Boxers after one round of fighting fled.</span></span><br />
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best. Chinese fire from the perimeter houses was highly inaccurate, as it was
prove to be throughout the battle. The French and Germans fought their way
through the houses forcing the Boxers into the open, but they had not realised
that a unit of the crack Tigermen were waiting on the other side. These charged
forward and despite loses forced the French and Germans back with their own
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the muddy river was now approaching the fort and relief was at hand. The
British infantry started their advance on Chongzhou with a regiment of cavalry
in support. The Navy’s ships poured fire into Chongzhou taking a particularly
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hand although both Cavalry forces were forced to regroup after 2 rounds of
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artillery were hopelessly inaccurate and were starting to take hits from both
the naval launch’s machine gun and the approaching British infantry as well as
a well placed German artillery piece which was firing from the fort. The
Chinese stormed out and managed to finish off the remaining Germans before
turning their attention to the Navy’s Gardner gun, which had started raking the
city’s battlements. Despite taking what they thought was good cover they were
mown down by the Gardner gun in two rounds of deadly fire, failing to score a
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sent his remaining Cavalry and himself up to the City’s main gate, armed
surprisingly with previously unknown explosives. They received casualties from
the Chinese defenders, but were able to lay the charges and then detonated them
successfully. The Chinese commander realised the situation was now utterly
hopeless and was forced to surrender. </span></span><br />
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next time to ensure the allied force do not have too many machine guns and
artillery as these were an overwhelming factor in their victory. Although this
was combined with some exceptional rifle fire by the British and a worse than
expected performance by the Chinese infantry. In hand to hand battle they
generally did quite well, but in a gun battle they were beaten every time.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most of the British figures are Jacklex 20mm available from Jacklex Miniatures </span></span><a href="https://www.jacklexminiatures.com/">https://www.jacklexminiatures.com/</a> . <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Boxers are mainly plastic figures from Orion, there are also some 20mm metal figures, including the Tiger Men but the make is unknown. </span></div>
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start a new project as such I have been tinkering around. I read about the
British Ambulance service in the Franco Prussian War.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was a volunteer service funded by public
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the British Red Cross launched a ‘limited edition’ model by Lledo of a Horse
Drawn Ambulance as used in the Franco Prussian War.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I picked one up on Ebay for a couple of
pounds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whilst it is said to be
carefully recreated from material held in the British Red Cross archives, the
model owes much to the Lledo models used for other commemorative and publicity models.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I decided to use this as the basis for a
model of a Franco Prussian War ambulance just to pass the time and keep my hand
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tuned into a bit of a dog’s dinner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
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for an S range conversion I made. I was
going to use a Prussian figure but then remade it with a British ‘cap’ more in
line with the description I was able to find on line. The horses had the usual LLedo ‘bobbed tails’
and poorly defined manes so I used a bit of ‘green stuff’ to make the tails and
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where it was used but I made up wording in the right size to retro fit if needs be. </span></div>
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ABC Wargammershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565259869932116259noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7148285057281999389.post-54100606559932520222019-12-21T13:25:00.001+00:002019-12-21T13:25:11.106+00:00The Last Christmas Post<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well this is a busy week for me, what with Christmas, my birthday on the 29th and then our wedding anniversary on 30th December, swiftly followed by the New Year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By common consent this looks like the last of these I will see, but you never know I didn't expect to get this far. I will keep posting and gaming for as long as possible, it would be great to reach the spring. I would however, like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your good wishes and encouragement over the recent months. I can assure you they have been greatly appreciated and uplifting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have really enjoyed running this blog and our sister site 'All Things Jacklex' and taking pictures (maybe too many on occasions) and it has been a source of some pleasure that so many of you have enjoyed them. You will have to put up with them a little while longer!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So a very Merry Christmas to you all and a Happy New Year.</span>ABC Wargammershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565259869932116259noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7148285057281999389.post-80937660577858093852019-12-18T17:06:00.001+00:002019-12-19T11:20:23.977+00:00Some extracts of the aftermath of Waterloo written in 1817<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">About
25 years ago or so I bought 2 volumes of the History of the Wars from a second
hand book shop in the Charing Cross Road in London. The spines were in a poor state and the
covers were detached on both volumes.
But they were printed in 1817 and contained amongst a host of other things, first-hand accounts of the
Battle of Waterloo and unusually, the aftermath.</span><br />
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them bound and repaired and they sat on the self and I would open them to get
information on naval engagements were I would find ships names, captains and
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town outside of London who wasn’t going to bankrupt me for repairing the books
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accounts of Waterloo they probably hold true for many of the battles of the
early 19</span><sup style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> century where warfare involved large numbers of troops. These are just a few of the many descriptions. The numbers may or may not be right but again come straight from the books.</span></div>
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field of battle the next morning presented a most melancholy sight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About 45,000 dead all of whom had been
stripped naked and perhaps the same number of wounded whom as yet it had been
impossible to remove lay crowed in a narrow space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Near 25,000 horses, dead or wounded lay mixed
with their former riders and increased the horrors of the scene.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was not so much the ghastly wounds which
had deprived them of life which disfigured them their mangled remains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But these had been further trampled by the
cavalry, crushed by the artillery and torn to pieces by the continued showers
of bullets vomited forth over the positions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The number of dead upon the field of battle, said an eye witness could
not be numbered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It presented on the 19<sup>th</sup>,
said one who saw it, a spectacle like an army asleep.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">‘For
many days several thousand carriages, and many peasants from the surrounding
countryside, even as far as Mons, were employed in burning or burying the
dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The task was not only loathsome,
but dangerous and the Prussians were absolutely forced to compel them at the
point of the bayonet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To avoid infection
from the corrupting remains, the peasants first dug large pits, and then, by
means of large hooks, dragged the bodies into them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The country for several miles, presented the
appearance of one continued large groups of hillocks, so thickly was its
surface covered with large graves in which hundreds of bodies of men and horses
were thrown together. In one acre of ground a beholder counted 40 graves thus
filled with dead’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">‘The
weather having become dry after the burial, the wet mould, which had not been
thrown over them to sufficient depth cracked from the heat, and opening ,
shewed, in<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>some places their ghastly
remains.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">‘Notwithstanding
the burning and burying, the smell from their putrid carcasses was insufferable
and a pestilential gale continued to be wafted over the surrounding countryside
from this theatre of death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For many
days the number of carrion flies which fed on the dead bodies was dreadful and
most annoying to those who visited the spot.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘It
is said that some soldiers absolutely lost their reason from the remembrance of
the dreadful scene’ </i>(an early account of PTSD?)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At
Houghmont every tree in the wood seemed as if blighted and were pieced with
cannon-bullets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some were pierced with
20.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The branches were broken off and
destroyed. Immense graves and dreadful heaps of ashes, the remains of burnt
bodies, marked the fatal spot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Broken
swords, helmets, torn epaulets and sabre sashes, bathed in blood shewed how
furious and destructive the battle had been here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mixed with these were seen the flaring red
poppy, rearing its head among the fresh dug mould’.....’Soldiers caps, pierced
with many a ball helmets, cuirasses, tattered clothes, cartouche boxes,
military decorations, crosses of the legion honour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>French novels, German testaments, packets of
cards, letters from lovers to the object of their affection, from parents to
their children mangled bodies, legs, heads in helmets intended to protect them,
and arms strewed in fearful confusion lay along these bloody fields’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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and extracts from British Officers recounting their recollections of the
battle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Interestingly amongst these is the
extract from a letter from Serjeant* Ewart of the Scots Greys who took the
French Eagle. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(*not a typo, the way it is
spelt in the book)</i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">‘The
enemy began forming their line of battle about nine in the morning of the 18<sup>th</sup>:
we did not commence till ten.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think it
was almost eleven when we were ready to receive them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They began upon our right<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with the most tremendous firing that ever was
heard, and I can assure you, they got it as bad as they gave it: then it came
down to the left, where they were received by our brave Highlanders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No men could ever behave better: our brigade
of cavalry covered them. Owing to a column of foreign troops giving way , our
brigade was forced to advance to support our brave fellows and which we
certainly did in style; we charged through two columns each about 5,000; it was
on the first charge that I took the eagle from the enemy; he and I had a hard
contest for it; he thrust for my groin – I parried it off and cut him through
the head; after which I was attacked by one of their lancers, who threw his
lance at me, but missed the mark, by my throwing it off with my sword by my right
side; then I cut him from the chin upwards, which went through his teeth; next
I was attacked by a foot soldier, who, after firing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>charged me with is bayonet – but he very soon
lost the combat, for I parried it and cut him down through the head; so that I
finished the contest for the eagle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After which I presumed to follow my comrades, eagle and all but was
stopped by the general saying to me “You brave fellow, take that to the rear:
you have done enough until you get quit of it:” which I was obliged to do but
with great reluctance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I retired to the
height and stood there for upwards of an hour, which gave a general view of the
field, but I cannot express the horrors I beheld; the bodies of my brave
comrades were lying so thick upon the field that it was scarcely possible to
pass and horses innumerable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I took the
eagle into Brussels amidst the acclamation of thousands that saw it’.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Prussian Spanish and other observers at the battle as well of course of
descriptions from both the British and French sides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But these two volumes contain so much more in
their densely packed text, the Battle of New Orleans; Nelson’s great naval
battles as well as many more much smaller but important naval engagements; and the campaigns in Portugal and Spain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My only question to myself is why didn’t I get them rebound and repaired
years ago?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"></span>ABC Wargammershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565259869932116259noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7148285057281999389.post-15073257927586003892019-12-08T12:03:00.002+00:002019-12-10T09:29:32.747+00:0028mm ACW - A little bit of Everything Game<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Well finally felt well enough after Chemo
treatment to try our 28mm ‘everything in the pot ACW game’</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I took a lot of pictures and I am afraid that
you will have to suffer a lot of them. Sorry. It also represents the last game on my big table in my loft - all dismantled now. Five flights of stairs in a Victorian London Terrace are proving more of a challenge! Still aim to carry on gaming for as long as I can but will use the dinning table instead. Also means Jack can join in as the can't do the loft!</span><br />
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and knowing how difficult these had been to take in other games using Black
Powder, we agreed that the Union forces should be further reinforced by another
Brigade of 4 regiments of infantry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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assault Bob relying on speed to try to get to the Confederate raider before she
could escape.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the militia unit guarding the herd. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was a freshly raised unit and the sight
of the Union cavalry struck terror into them only giving them a chance to hit
anything with a roll of D6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Needless to
say they missed and were cut down by the cavalry and the herd scattered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However the gunfire alerted the Confederate
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suddenly discovered it was being pursued by 3 Union boats .</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Not something I was expecting.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Shades of the Oxford and Cambridge University
Boat race.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Confederate boat couldn’t
pull clear enough to turn around to use it’s gun and I just had to keep going
towards the raider hoping all the time that Bob’s ships guns wouldn’t sink me!</span></div>
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river threat, the main gun on the raider was being loaded and turned to face
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Union bow guns that disordered the raider’s gunners that alerted then to the
real threat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the meantime they had
managed to score a direct hit on the 30<sup>th</sup> New York infantry
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further because of the Confederate defences, Bob decided to dismount first one
regiment and then the other and engage in a fire fight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This pinned the confederate forces.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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its bow gun to deal with the river boat threat, the rear gun was loaded and
turned to face a now growing infantry threat.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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alerted Col Jackson of the 47</span><sup style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Alabama whose regiment was engaged
in a fire fight with the Union cavalry.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Unable to leave the defences, he sent half his men to the river side to
fire at the passing Union boats to try to disrupt them.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">They managed to Disorder one reducing it’s
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get the slaves to revolt were failing but the Union troops kept advancing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A fresh Confederate Regiment came off the
train to prepare to take up position.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whilst
it proved impossible me throughout the entire game to roll any sixes to restart
the train’s boiler, I did manage one six to get one of the 2 raiders boilers
fired.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just needed one more six to get
the other one going and smash through Bob’s boats!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Confederates were taking little or no casualties, Bob’s Union force pushed on
across the entire front preventing me from moving troops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soon the Union the forces had moved to close
range and it was only a matter of time before they hurled themselves at the
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">On the river the slower of the Bob’s Union
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">But it was all going horrible wrong.
Everywhere except on the one section of defence’s left hand side my forces were
pushed back in melees. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Not only did the
Militia unit hold, they forced back the 1st US Sharpshooters, and seemed to be
doing well against the 80</span><sup style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> New York (with the smart yellow
flag).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Then it happened! A D6 and the
slaves seeing how close their saviours were decided to get involved! One shot
and a lucky D6 was all it took to disorder the Militia and the 80</span><sup style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">
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although the Confederate Marines put up a good show against the New York
Chasseurs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two of Bob’s infantry
regiments stormed through the gap and found the undefended side of the Raider
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out on the table, the rules, with a bit of common sense, worked surprisingly
well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Union would have failed
without the extra Brigade and we allowed the river boats to up their ‘stroke
rates’ on 2 occasions to be able to move 6 inches instead of three.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They couldn't reload when this was happening
and could only fire every other go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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throw a D6 for the Train and Ships boilers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We even thought we would change it in the course of the game, so you
only had to get above the number on the next roll to help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That of course was the only time we rolled a
six!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It was great fun anyway and good to see
everything out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack scratch built the
Church, the Rider and the Warehouse building, and some of the Boats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also made up the Black Hat regiment in one
of the pictures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The boat crews are from
Britannia Models Napoleonic range which head swaps from the Redoubt Naval and
infantry range with lapels and braiding cut away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The union sailors are First Corp, Confederate sailors are Redoubt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Almost all the other figures are Perry
Plastics, with the exception of a few Haitians from Trent Miniatures and a few African
Sailors from the Reviresco range.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />ABC Wargammershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565259869932116259noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7148285057281999389.post-24239424953579951382019-12-01T10:54:00.001+00:002019-12-01T20:28:54.121+00:00A Bit More Ancient Nostalgia - Chen's Persians<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I published pictures of my Ancient Assyrians which I painted over 45 years ago. At the time I said that I would try to get my old friend Chensie Chen to take some pictures of his 25mm Hinchliffe Ancient Achmaenid Persians. Like my Assyrians these were painted over 45 years ago and look like the paint has stood the test of time. Again, like my figures they have never seen action since the days when we would meet up on a Sunday and somehow use the old WRG 5th Edition rules.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So for a trip down memory lane when wargames figures were cheap(ish) I give you Chen's rather nice looking Persians.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Somehow these lads put up a good show against my Assyrians often beating them. I think it had to do with the Persian archers having the bonus of being behind shields in archery exchanges; the camels being disruptive and of course things I remember seeing constant arguments in the 'Slingshot' about two handed cutting weapons!</span>ABC Wargammershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565259869932116259noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7148285057281999389.post-57358482113027797862019-11-20T11:30:00.002+00:002019-11-26T11:22:17.764+00:0028mm ACW a little bit of everything<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bob has said that he haven't had our ACW figures out for some time and he is right. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As I have mentioned, the old cancer has made a come back and whilst the consultant tells me my response to chemo last time was remarkable (7 months without the need for further treatment) who knows what will happen this time. So just in case, I have various bits and pieces that I have made or Jack has made which have never been on the table so I decided to go the whole hog and put all those elements out. So we have buildings: cattle; a ship; gunboats; a train; defences; potentially rebellious forces; cavalry; infantry; ships guns; naval crews and marines all in one place. Heaven knows how the rules - or we will cope - but it may make for some pretty pictures if nothing else!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So this is the scenario.</span><br />
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repairing their river raider (scratch built by Jack) and restocking it. Supplies are being brought in by train
(Sarrissa). The Union aim is to capture
it. The Boilers are not working properly
and require two turns of (not consecutive) D6 to light and get them
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turn. The train must also be saved using
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defeated, as many Confederate troops should be evacuated or give their all to get
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are a group of armed slaves working for the Confederates, but is their loyalty
okay? They are untested and on a roll of
D6 will attack the defenders. There are some troops on the train – but how
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Union Forces</b><br />
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based troops have a ‘Boat Squadron’ of marines and sailors who’s aim is to try
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stuart Asquith's funeral is on Tuesday 19</span><sup style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
November.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There have been many kind
words spoken and written about his contributions to the hobby.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Up till now I have held off making my own because
I had hoped to do them following the funeral which is being held in
Cheltenham.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had planned to take Jack
or ‘Uncle Jack’ as he was known to Stuart’s children, with me but the dreaded
cancer has decided to make a return and I have to have more chemo on the 19th
so I can no longer attend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So I thought I would share my
thoughts and memories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I first met
Stuart at the Harrow Model Shop when it was on St Anne’s Road.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had visited the shop before to buy Jacklex
figures but this time I was going to purchase some Hinchcliffe ECW
figures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was Saturday 31<sup>st</sup>
March 1973.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is hard to credit that it
was so long ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember it because
it was the day when Red Rum won his first Grand National and I won the
sweepstake at work!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stuart was so easy
to talk to and gave me some useful advice on figures, the ECW and the size of
‘army’ to go for – 4 of foot, 2 of horse and a gun was the legend!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I walked out of the model shop with brown
paper bags full of figures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not sure I
paid the right amount.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After that I would go his house over
at Rayners Lane, he would pick me up and drop me back at the station and we
would wargame on his dinning room table, Stuart with pipe in hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I became an unofficial member of Stuart’s Rayners
Lane Wargame Group, and he would regularly host games involving two or three
players.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stuart introduced me to Bob
Black who I still wargame with and later to Jack himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We used the bayonet rules for the
ECW and worked our way through various armies and periods, swapping armies back
and forth; SYW, Ancients, Napoleonic’s, ECW always adding a unit here and
there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On a memorable occasion we
travelled up to Doncaster to stay with Stuart’s old wargame adversary and
friend Terry Wise and I can boast that I shared a bed with Stuart!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was also great friends with Ted Herbert (when did wargamers stop wearing ties?)</span><br />
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and spoke fondly of Charles Grant, unfortunately one of the wargame legend’s I
didn’t meet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stuart’s writing was always
important to him and I always felt he was trying to give something back to the
hobby that he loved. His army organisation,
for whatever period were thought out and often recorded. He, unlike me, knew when to finish his ‘army’
and move on to another period. </span></div>
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the breach to act as my best man, after my friend came down with flu the day
before. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eventually, Stuart and Beryl decided
to move from London to North Leach in Gloucestershire. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He called me before he left and said did I
want some 54mm figures.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Two Zafira car
loads later my loft was groaning under the weight!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jack and I went to visit Stuart and
Beryl a couple of times and often spoke on the phone and then for whatever the
reason we seemed to lose touch. When
Stuart heard about my cancer I got an amazing letter from him and we
communicated again through snail mail and by phone. In September with Bob and Jack on board I drove down to North Leach to meet
Stuart and Beryl . I was able to return lots of the 54mm figures to him. He had been unwell during the course of the
previous year and having not seen him for some years I was surprised. However, once we got upstairs and started
opening draws and looking at figures the old Stuart was back. His enthusiasm for
the various periods and ranges he had collected was wonderful to behold and as
always, he and Beryl were wonderful hosts.
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had thought it would be the last
time we would meet up largely because of my cancer, but little did I know. Jack has joked that he would be waiting for me at
the pearly gates, now hopefully it will be Stuart and we can resume our
wargames were we left off so many years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many thanks Stuart for
opening the world of wargaming to me</span></span>ABC Wargammershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565259869932116259noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7148285057281999389.post-29916761252962276772019-11-03T12:19:00.000+00:002019-11-03T12:20:12.461+00:00Egyptians and Assyrians a first try!<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Took my Assyrians over to Bob’s to take on his Egyptians this week. To be honest it didn’t go well. We both struggled to remember how the rules worked and really got bogged down trying to work out the morale outcome between the Assyrian and Egyptian chariots. Firing was simple and I had drawn up an OOB sheet which Bob copied across to his army which made unit and class identification easy. But in the end we were forced to abandon the game and resolve that we need to try some small scale actions solely to work things out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I used these rules virtually every Sunday for a game and for the life of me I couldn’t remember how to work things out, only that it never seemed this difficult! Anyway, I took a few pictures and we are determined that both armies deserve another proper outing!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bob’s army needs some work on the bases as they were rapidly stuck on anything that came to hand including some of the original beer mats! So we are going to have a base painting session to draw them altogether and give some cohesion. The Egyptians were aided by Hittites and an array of other troops! Many of the Hinchcliffe Hittites came via Stuart Asquith many, many moons ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The palm trees in these pictures are all off ebay. You can get some fantastic bargains and great looking trees. 15 trees for £7.00 or a different variety 12 for £6.00. Highly recommended. They come in different sizes and all sizes are ideal for 25/28mm. The small to mid range work for 20mm. They mix well together and can cover biblical to the present day and from Portugal in the west to the middle east and beyond. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wonder how many others still have the first army they ever finished. In my loft I found my Hinchliffe Assyrians (and a few Lammings and Garrison figures) that I painted over 45 years ago. I used the Airfix Guide to Ancient Wargaming for my Army List (1100 odd points) and played with the 5th Edition WRG rules. Many a Sunday was spent wargaming with my old friend Chensie Chen who has an Achmaenid Persian army mostly made up of Hinchcliffe figures. Although he hasn't wargamed for many many years, he still has them. Trying to get some pictures of his army for another bit of nostalgia!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bob is rushing to finish his Egpytian Army which was bought a very long time ago and remained only partly painted and we are going to try a game using the WRG rules. I can't see us getting into Ancients but it would be fun to use them again after such a long time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So for my enjoyment, hopefully as well as yours, I decided to give my Assyrians a parade!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As I suggested in my previous post,
the additional Japanese forces made the defences look at bit too strong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We therefore decided that 2 units should form
a reserve and I diced for what move they would come on – luckily it turned out to
be move 3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bob also rearranged the
Russian cavalry splitting them and pacing regular and Cossack cavalry on each
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Given my defensive position it was
down to Bob to take the initiative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
diced for brigade after brigade of Russian infantry and cavalry and not a
single unit moved!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only 2 moves left
until my reserves arrived!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His artillery
and machine gunners had a bit more like but fortunately I managed to save every
hit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Move 2 saw the Russian cavalry on
the right wing fail to response whilst the infantry suddenly awoke and surged
across the field.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the left the
infantry also charged across the battlefield making the Japanese trenches in a 3 command moves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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the odd rules in Black Powder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we
lived with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Russian cavalry on
this flank also decided to hang around and not move!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again the Russian artillery struck, this time
hitting one of the Japanese units and forcing them to retire as part of a Break
Test and leaving a section of earthworks undefended.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fortunately, no Russian infantry
were close enough to take advantage of this momentary success.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Japanese troops opened fire even
with a First Fire bonus they were very ineffective and to cap things off the
Japanese machine gun on the left flank jammed! On the Japanese right flank
closing fire and a heavy skirmish with a large Russian unit saw draw after draw
in the skirmishes but the Japanese kept witling away and the Russians were
eventually forced to take a Break Test which they failed badly and were
destroyed.</span><br />
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neighbouring earthworks with another Russian unit broken.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It wasn’t all going my way as the
machine gun on the right flank also jammed.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I managed to un-jam it with a D6 only for it to immediately jam again on
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flank was hit by artillery and forced to take a Break Test forcing it to fall
back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This left 2 Russian Units who in
turn charge the earthworks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This time
despite some initial resistance the already weaken Japanese unit was forced to
retire and their accompanying machine gunners cut down.</span><br />
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my infantry reserves arrived one regiment went to bolster the earthworks on the
left and the other turned its attention to the right and the Russians who had
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Things were looking a bit better.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the successful Russian regiments was
routed in a subsequent melee and the other facing fresh troops decided to
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What I can hear you wonder was happening on the Russian tight flank?</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Frankly </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nothing!</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After an initial rush across the battlefield they came to a staggering halt and just exchanged fire with the Japanese.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Neither side causing any significant casualties.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Russian machine guns which had been successful jammed on the same turn and the Russian gunners suddenly gave up on the idea of hitting anything.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lessons learnt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even allowing for 2 Japanese units to come on
as Reserves, the Japanese were too strong behind their earthworks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We should have allowed the Russians to have
recycled the units that were destroyed once from the starting line to increase
the number their numbers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With good
command rolls they could have made a difference. We need to look at the Rally to
Me orders in the Rules to see if whole brigades could be encouraged to move forward
rather than hang about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An attack on the
earthworks by the 4 units on the Russian right might have made it awkward given
the jammed machine guns and the lack of Japanese troops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I o</span>nly 2 units of infantry and 2 of cavalry
until the Reserves arrived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jack painted most of the Russian Infantry back in the day and all the Japanese infantry, gunners and cavalry in Khaki. He scratch built the Russian buildings (with the exception of a couple of 15mm resin buildings and the 20mm American Road Side Chapel) using cocktail sticks and foam board. The earthworks are my handiwork and made from Rendera gabions, DAS air dry modelling clay and coffee stirers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Better still, these wonderful Jacklex
figures are available again. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can buy all the original ranges and new
figures as well as download the ‘catalogue of figures’ from www.jacklexminiatures.com</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For those of you who also look at
our sister blog ‘All Things Jacklex’ you will already have heard of the saga of
Jack’s Japanese Army. Briefly, we have
been looking for this army for the last 8 years or so. I had been desperate to photograph it for the
blog and to have a game with them fighting the Jacklex 1904 Russians. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Japanese had been used against
my Zvevda Samurai following the release of the film the <b><i>The Last Samurai</i></b> and then been reflagged as Mexican Federal troops to battle Jack’s 1916 Americans. After which they simply
disappeared. The only conclusion was
they were somewhere in the dark reaches of Jack’s loft. Anyway, Jack’s daughter decided that the conservatory where
Jack now does all of his modelling and where we occasionally have a game, but
almost always sit and have a coffee and a chat needed a good tidy up. In his conservatory is a cabinet with his
54mm figures and underneath it and behind a pile of books she found the
Japanese. These had been literally
inches and at best 4 feet away from us for all of the 8 years we had sat and discussed
where they were!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I grabbed them and Jack's Russian Army
and have set up our first ever 1904 Japanese v Russians game in the 20 odd years we
have known Jack. Originally the the Japanese were heavily outnumbered and whilst they have a number of machine
guns, they were at a disadvantage, so I put them behind earthworks. However, with the help of Mark Lodge the new
owner of Jacklex Miniatures who very kindly provide me with a painted
unit and a couple of units of Blue coated Japanese I painted some years ago and a new unit painted with my doggy eyes. I</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">have managed to bump the Japanese infantry up from 3 units to 7. The Russians have 10 although 4 of them are 'large units' for our in house version of Black Powder with all the firing and fighting bonuses that come with it. So the Japanese may be a little too safe now behind their earthworks. They are however heavily outnumbered by the Russian cavalry. There may have to be a couple of minor changes before the games starts. We shall see.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Next week or so is a bit manic with a
cataract operation and then a trip to the Oncologist to check on the cancer and
the week after I am going on a family holiday to Portugal. I still hope to be able to meet Bob for a game before then, but just in case, I thought I would wet the appetite by
showing the game in its starting position and some of the units. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span>ABC Wargammershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14565259869932116259noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7148285057281999389.post-10532821389726417942019-09-08T12:18:00.000+01:002019-09-08T12:21:39.952+01:00Peter Laing WW1 -A trip down memory lane -Part 1 The British<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In a response to a post one of the comments mentioned Peter
Laing figures and this set me off on a trip down memory lane and I thought I
would share some pictures (a lot) with you.</span><br />
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German Peter Laing figures and vehicles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I say my figures, almost all came from Stuart Asquith many years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I added some of the vehicles and a couple of
tanks some were Peter Laing originals and some I made from plastic card.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those were the days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bob had the Russians and Austrians, unfortunately I don't have any pictures of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The last time they saw any action was at the time of the
Falklands War in 1982.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the time they
were reporting casualties and this all seemed too real and they got packed away
and left in boxes until 2012 when I sold them to Ian Drury. If you have ever seen any of Ian's Peter Laing figures you will realise just how well these figures can be painted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As I said there are a lot of pictures </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">so I have broken this down to 3 posts </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(sorry they aren't better but hopefully they are enough to evoke memories).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The British.</b></span></div>
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