Next up was the cavalry for the Spanish army in the War of Spanish Succession. Hours, dragoons and hussars. I also needed some dismounted dragoons to fit a couple of OOBs. I…
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Lace Wars Spanish Army Infantry
Next up on the basing and finishing backlog, was my War of Austrian Succession Spanish Army. This allows me to field the “other side” in scenarios for the Italian campaign. All figures…
Valor and Fortitude II Rules Review.
Our group has recently be running games using the Perry brothers Valor and Fortitude rules. We had been on the look out for simple rules for running small and medium sized battles…
R&P – Race to Freedom.
I had just run a Rebels and Patriots scenario and the players all were interested in another game. I had planned on running the same game and just switching sides, but the…
R&P – Battle without Snow Shoes.
It was my turn to run our Tuesday musket period game and I decided to pull out Rebels and Patriots for the group, as we had not done a game of this…
BBB – Battle of Mars-la-Tour, August 1870.
Background This battle, one of the most sanguinary of all those that were fought during the Franco-Prussian war, took place on August 16th, 1870. The French, defeated all along the line, had…
V&F – Battle of Huesca, May 1837
The Game
Rebels & Patriots – Recruit the Huguenots!
Horse and Musket Tuesday time had come and I am back from my various traveling. Now that my basement repairs a finally done, I can finally get back to my collection and…
Valour and Fortitude II, Rules Review.
We recently played an Indian Mutiny game using the Perry Brothers Valour & Fortitude rules. The rules came out last year as an insert in the October 23 Wargames Illustrated magazine. I…
Rebasing My Thirty Years War Troops
Some time ago, I picked up some TYW dragoons and pimped them up to fill out my TYW/ECW troop selection. I decided to experiment with a new basing model for the army…