Background In August 1760, Fredrick the Great of Prussia and his army made ready to repel further Austrian incursions into Prussian territory. When the Austrian offensive did come, it came in Prussian-occupied Silesia. However, a…
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BBB – Lace War Variant Play Test, Battle of Mollwitz.
It has been quite some time since we did a little work using Bloody Big Battles rules. However, I have been meaning to try a Lace Wars variant for the game for…
15mm Napoleonic Prussians
I somewhat recently posted some 15mm Prussians I picked up from Gajo and finished up. Well, I finally got around to putting them away with the rest of my Prussian troops. Much…
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…
BBB – Battle of Kesselsdorf, December 1745.
Background The Battle of Kesselsdorf was fought on 15 December 1745, between the Kingdom of Prussia and the combined forces of the Archduchy of Austria and the Electorate of Saxony during the part of the War of the Austrian Succession known…
Gajo 15mm Napoleonic Prussians and Portuguese.
I was checking on the Gajo sight and saw they had restocked their 15mm Prussian Grenadier and Portuguese infantry for the Napoleonic Wars. I wanted a unit of Grenadiers to go with…
Gajo Napoleonic Cavalry.
I was cruising the Gajo painted mini website to pick up a few Italians to fill out one of my FoW companies. While doing that, I saw they have restocked their Napoleonic…
BBB, Lace Wars Variant – Battle of Mollwitz, April 1741.
Background The Battle of Mollwitz was fought by Prussia and Austria on 10 April 1741, during the First Silesian War (in the early stages of the War of the Austrian Succession). It was the first battle of the new Prussian King Frederick…
BBB – Battle of Bourny/Colombey, August 1870.
We continued our Franco-Prussian theme by playing the Battle of Bourny/Colombey (14 August 1870). This was a fighting withdrawal action that turned into a general engagement. The French were trying to withdraw…
BBB – Battle of Froeschwiller (Woerth), August 1870
After using Bloody Big Battles (BBB) to play some games set in the Napoleonic era, we decided to return to the era for which BBB was written, namely, the late 19th century,…