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Monday 23 November 2009

Crimean War French

Here's our French Army for the Crimean War.  Again put together from a variety of sources, different odds & ends.  It would be nice to add some Cuirassiers and Guard Infantry.  SmoggyCon a Game show in our local town is due this weekend, so we'll be looking for those special extra pieces to finish off a few armies. 

Crimean War French
1 General, 8 x Rifles, 2 x Cavalry, 2 x Artillery


Ze French!



 


Ground level view of the French


French  Rifles


Foot Artillery & Limbers


The superb Chasseur d'Afrique Cavalry.


French Line Infantry

Wednesday 18 November 2009

More Crimean War Brits

Our forces for the Crimean War are coming along nicely.  The British are completed, apart from flags (our colour printer has ran out of ink, there's another cartridge for an horrendous amount of cash...ggrr).  The French has been put together, pics of them later.  The Russians are on the paint table now & hopefully will be completed in a couple of weeks.

Here are some pics of the British force, first up personalities from Eureka Minis available from Fighting 15's.  They are 18mm and obviously BIG next to 15mm, but I reckon we can get away with them.  Anyway they are a lovely figure to paint.  http://www.fighting15sshop.co.uk/300cmw41-british-command-set-985-p.asp

The cavalry are shown next, we just need some more Heavy Dragoons to finish off the Heavy Brigade.  Plus there's some artillery, I've been obsessed with collecting limbers for every artillery piece.  Odd as limbers play no part in DBx rules, but there you go & they look nice.


Eureka 18mm Crimean War British Command


Raglan & Lucan 


CARDIGAN! & naughty Nolan


ADC & Scarlett


The Light Brigade in all their glory.
(They've been put together from odd leftover figures).




"NO NOLAN that won't do!" 





Scarlett leads forward the Heavy Brigade.
Royal Horse Artillery provide support.


Royal Horse Artillery looking lovely.


Foot Artillery


The Fine & Dandy Naval detachment.

Tuesday 17 November 2009

DBA II/18c Kassandros Macedonian Successor

Here's our DBA II/18c Kassandros - Early Macedonian Successor Army.  Not many options just a Spear or Jumbo.  With a few extra elements you can pretty much make up any of the Macedonian Armies.

Link to Kassandros on Wikipedia   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kassandros


DBA II/18c Kassandros Macedonian Successor 
1x3Kn(Gen), 1x3Cv, 4x4Pk, 4x4Ax, 1xEl or 4Sp, 1x2Ps


The mighty Kassandros Army ready for battle




An unusual four elements of Auxilia


The heroic Javelin chucking Psiloi


Spears


Jumbo


The very effective four Pike mob


Knight General and Cavalry

Saturday 7 November 2009

DBA Big Base Romans vs Dacians

We had a visit to our site from Arnstein Orten, he left some nice comments on our Battle of Stamford Bridge game.  Arnstein was in fact the fella who wrote the scenario, so a big thank you to him.  I paid a visit to his DBA web site, very nice indeed... http://folk.uio.no/arnsteio/DBA/   It's well worth a visit, plus I found the section on 'quadruple DBA' very interesting.   After a moment of pondering, stroking the chin and going 'hmmmm' inspiration strikes.  So........

Here we go using our 15mm Armies, Romans we've got tons of them, so they would make up one force.  Opponent wise, it would have to be a Barbarian Army, so we settled on the Dacians (anything to include Sarmations..).  We used some Germanic Troops as Dacian Allies to make up the numbers.



One normal base of Romans becomes 4 bases....



One normal base of Knights becomes four, you get the picture..



The Battlefield, Jack would play the Dacians, I the Romans.


The mighty Roman Host.


The Roman Centre


The Roman Cavalry


The Dacians and their Sarmation Allies.  Jack persuaded me to let him have another Sarmation Knight element, being a nice bloke, I let him.


The Dacian Centre, loadsa Warband....


We're off.  OOOoopss for the first turn we used the 15mm movement range. 
We changed this to 25mm for the rest of the game.


Jack's Sarmations are off, his Blades cover the woods.


Oh, what a lovely sight...


Roman Blade and Auxilia advance.


The Roman General is sitting pretty.


Dacian and Germanic Warbands.


ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK


Roman Blades would face the Sarmations, would it be a good move???


The Roman Artillery strikes..


Come of lads, hack those Knights down!


Oh my, there's a few Barbarians lined up there!!!




The Warband take out the Roman Artillery...


Then force back the Roman Auxilia


On the other flank, the Dacian Psiloi are knocked back.


Typical, the Sarmation Knights run down the Romans.


Then advance forward.


Mind you, they do look very impressive...


The Roman General helps out.


The Roman Auxilia charge in to cover the Sarmation advance.


Come on the Romans!


Aaarrggh! This one is getting away from me.


Meanwhile the other Sarmations are forced back


Jack's turn and he sees the path to the Roman General open....


The mighty armies clash!


The end is near for the Romans as the flanks collapse.


One kill for the Romans!


Plus the Romans force back the attack on the hill.


That's victory to the Dacians & Jack.


But to finish the turn, Jack eliminates my Roman General.... Ggggrrr



A nice little game, obviously the purpose of the Big Base elements is to enhance the visual aspect of it.  I must admit, it did look very impressive.  The massed hordes of warbands looked brilliant.  Game wise, why did I let Jack have another element of Knights? A D'oh moment indeed when they matched up against the Roman Blades.  We'll try Big Base DBA again, now what other Armies can we have....?