"Shako 2 Peninsular Game - July 2009" Topic

Chaps,

This is a thread created for no reason better than showing off my nearly completed pair of Peninsular armies in 25/28s. Next weekend will be the third anniversary of this project and I'm pleased I stuck with it even when it felt like I wasn't getting anywhere.

A link to a few pics of our most recent Shako 2 game, hosted by me on my 9x5 table – clearly I need to think about expansion, or use fewer toys. Expansion it is then.

Peninsular Wargaming Prawn: link

I've had half a dozen games with Shako 2 now and find the speed and coherency easily outweighs the foibles.

Michael.

Golly! what a fantastic display!

corr thats a lot of men.

1376 to be precise. I've painted over a thousand myself and eBay has supplied the rest. By several multiples the biggest project I've ever done [wargaming anyhow] – and that is in 25 years of gaming.

Makes my ping-pong table look too small!

blimey that is impressive, problem is that being a gamer you no doubt have more to paint?

I'm deliberately winding down the project and in the early stages of another [1st Crusade] – in conjuction with Blucher of TMP. To make these a balanced pair and credible/generic for the Peninsular I do need some more Spanish. I have been surprisingly efficient/ruthless in maintaining the lead stock at a low level. On t'other hand I was putting in an order with Foundry [these are 90% Foundry] nearly every month. If I see 'bargains' on eBay I'm still interested though.

Very nice!

Congratulations on amassing such a fine collection.

More than 30m of magnabase used so far. Collection has a mass of 28kg. I have a spreadsheet to tell me these things. I need help, clearly.

ha ha excel rules.

After painting up just under 500 – 28mm Austrians, I understand. Most of us in Napoleonics need help…

That is a great photo.

Thanks for sharing, mindblowing!!!

Wrgmr1,

If I was starting again from scratch [shudder] I might go with Austrians rather than British+Allies.

Angelbarracks,

I use Powerpoint for organisation/OOB images :) Example further back at same link I gave at begining

I noticed your inf bases are more wide than deep. I was wondering what size there were? 50x40mm maybe?

Nevermind, I found same question and answer in another post. :)

mmmm, Kronenberg 1664…

Noss,

40x30 for infantry. 80x60 for horse and guns. Four bases per battalion. The best compromise I could generate to be able to switch between GA, Shako 2 and LFS – and other systems.

Lord Hill,

My Elso terrain tiles have built-in drinks mats. For a moment I did wonder if you'd musjudged the battle-era by about 145 years!

Blimey: I have similar numbers in 10mm and it blows my mind! Your basing etc means you can use 'Napoleons Legacy' rules btw ;-)

Congratulations…great collection and I sympathise…I have amassed a collection of over 1000 AWI Perry and Foundry models that has taken me 5 longs years to paint..at the end now thank god…but those Perry negro militia look tempting….I MUST STOP

It looks to me like French battalions have 16 figures on stands which accomodate a 2-deep arrangement.

Is this correct? That would make the figure scale something like 1-25. Is that correct?

Nice looking game and layout. That's a lot of figures to get onto a 9x5 table. Very appealing to the eye.

Widowson – all my battalions are 16 figures. All based 2x2 on 40x30mm bases.

I've deliberately based generically to allow use with as many rules sets as possible.

DAF – Ta. I hope to improve my terrain soon – a custom cloth to match the basing.

Thats one VERY crowded table! But I like it! Good stuff!

Bob