"I realy hate Lord Ashram right now" Topic

That is going to cost me lots of money

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Any era worth wargaming is worth modelling in two or more scales. Go for it.

What!! you can't say B.a.s.t.a.r.d??

When it is beeped it looks like I said someting much much worse

I gane AWI in 28mm, and my gaming buddies do it in 15mm.
Somehow, we remain friends.

B….. is bad enough

Please use "dastard" as this is the 18th Century board.

Wow! Lovely game! I cast "iron will" on myself and ignore the possibilities!

Seriously, I could see how you would get hooked on those figures.

B….. is bad enough

He knows I love him, but right now he is a dastard, even if I do the table cheap it's alteat a $150 USD in material.

And ofcourse over 200 for a starter force of 40mm,

Once you do 40mm American Revolution, then you will naturally want to game 40mm ACW. I mean, you will already have the terrain that you need for that project(same buildings, fences, etc are used in both periods).

Heh, heh, heh.

Yeah, but AWI can be done with a few units. a mean 12 units

Is up to 4200 soldiers, thats a prety regular if some what small AWI battles.

4200 in the ACW is nothing, I need twice that to do division vs diviion game.

I could ofcourse do ACW skirmish that would work

Ahhh I got very nervous there!:D

Don't hate me… hate Dave Bonk! Those are his stunning troops. Trust me, I was SOO hurt… there was a prize at the end for the player of the game… 25 bucks to Sash and Saber! I would TOTALLY have bought 40mm AWI with it! However, I did not win… my job was just to occupy the enemy at the front and prevent him from moving, which I did, but it was none too spectacular, even though my militia saw off a charge from some British Grenadiers and some Hessians!

Honestly, I would say be wary of 40mm. You really need a HUGE space, I think, to do a real nice game, and I know you are like me in that you don't have a HUGE table… I would buy just a few to start, paint them up, and then put them on the table… they have roughly the same footprint as 28s, so it might be fine, but before you go all-in I would definitely see how they look on the table:)

Good luck!

So what you're saying, is that Dave Bonk is the dastard?

His terrain makes me whince when I compare it to my meager efforts.

I gave 40mm a try with F&IW, but later decided that 28's were the way to go for me. S&S does some lovely miniatures in 40, but as Lord Ashram mentioned it takes a lot of space to do it justice.

Now, I need to go about the business of getting my gaming table to look like THAT one!

Ahhh I got very nervous there!:D

That was the point.

Yeah, I'll only buy two units to start with,, I know the Arty takes up HUGE space, but I can get 6 infantry on 50x50 base so a 24 fig unit takes up 20cm in length.
Thats actualy less then what my 28mm AWI figs take, they are 24cm to 24 figs.

So in that way it should take about the same space as 28mm figs. What realy makes a diffrence on how "big" the table is, is the marching and fireing distances.

I have been thiknig of useing cm in stead of inches in movment just to make the table seem bigger.

Fritz are you stalking me? You know darn well I'm getting into ACW and AWI 40mm, hell I might even use Rusty's Rules.
I believe I will not be able to paint many more 25mm and they are bought by me painted. I'm pretty sure I can see the 40's and I like them a lot. They add something I can't describe. Though I won't have 25 and 40 AWI, (I sold all the figures (painted Front Rank, sigh) I will have by jingo 25 and 40 ACW. Get with it GunFreak!

I picked up my first 40mm at fall in. 1 unit of syw/f&i British regulars that I am planning to paint as Maryland Provincials for F&I. Beall's Company, Red faced black.
I plan to buy a unit of French Regulars at Cold Wars. Right now I am painting some 28mm French from Imperialist with Old Glory Command for WSS (I use them for WAS and SYW too).

V/R

Joe

Yep,
All those guys in the TSS [Dave Bonk, Chris of Sash and Saber, etc.] drive me crazy with their great games and terrain. In fact, my wife blames them for my recent forays into the MAW, which means she can't get her shoe fix!

Can't wait to see what they've got cooked up for Hystericon in Baltimore or wherever it is. This will be the first H-con I've attended in over 5 years, so I'm looking forward to seeing and playing in some visually stunning games.

Well I've seem to have gotten a dealer for fences, and fields, I've also bought lots of flocking material og scenic cement ect.

So will se how the table turn out.

Sadly I have to wait until the 25th before I can buy 40mm figs

I have AWI in 6, 10,15,28,and now 40mm!

The 15mm's gotta go though! Painted an unpainted. Anyone interested??

Bob

Truly awesome! I just found my motivation for today! Thank you!
That AWI game is stunning! Whats more, not a Betsy Ross flag to be seen! He is my hero!!

Bob

I've decided to do it all with Sash & saber figs, they are easly the cheapest, and as thoese pics show they look great when painted right.

I did sniff at Front Rank, but they are 50% more expenive, even with my small battle, it would mean lots of money, also marching only figs looked good in that game, so it will look good in mine.

Expected price is 3600NOk or about $650 USD not the most expencive project I've done, but not the cheapest either.
That does not include terrain and shipping.

I see there were some dismounted 16th Lt Dragoons in the picture? Who produces them? I NEED THEM…… NOW!

BTW……. nice looking game! I see he has a GM building on the table!

I see there were some dismounted 16th Lt Dragoons in the picture? Who produces them? I NEED THEM…… NOW!
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Perry makes them in 28mm. No clue if anyone does them in 40.

Bob

Well I've orderd 3 full battalions worth figs, and two guns, 4 general officers and american rifles and british light infantry

Cost $328 USD

I also got the carnage and glory rules to day

Gunfreak, 40's are great, I am putting together a collection, mainly Front Rank but I have also got hold of a load of Trident stuff, am also backing it up with Sash&Sabre, when I get out Norway next try and meet up? you can get me on coloneltavington@yahoo.co.uk

I did dable in 40mm napoleincs for skirmish, this was one of my early atempts at painting, to be honoest, they look crap now, my 15mm figs I paint now are sevral hundred times more detailed and shaper paint, I look forward to see just how detailed I can get the 40mm figs.

I'm waiting for the trident hessain musketeers I want my von bose regiment.

the 40mm realy dosn't take much more room then 28mm, but are normaly a lot more detailed. very curious

PS, yes if you are ever in oslo, we might have a game, if I got enough units ready

Front Rank have released their British "Fusiliers" they will also be releasing their Hessians in the spring! Trident are really good and mix well with Front Rank, to be honest I look all the ranges from each of these companies.

My problem with Front rank is that they are a good 50% more expencive then S&S and about 40% more then trident,

Now this has more to do with the pound vs dollar then over priceing, but still, it's a lot of money, for allready expencive from of gaming

Ah blody hell, I order a unit of Fusiliers from front rank.

I know fusiliers realy didn't use the cap at all during the war, but since I'm going for the range of uniforms and color I might as well buy them.

I have my 28mm project for strickt historical accuracy when it comes to uniforms.

So what that the 1768 warrent uniforms were rearly used during the war, what if the fusiliers didn't use the cap ect. it looks good on the table