Mal Wright  | 22 Dec 2009 6:02 a.m. PST |
I need some nice big, satisfyingly huge, frightening siege guns for my 15mm War of Austrian Succession armies!!! None of the usual figure supplies seem to have photographs on their sites so its not possible to tell what the various choices look like. Can anyone recommend some? I've got mortars. Huge, Big, Medium and small. But no siege guns. |
| Sysiphus | 22 Dec 2009 6:10 a.m. PST |
Oh, buy some 25mm battalion guns, they should be large enough to pass for siege pieces in 15mm |
| Sysiphus | 22 Dec 2009 6:12 a.m. PST |
Or, find the Ottoman/ Moghul guns from the MiniFigs Renaissance range; they are suitably large enough. And get some oxen to pull them while you're at it  |
| Mal Wright | 22 Dec 2009 6:19 a.m. PST |
Hmmmmm! I had toyed with the idea of some 20mm 12 pdrs and reduce the wheel size! But they gotta be huge and ugly. No self respecting defense is going to be scared into surrendering otherwise. You dont want to roll out your siege train and have all the defenders fall about laughing! |
| vtsaogames | 22 Dec 2009 6:54 a.m. PST |
Minifigs makes 15mm 24 pounders. I've not seen them but like the medium guns I've seen just fine. |
| clibinarium | 22 Dec 2009 7:12 a.m. PST |
Hallmark do lovely early 18th century guns and equipment, I think they have a 24 to 32 pdr seige gun. I owned only some of their lighter guns but they were truly beautiful. |
| zippyfusenet | 22 Dec 2009 7:30 a.m. PST |
I have some of the Minifig 24 lbrs. They're big and long, 1/3 again longer than the Austrian 12 lbrs, with bigger carraiges. |
Frederick  | 22 Dec 2009 7:41 a.m. PST |
You could always use some of the Games Workshop Dwarf cannon in 28 mm – those would be really, really big – since they have one in their boxed set, I always see a few at the local hobby shop |
| Dennis | 22 Dec 2009 8:36 a.m. PST |
"…the designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. ‘Make it evil,' he'd been told. ‘Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them.
If that means sticking all sorts of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with.'" – Douglas Adams |
| leidang | 22 Dec 2009 9:04 a.m. PST |
As Clibinarium says the hallmark 24-32 lbr is the way to go. I have several and they are very nice. They look siutably impressive next to 15mm figs. |
| Mal Wright | 22 Dec 2009 6:52 p.m. PST |
Suitably impressive is a good start!
Now are there any 'totally over awing' types out there? I have however heard, that the Hallmark guns are very good. |
