| RCDragoon | 18 Mar 2010 3:13 p.m. PST |
Has anybody heard any information on the release of the Victrix British foot artillery. Will it contain a limber and horse team? Looking forward to adding some fire power to the game. |
| TodCreasey | 18 Mar 2010 7:04 p.m. PST |
I can't wait for this one either! |
| Kipper | 19 Mar 2010 2:04 p.m. PST |
There will be three guns and crew and limbers in the Artillery box. Pretty exciting |
| Runicus Fasticus | 19 Mar 2010 8:33 p.m. PST |
well I have hanovarians waiting for those guns and a battery of horse artillery as well when it is ready. |
| pbishop12 | 20 Mar 2010 8:26 p.m. PST |
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| Constantine | 21 Mar 2010 5:51 a.m. PST |
Anyone got some pics? I'm really excited about this… |
| STEVE LBMS | 21 Mar 2010 6:54 a.m. PST |
Just seen this thread. We will be showing some pictures soon and putting out a news release. We are really pushihg to get this set out for Salute. The set will contain 3 guns and 3 limbers with options to make the guns as 5.5 inch howitzers, short 6 pdr, long 6 pdr or 9 pdr. There will be 15 crew figures with options for Peninsular or Waterloo with many interchangeable arms.
There wont be horses and out riders in the set as this made it far to expensive a set to produce and realisticly hope to get costs back. We will be producing horse teams and riders in metal. News item with pictures sometime this coming week. Steve. |
| Constantine | 21 Mar 2010 7:26 a.m. PST |
*starts drooling and holding breath* |
| RCDragoon | 21 Mar 2010 8:13 a.m. PST |
Thanks everybody. I am watching the website daily. |
| Canuck64 | 21 Mar 2010 11:26 p.m. PST |
Great news Steve! Can you give us any update on your future Austrian release's and plans for the French artillery? Thanks! JD |
| Runicus Fasticus | 26 Mar 2010 6:09 p.m. PST |
News item with pictures sometime this coming week. Ok Steve..this week is almost over ,,,this waiting is killing me. |
| lebooge | 26 Mar 2010 7:04 p.m. PST |
This is exciting news. Hopefully some French artillery is in the pipeline as well! |
| Serotonin | 27 Mar 2010 11:50 a.m. PST |
Really dumb newbie question, but would there be any problem with swapping the Brit figures out for French ones, or are the artillery pieces massively different in design? |
| Runicus Fasticus | 27 Mar 2010 5:38 p.m. PST |
the french guns have a double trail system on their gun carrages,why english guns of the time (except for howitzers) had a single trail on the carrage. Runicus |
| Constantine | 28 Mar 2010 3:36 a.m. PST |
News item with pictures sometime this coming week. Still holding breath…. Any news, Steve? |
| WW2wargaming | 28 Mar 2010 2:23 p.m. PST |
Really hope these are ready for Salute! |
| Low Roller | 31 Mar 2010 2:33 p.m. PST |
Any news or pics steve?
I really hope these are ready for Salute,
I only have 1 more box of Brits to finish and they may need some support :-) |
| summerfield | 31 Mar 2010 2:43 p.m. PST |
Dear Tim
The RHA had block trail 6-pdrs, Long 6-pdrs, Light 12-pdrs and Howitzers from their creation. Recieved the royal patent in 1793 but existed before. Drawings of the block trail howitzer are in Dupin (1820) that will be reprinted by Ken Trotman this year. If you look on the Ken Trotman site, I have used the drawing of the howitzer for the logo on the Adye (1813) Bombardier and Pocket Gunner. The RA was much slower to go across to block trail and were only finally fully converted in late 1813-14. All RA had block trail at Waterloo. This is a complex story. The 9-pdr was always on block trail. It is probable that the RA companies never received the 6-pdr block trail. Again there is still much to resolve. The last British bracket carriage had parallel cheeks and the axle from the block trail. So looked like the late M1816 pattern Prussian carriage with the British elevating screw. All guns had 5 foot wheels. The bracket carriage that most people reproduce is from a howitzer cast in 1780s that was present to China and was capture in the Opium Wars. The carriage has been much shortened Congreve bracket carriage that was used in the AWI. Stephen |
| Lord Hill | 31 Mar 2010 5:10 p.m. PST |
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| woundedknee | 01 Apr 2010 6:38 a.m. PST |
Do concentrate Lord Hill. |
| woundedknee | 01 Apr 2010 6:43 a.m. PST |
Constantine has been holding his breath for more than 263 hours now. Is this a TMP record? |
| Constantine | 01 Apr 2010 8:39 a.m. PST |
Dunno… But I'm starting to turn a little blue. Is that a bad thing? |
| Private Matter | 01 Apr 2010 7:46 p.m. PST |
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| Lord Hill | 05 Apr 2010 1:04 p.m. PST |
News item with pictures sometime this coming week. that was a bit of a fib wasn't it |
| STEVE LBMS | 14 Apr 2010 1:54 p.m. PST |
'that was a bit of a fib wasn't it' It's up on the website now.A bit longer than expected but I was having to finish laying out the box art to send to the printers. No time for anything else when you have a print deadline to meet! An unintentional/unavoidable delay I would call it.
News has been submitted to TMP but has not gone up yet. Steve. |
| STEVE LBMS | 14 Apr 2010 2:02 p.m. PST |
Canuck64, Sorry for not answering your question, I have not been looking at this thread for a while. I was going to show some photos of the Austrians so far but we have decided to hold back as I want to make some improvements to the models. They need a bit of extra work before I am happy to show them off. You know what some TMP members can be like when they have an axe to grind. So I would like to gve them as little ammunition as possible. (Don't know why I am bothering to be so picky as they will still moan!) Austrians are still on target for this year. Steve. |
| Lord Hill | 14 Apr 2010 2:54 p.m. PST |
They look fantastic. Can't wait! We should all get down on our knees and thank the great gods Victrix and Perrys, amazing figs at affordable prices. |
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