| AuvergneWargamer | 28 Aug 2014 5:23 a.m. PST |
Mes Amis, This has arrived!!!
Can't wait to order some!!! Cheers, Paul |
 deadhead  | 28 Aug 2014 7:08 a.m. PST |
Poor old Tango/Armand will be mortified. Someone else has beaten him to it, just for once. The limber and the articulated caissons are quite remarkable and unique of course to this lot. Marvellous modelling and casting. You have to admit, NR does have talent! |
 Artilleryman | 28 Aug 2014 8:02 a.m. PST |
Absolutely fantastic. I am never quite sure how I am going to integrate support vehicles into a game but I cannot resist them nonetheless. Another tough time for the wallet. |
| deadhead | 28 Aug 2014 8:15 a.m. PST |
Never played a wargame and I know this has been discussed recently, but I can see your problem. These will have quite a "footprint" once horses attached and based. Again much discussed, but it must be too easy to just line up your "battery" and ignore the ammo supply necessary to function…..and the obstacle and target that creates. Bit like any building that is actually the scale size of a sizeable village on a table. But, like the buildings, as you asked, how can you resist them? |
| 14th Brooklyn | 28 Aug 2014 1:03 p.m. PST |
The rules we use have an area behind the artillery batteries that is taken up by their artillery park. That is what I am using these kinds of models for. The bases for the artillery park are large and on a eight gun (four model) battery there is enough enough space for one to two caissons or forge and some troops forming a little scene. Cheers, Burkhard |
| deadhead | 29 Aug 2014 11:10 p.m. PST |
and they then must realistically make a more tempting target than the guns themselves. Face on a "battery" must make for a tricky target indeed.
We can look forward to the drivers of the Bavarian train as well of course!
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| AuvergneWargamer | 30 Aug 2014 3:08 a.m. PST |
Hi Burkhard & Deadhead, I always use limbers and caissons with my artillery if I've got the right ones. I know it makes the artillery footprint cumbersome and they make maneuvering difficult for the troops around them but I think that's just realistic. My limbers do have only 4 horses despite there being a need to use 6 or 8 horse teams to be truly historically accurate! Otherwise the artillery would just be too cumbersome to deploy! Like so many things, it's about seeking the right balance between realism, the look of the game and practicality. However, I can't stand 2 horse limbers as these just look silly! I use General de Brigade Rules and 4 horse limbers work well with them! Cheers, Paul |
| AuvergneWargamer | 20 Oct 2014 11:50 a.m. PST |
Mes Amis, Very pleased to report that the Perry twins now have images of their forthcoming Bavarian limbers and caissons on their website:
Hope that they're available soon!
Cheers, Paul |
| Supercilius Maximus | 21 Oct 2014 3:03 a.m. PST |
I really hope there will be some extra riders for the wurst. |
| von Winterfeldt | 21 Oct 2014 5:06 a.m. PST |
"I really hope there will be some extra riders for the wurst." Well – looking how the Perrys are sculpting a range, most likley there will be eventually |
| AuvergneWargamer | 12 Dec 2014 2:26 p.m. PST |
Hurrah! The limbers and caissons have now arrived! link Don't they look fantastic! Can't wait to get some. Cheers, Paul |
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