"Battle of Leuthen AAR" Topic

I have posted a number of pictures of the wargame that we played recreating the Battle of Leuthen on December 5, 1757;

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Click on the above link to Der Alte Fritz Journal blog for more pictures. We used 28 and 30mm figures at a 1:10 figure to man ratio, or infantry battalions of about 60 figures.

The terrain was built largely by Herb Gundt (buildings, trees and roads) and the winter game mat was made by The Terrain Guy, sadly out of business.

The figures were everything under the sun including Suren, Stadden, Crusader, Foundry, RSM, Elite Miniatures and Hinchcliffe, among others

Great looking game,beautiful stuff as always.

Beautiful and inspiring, as usual.

Yes, very nice.

Why don't you base your infantry closer to each other? it would be more historically accurate and save precious space and scale.

The game looks wonderful! : )

I'm not sure what you mean by "historical accuracy". It is a game and nothing more. By the same reasoning, the depth of a unit should only be one stand to fit the ground scale, but that wouldn't look very good either. You take some, you give up a little on something else. We use 3 ranks of infantry, which is rarely seen in most wargame armies, as this is "historically accurate" too.

The practical reason is that the core of the collections of two of our group consist of large 30mm Suren figures. If you have ever held a Suren in your hands then you know that they have rather large bases. The Suren bases will not fit on anything smaller than a 1-inch square metal stand. Thus all of the infantry are on 1-inch stands for consistency's sake. An added bonus is that these figures are singly based and it makes it easier to pick up the figures and remove them from the magnetized movement tray.

At this stage of the game, with several thousand individually mounted figures, I'm not going to rebase the entire collection, would you?

Thanks. I've been thinking about setting this battle up for a couple of years. I won't have a table as long as yours but I like the way you represented the important terrain features that effected the flow of the battle.

Doesn't get any better than this! Thanks for sharing.

Monseigneur B. Protz, it was no critic just curiosity. As we all struggle with space, and scales you could have save a bit by having them close, but then you have to fit the most gesticulating miniature that gives the minimum size.

And of course, no way you need to re base ! ha!

yes three ranks; glorious. I did not notice.

Depth is not a problem unless distances are so small that interpenetration are too often a problem, and with linear warfare, tend to be less of a problem than in Napoleonics.

I wish I could have come in to Chicago from Omaha to join you! Thanks for the invitation anyway.

Wonderful panoramic game, thanks for sharing :)

Dear Bill

Wonderful, masterful! Excellent. Bravo.

As another owner of massed Suren Armies I know of what you speak. I base the entire regiment on one stand 4.5 by 8 or 9" 29 privates, 2 NCO's 2 Musicians, 2 Officer, 2 Color 1 color. Looks good. Your colletion looks great too.

Congratulations.

I also don't care about the number of figures on a stand as I don't count casualties.

Once again, excellent work.

Just ordered a couple hundred bucks worth of Surens and Staddens from the Tradition Shop.

I'm Jim, not Bill. We played the game at Bill's house.

very inspiring looking table, I agree with Jcfrog however, even in a game, elbow touching figures look in my opinion much more 18th century like than the skirmishing order as most usually wargamers place their figures.

Also – it would be a dream to get miniatures made in winter uniform to make such famous winter battles as Leuthen or Rossbach