| janner | 31 Mar 2015 7:37 a.m. PST |
Having cracked the first half of a German Brigade based for a Black Powder variant towards the end of last year, it was time to get back into field grey. So onto the next regiment with 1st Battalion of the 41st Infantry (now with added sword knots!):
More photos, as well as detail on German sword knots, on the blog: jannersjaunt.blogspot.dk |
| Winston01 | 31 Mar 2015 6:57 p.m. PST |
Really nice paint job. Your information seems very detailed and complete. |
| janner | 01 Apr 2015 3:52 a.m. PST |
Thanks, Winston. My eyes and hands aren't up to painting regimental numbers of the shoulder straps though  |
Big Red  | 01 Apr 2015 9:51 a.m. PST |
Beautiful work janner! Are your 1914 Black Powder variant rules available? |
| janner | 01 Apr 2015 12:10 p.m. PST |
They're still scribblings on an A4 sheet, but I'll happy put them up somewhere once I'm happy they are reliable |
| Big Red | 02 Apr 2015 8:50 a.m. PST |
Thanks janner. Scribblings on an A4 sheet can sometimes lead to great things. |
| monk2002uk | 03 Apr 2015 12:07 a.m. PST |
Lovely work, janner! Black Powder harkens back to an earlier era. Did you consider Bolt Action at all? Robert |
| janner | 03 Apr 2015 5:07 a.m. PST |
Thanks, Robert. I thought of using BP for 1914 for formation level gaming because commanders were, in part, still drawing upon the strategies of an earlier era. As an aside, I'm not a fan of BA even for WW2 games, preferring the Battlegroup series for company level gaming. Still, they certainly done a great deal to popularise the period.  |
| monk2002uk | 03 Apr 2015 9:59 a.m. PST |
janner, I understand. Check out this translation of a detailed German after action report. It was written about the first action that German 88th Infantry Regiment fought in, August 20th 1914. Let me know what you think in comparison to BP – a ruleset that I don't know at all, other than the category of era. link Robert |
| janner | 03 Apr 2015 11:02 p.m. PST |
What a great read and interesting to see the MG company operating together rather than split into platoons attached to each battalion If you wanted to recreate this tactical level on the table, I think that BP would work very well using companies as your basic units, with battalion serving as a brigade, ie a normal game would consist of an infantry regiment with attachments. BP now do two colonial variants to cover the Zulu War and Sudan, which help draw the system closer to 1900, but a Boar War version would be very useful. I'm going to have to accept a degree of abstraction to run larger scale games. My basing would allow platoons to manoeuvre, but I think that will drag me into the weeds. However, the rules allow mixed formations, as well as putting the whole unit into skirmish lines, which I think will serve. The present MG company is probably too big, and may drop to a single base that acts like an artillery battery in the rules. Play testing proper can begin once the second regiment is complete, as well as their Russian opponents. At present, I have a four battalion Russian regiment close to completion with another regiment awaiting basing. I just wish someone would do non-Cossack Russian cavalry… |
| monk2002uk | 03 Apr 2015 11:29 p.m. PST |
There won't be an issue with dropping the MG company size. The 87th Infantry Regiment, which was operating north of IR 88, was involved in the action. As noted in IR 88's regimental history, 13/IR 87 detached an MG section that ended up fighting alongside IR 88 in Longlier. It was quite common to parcel out the MG sections from German MG companies. Robert |
| janner | 05 Apr 2015 8:51 a.m. PST |
Great stuff, Robert. I really just get around to reading your book |
| monk2002uk | 08 Apr 2015 5:01 a.m. PST |
If you do get to read the book then please let me know what you think. It is a book that is worth savouring slowly. There is a lot of detail crammed in. I am just working on the electronic versions at the moment – eBook, PDF, and Kindle. Robert |
adds an infantry platoon to his WWI Brits.
