JimDuncanUK | 05 May 2016 3:13 p.m. PST |
A preview of some new MDF products from Warbases. A selection of Gribeauval limbers, caissons and baggage wagons, some horses and a cart. Certainly worth a look. link
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Ligniere | 05 May 2016 3:29 p.m. PST |
Those look very nice indeed! Interesting alternative to the more expensive metal versions |
JimDuncanUK | 05 May 2016 3:32 p.m. PST |
@Nigel You have hit the nail on the head! |
jeffreyw3 | 05 May 2016 4:20 p.m. PST |
Well, if it convinces more people to put limbers and caissons on the field with the guns--I'm all for it! |
Gonsalvo | 05 May 2016 10:46 p.m. PST |
Good review and some fine new products@! |
jeffreyw3 | 07 May 2016 8:49 a.m. PST |
Noticing that "Casualties inflicted by bayonet" threads run to the hundreds of posts, while something that actually makes tabletop gaming look and play more authentically, "Indexpensive Limbers and Caissons," is sitting at…five. Ah well… |
deadhead | 07 May 2016 9:58 a.m. PST |
That is a very good point. I guess posting a new product, which all agree is excellent quality and value, is not going to mobilise the masses. What is currently going viral, by TMP standards, is the grapeshot/canister counter battery fire issue…….. That looks like it could be really interesting, but dreadfully longwinded and repetitive. Prediction. Things like this, angular, box like…ideal for 3D printing and five years from now……… |
1968billsfan | 09 May 2016 10:49 a.m. PST |
..but for most countries, a section of 6 guns was directly supported by the gun limbers and a cassion per gun. The footprint of these was not that big, but these as figures on the wargame table (15 or 25mm) really take up a tremendous amount of space. I also really like to see them on the tabletop, but put them there for pretty and allow units to walk through them freely, because they really were not "there" as represented by their size on the tabletop. |
deadhead | 09 May 2016 11:35 a.m. PST |
Which is so profound. Wargamers (you are a sad bunch….wind-up here….without you, we would not have the figures to collect, I know)you always show artillery with a max of four figs serving the gun. There is then a random 50% chance that your spongeman will be to the right of the barrel, the loader to the left but………….…more often than that, evens, is the chance………. you get it wrong! You dice throwers totally ignore the footprint of your artillery "Grand Battery" also. The point made here is supply and resupply of incredibly dangerous munitions within yards of the front line. But, at quite a depth, and surprising hazard (funny, I thought that was spelt with an, S but Word will not allow) |
jeffreyw3 | 09 May 2016 4:59 p.m. PST |
Yep, limbers and caissons do take quite a bit of space, and did historically. I realize that ground scales are generally pretty silly in most Napoleonic miniatures rule sets, but if verisimilitude isn't an issue…I guess we can all just play Blucher and be done with it. Now this is more like it:
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JimDuncanUK | 10 May 2016 7:15 a.m. PST |
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jeffreyw3 | 12 May 2016 10:04 a.m. PST |
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JimDuncanUK | 13 May 2016 4:00 a.m. PST |
No problem Jeffrey. I'll be in Florida by tomorrow evening, Kissimmee. |