LittleWars1913
A Wargamer's Ramblings about Toy soldiers and playing games with everything from 15mm to 54mm
Thursday, July 17, 2025
More progress on Dendermonde
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Mortimer's Cross with Flower of Chivalry
Monday, July 14, 2025
Defence of the Ypres-Comine Canals 1940
The British were eventually over-run, with the Seaforth highlanders falling back before routing, the Fusiliers also routed leaving a weak 2nd Northumberland to try and defend the canal. Some good german artillery made short work of them and the game was over - pretty much an historical result.
The British artillery was quite poor (my die rolling as usual) and I didn't manage to make as much use of my MG teams as I hoped.
Great game and the other two players who hadn't used Rapid Fire reloaded were impressed by the ease of the rules.
Sunday, July 6, 2025
Some swapping and some painting...
Saturday, June 28, 2025
First SYW games
Played two games with my new Minifigs 25mm SYW collection last week.
The first game was at the club on Monday night with one complete newbie and 3 of us who hadn't played Honours of War that much. There was a fair amount of rules flcking but we didn't get anything wrong..
I took the Prussians alongside Ian and Norman and Justin took the Austrians.
The game went badly from the start with an independent Austrian Hussar unit making a double move to hit my Prussians in column who failed to change formation. I rolled badly in the melee and the unit routed... How embarrassing...
I recovered but an hour or so later I managed to roll three 1s in a row
in a series of cavalry melees, lost almost all my cavalry and we decided
to call it a day and concede to the Austrians.
The second game was smaller, in my games room and against my regular opponent Anthony.
This time I took the Austrians and Anthony took the Prussians.
It was a close fought game and we both came to needing to break one unit to break the opposing army. I managed some lucky shots with 2 artillery batteries on one of his cavalry units and victory went to the Austrians again...
The Guildford club have made some small modifications to Honours of War to use D6 throughout and reduce the effectiveness of artillery and some shooting.
I think they work very well as a set of SYW rules.
Sunday, June 22, 2025
Tissues and glue....
I have started the long process of texturing and painting the Dendermonde walls. The techinique is to coat the structure with a thinned coat of PVA glue and then to apply a single ply of tissue paper to it.
Then you paint another layer of PVA over the top. This produces a textured surface that can be sprayed grey and then dry brushed to highlight and bring out the texture.
I use cheap "Saxon" 2-ply tissues from Aldi which are large and easily separate.
The end result when dry is this:
City walls are done and most of the Ravelins. Next up are 2 Demilunes and then the 3 Bastions. I need to cut some window and door frames for the city gate before I can texture that and also need to tile the roof.
The effect once painted is shown on the sample ravelin here:
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Seven Years War Armies ready
I have finished basing the Prussians and the Austrians and now have enough forces for a game.
The Prussian Army
Their Austrian opposition.
They meet in their first battle on Monday.