Field Notes

I was super excited when my pre-order arrived from The Wargaming Company. I picked up one of each of their new starters for Et Sans Resultat (one French, one Russian). These kits contain a boatload of 10mm miniatures, with approximately 240 infantry models, 4-6 cannon, 12-16 cavalry and various officers, wagons and sappers. For my basing conventions, this comes out to about 3 full regiments of 3 battalions of infantry and 6-8 squadrons of cavalry, which is a huge value for $99 a box. You also get unit cards, a reference sheet, bases and tokens for ESR, a ton of flags, and a random leader card, which was really fun (I got Dokhturov and Lefebvre). I think these are ideal for anyone looking to quickly bulk out an infantry-heavy corps. The miniatures are gorgeous (see the last post for more detailed pictures of some pre-production models) and extremely durable, and they're so detailed that they really paint up well/easily.  Below are some photos. French box Hand for scale to show how ...

Below you'll find a ton of pictures of some of the soon-to-be-released 10mm Napoleonic miniatures from The Wargaming Company , publisher of the Et Sans Resultat ruleset. David with TWC was kind enough to send me these pre-production figures to paint up and review. They're available for pre-order now and shipping after Historicon (end of July).  TLDR: these are really detailed miniatures for 10mm and take paint beautifully. Out of the package, the detail on these figures is quite evident. They come on strips, from which they are easily clipped and cleaned. You could also paint them on the strip if so-inclined.   Once they were based and primed, I used contrast paint to lay down the core uniform colors (mainly the blues and blacks), followed by a series of block painting and highlights with standard paints.  These miniatures are perfect for this process, as the details from the plastic material are extremely deep/pronounced. It was super easy to pick out straps, epaule...

On 7/18 I was able to get the project I've been working on for a couple of months onto the table - a 6mm recreation of the battle of Fleurus in 1622 using the In Deo Veritas ruleset! All miniatures are Baccus. In Deo Veritas In Deo Veritas, by Phil Garton and published by Helion, is a pretty new fast-play set of rules for 17th Century wargames. It uses D6s, with a dice pool hit & save system. Command is by wing, with wings activating in a random order each turn. I'll do a more thorough review in a later post. Historical Context Fleurus is a common introductory battle for Thirty Years War games, as it features two relatively small, matched forces in a straight-up fight to break through. The Protestant army is led by a mercenary odd-couple of Ernst von Mansfeld and Christian of Brunswick. Their army had recently left the service of the King of Bohemia and Elector Palatinate, Frederick V, as Frederick had grown tired of their bickering during an extended retreat. App...