Against my wargame buddy Eltjo I played a short test battle Lasalle – 2nd edition. I will thoroughly review it later this year. My first impression is good: clear rules, relatively simple play, but still enough complexity, a good rock-paper-scissors interaction and a complete game system, including army builder and suggestions for scenarios. Here’s the […]
Lees meer Lasalle 2: A Battle ReportOften newbies or veterans looking for fresh insights ask in forums how others base their 2mm and 6mm miniatures: methods and marking, how to identify elite battalion 3 and militia battalion 4 from corps II ? I paint 2mm Napoleonic, 6mm Napoleonic and 6mm WW2. Earlier I described my method scattered in sub paragraphs in […]
Lees meer Tutorial: my logical (big)basing system for 2mm and 6mm miniaturesDespite reading numerous books and wargame guides I struggled to understand clearly how Napoleon and the French and Coalition armies moved during the 1814 defense the Paris campaign. My Kindle Houssaye facsimile edition has no maps and Wikipedia doesn’t help if you’re not familiar with the map of Northern France. And to complicate matters further, […]
Lees meer Napoleon’s Six Days in 1814 (9): A Grand Map of the CampaignNot satisfied with the many rule reviews that (although nice) are just fanblogs, I sometimes think and write about a standardized method of rules testing and reviewing. What I call the Amsterdam Acid Test for Wargames. Same battle, same army, different rules, methodological comparison. In real life I’m a lawyer. I compare laws and cases. […]
Lees meer The Amsterdam Acid Test for Wargames, Part VI: A Test-Drive Scenario For Each And Every Napoleonic RulesetThis is the 8th blog in a series of wargame blogs about the 1814 Defense de Paris campaign, a campaign better and smaller than the 100 Days. I included an Austrian order of battle for a 200 or 300 point (Blücher) pick-up game. The 1814 Austrian Army The Army of Bohemia or the Grand Army, […]
Lees meer Napoleon’s Six Days in 1814 (8): A Simple Austrian Order of BattleWith my friend Marty McFly I tested the 2×2 Napoleonics rules. We often play Blücher, but this DBA-ish ruleset was promoted by my favorite ‘Megalomaniac Wargamer & Amateur Historian’ Steven Thomas aka Steven’s Balagan so I decided to give it a try. Fastplay game, finished when 5 units are destroyed, no markers, no special units, […]
Lees meer Tryout: 2×2 Napoleonics. Big Battle On A Third Of A Dinner TableHere’s my big middle finger to all small scale haters, the 2mm haters in particular, who when you post pics ALWAYS react like “WTF is 2-6-10-mm Napoleonics? Give me a board game instead. I can’t play what my eyes can’t see.” I painted a corona army this month. A portable 2mm set. The club is […]
Lees meer Small, smaller, smallest (II): My 2mm Napoleonic Blücher Showcase GameFor portable Napoleonic big (Blücher) battles I bought 2mm Irregular miniatures and researched how to paint & base them. Unhappy with a standard functional approach I amalgamated different ideas and techniques and finally wrote my own tutorial, for more aestethic bases. Painting 2mm is NOT difficult or microscopic. But you should bigbase this scale and […]
Lees meer Tutorial: Painting & Basing 2mm Napoleonics For Portable (Blücher) WargamingEarlier this year I speedpainted HäT Bavarian Napoleonic infantry for our club to use as club army. Club mate Eltjo bought a box HäT French Light Infantry as personal project. As always, this was added to his Mount Everest, aka his pile of future projects, never to be seen. Unpainted plastic soldiers never die. They […]
Lees meer HäT 28mm French Légère – Painting Never Was EasierI must be mad. I’ve been declared mad by wargame friends many times, every time when I bought 15mm and not their beloved 28mm in particular. They advised me to find professional help when I moved to 6mm. Or a microscope. I didn’t. Today however I doubted my own sanity, for a second. I bought […]
Lees meer Small, smaller, smallest: Irregular 2mm Napoleonic (I)
