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| An alarmed picquet sights an advancing Oberhilse patrol. |
"Seizing the Initiative" from Scenarios for All Ages (the Red Book.)
Thursday, January 8, 2015
Somewhere in a Faraway village
"Seizing the Initiative" from Scenarios for All Ages (the Red Book.)
Born and raised in the suburbs of Montreal, 5 years in the Black Watch of Canada Cadets, 5 years at the Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean followed by 4 in the navy. 25 years with CPC in IT simultaneous with 23 years running a boarding kennel. Inherited my love of toy soldiers from my mother's father. Married with a pack of Italian Greyhounds and 3 cats. Prematurely retired and enjoying leisure to game, maintaining our 160 yr old farmhouse and just living.
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I LOVE these battles with this particular groups of figures! Your armies here remind me of the photographs in Wells' Little Wars. . . but are even better. Eager to see what develops here.
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Stokes
its the line drawing I like best.
DeleteI look forward to reading more... and totally agree with Stokes!
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ReplyDeleteThis is a terrific looking table and I hope that it can serve as a platform for several games at least. Is it possible for you to use rolling hills, that is terrain which does not provide much of an obatacle but which would shield an approaching unit for at least part of its advance. I'm thinking here of the type of terrain at Gettysburg or even the way the ground lies here on Long Island. During the battle of Gettysburg parts of Pickett's division disappeared from sight from the defenders on Cemetery Ridge as they left the woodline advanced forward and then followed the terrain down into a series of folds in the ground. It might make it more interesting for the troops approaching the enemy defenses not to get shot down on the approach.
Stay warm!
Jerry
Thanks Jerry, yes I do some of that and with the longer modern ranges it become more important than in the smoothbore musket day so I will need more. After having spent time trying to make rolling, multi-contour hills over the last year or so I have realized that I messed up a couple of them when experimenting and that I need to cut more narrow hills for just the sort of low ridge you describe.. Since my workshop is an unheated woodshed, it'll probably have to wait until spring.
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