Hello, Justin. I am really enjoying your recent posts, as I intend (hopefully in the not too distant future) to indulge in a similar imagi-nation campaign. (My last such escapade was a decade ago with 15mm Napoleonics!) Your battle report on Ottomans vs Swedes on your blog (I don't do Google ID, Fa...
Barry (and any other knowledgeable gents), How would one handle significantly different buildings with a defended village? For example, let us say there is a medium sized village, mainly built of wood, with a single, large, stone church in the center of the village. Could I have a square-ish BUA of ...
I am looking for good sources on terrain in the Spanish Netherlands and United Provinces, ones with images, and am soliciting suggestions from the informed folks here. Essentially, I would like to see some nice line drawings, or paintings if that is all there is, of what city and rural buildings loo...
The influence of Ottomans (and Swedes) on player-nations look as though they will be troublesome to those of us playing Western European armies. This test game showed me that my own nation (with Britain as our influence) will need to invest in more artillery. The cloth is more of a "needs must" situ...
We ran into this the other day, for the first time. Swedish/Ottoman foot that has not fired previously receives a bonus +4 dice for melee (first bound). We assumed that the original battalion involved, which has received the +4, loses the first fire bonus subsequent to the melee. However, what about...
BLB is simultaneous movement but the idea of initiative is taken into consideration through variable movement allowance each turn which is modified by the ability of the commanders. It is very rarely that both sides move everything every turn. A good commander with reasonable die throws will invari...
Gents, It has been a while, for various reasons, since I've been able to frequent this board. However, opportunities have arisen, as of late, which let me once again lurk and occasionally post. I am in the final stages of preparation for beginning my long awaited 1708 imagi-nation campaign and after...
El Cid, my thanks! So, can someone else, using El Cid's recommended force for the Bavarians, help me with balancing the Austrians, who have 8 more battalions? I don't want to just have two more full brigades of Raw troops, so I am thinking of 6 Raw, 12 Drilled, and 2 Elite (no guard) representing th...
Yes, but in my timeline there's no issue with the Austrian Succession in 1706! :) :) And, really, this is a scenario that allows me to "bring together" one character/general from each of the future player nations in the campaign, in a way significant for the futures of their individual nations. Kind...
I am running the monthly club game this Saturday and the club members requested that I run BLB again (this time 2nd edition). I am creating a scenario set in my alternate timeline, the one I am using for my campaign. Basically, it is 1706 and the WSS never happened. However, the Elector of Bavaria h...
Ray, Since they fought dismounted at both major actions of that campaign, why not have them as one five figure stand of dismounted dragoons? I'd not have them as a mounted unit at all, if it were I. A simple solution that does not require extra figures that did not exist in the OOB and keeps them to...
Ray, Follow the link to the original article for more pictures from better angles and description of basing. Thanks for your comment on the basing. These pics shown here were meant to show off the basing with the wargame table as contrast. I am going to try to borrow my sister's very nice digital ca...
I posted an article here: http://royalistroundhead.blogspot.com/ detailing my current works in progress. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nL1WIbbFtWU/T_U0uDuMlAI/AAAAAAAAAvQ/PZGlooxiGjY/s320/100_0789.JPG http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VVNe9dm7wjw/T_U0xuUnrsI/AAAAAAAAAvY/bvZVSTbfZaQ/s320/100_0790.JPG http://1.bp...
