Just a quick question. Has anyone else done or thought about doing the 1st Carlist War. The reason I ask is that I fancy doing something a little bit different than Napoleonic’s. I thought that it would provide me with a couple of small forces that I could do some of Charles Grants tabletop teasers....

Just dropped into the Front Rank Pages and notice that they are going to do a new range
This will go from 1685 to 1700 and will be suitable for the above, the Monmouth Rebellion - 1685 and the Irish Wars - 1689 to 1691.

I feel a dent in the bank account coming on.

Hi If you intend to go for that much then note that Front Rank will give you 15% off an order of £300. If you add to that the discount for the battalion packs it works out at about 20%

That is how we have been working towards our armies round here.

j1mwallace wrote: surely there were quite a number of dutch troops at Blenheim. My oob says 14 battalions and 18 squadrons. Can any one enrich me on the details of these. In the OOB's I have looked at I have only 3 Battalions of Dutch, a couple of battalions of Swiss in dutch pay and a number of ot...

Hi Churchill All the bases I use are 60mm x 80mm. For Rank firing and Artillery it is 60mm frontage 80mm deep And for Platoon firing and Cavalry it is 80mm frontage and 60mm deep. Front rank cavalry are approx 22mm boot to boot. This gives me a gap of about 15mm on the outside edge (see photos) this...

Hi all I was at colours on saturday and had a look at all the new plastics coming out and thought 'I really fancy doing something a bit different' Now I have 15mm Naps, FOW, 2Omm FOW, 25mm WAB, 25mm Wars of the Roses, 25mm Marlburian and 25mm ACW. I have other periods and scales but these are my big...

Hi Churchill, does your cousin wargame as well as we always like to welcome new people at our Cheltenham club.

I think that you should have put these figures on the Front Rank site. They are better, more detailed. Nice to see how peoples painting styles change.

Do you do commissions?

Hi. I intend to use the standard WSS figures and remove the foliage in the hats. I noticed it done here.
http://www.bpfp.co.uk/Page.asp?Title=Fr ... =52&Page=4

Then mix in some French officers.

Oh it was just the cheltenham town fixture list in your photos I noticed. Still if your ever in the area.

Hi Churchill
Nice figures.
Do you support Cheltenham town FC then? Close to where I live. Did you used to live down this area sometime?

Had a week on holiday with the family and managed to get this unit painted in the process. I decided I wanted this Irish battalion to have a more veteran look to it than the others I have done so went for a random mix of the figures from the Front Rank range. It is Lee’s battalion that became Buckle...

Hi Captain. Yes all of the figures are from Front Rank. We are having our next game in October. Should have a few more allied Battalions by then and some French and Bavarians. Just had a weeks holiday in Wales and managed to do a Battalion of Irish in French service. Lees Battalion. I will put it in...

Hi Churchill Sorry for late reply. The standard WSS dragoons will be fine for the Erbprinz Dragoon http://www.frontrank.com/lev4_3_5_10_WSS_Cavalry.asp These are the ones I intend to use for mine. Now I have them I have to find time to paint them (have 3 battalions of Bavarians and some Cuirassiers ...

Hi most of the flags on the French and Hessians are from the Robert Hall CD's, the rest are from Warflag and the Danish ones from Fahnestock.

Hope that helps.

Well we played our second game at the weekend and this was how we used the order markers. After throwing for the percentage number of units to move we allocated our markers. Move, charge and form markers were allocated from our percentage as were rally markers (we decided that commanders had to deci...