Thanks EG. You are clearly not as Evil as you think!!!!

BTW folks, is it Miniature Wargames or Wargames Illustrated? Both have been quoted in this thread....

Thanks Phil, I'll try and get some back issues.

CB

Sincere thanks for all of these replies. Very very helpful. My army (1st army????!!!! :lol: ) arrived last week and still has the drool marks on it from when I opened it. What a fantastic period. That's my christmas holiday painting sorted out! "My first port of call for uniforms and flags are the M...

With respect to the cuirass for Dutch horse, Robert Hall and Iain Stanford note that it was in use until 1687 after which it gradually fell into disuse(?) before being reintroduced in the early 1700s. My interpretation of this is to have a mix of cuirass and non-cuirass horse regiments with a few r...

Fantastic info here. You chaps are clearly so well genn'ed up Im envious!

Final stages of order being put on today, and then submitted. I can hardly wait to get some stuff on the table. This period is just crying out "28mm".

Welcome to the Boards.... Mackays - Red faced red Ramsays Red face white (off white) Balfours Red faced yellow (very likely white not yellow) Brandenburg.. off white/light grey faced blue Van Graben not known but highly likely to be grey/off white with facings of blue or red Nassau Ottweilar - don'...

Hello all, Ive just got interested in this period, bought the BLB2 rules, which are great, and am researching my 1690-ish army ready to order. the flags and uniform variety is really appealing for this period, but finding info is a lot harder than in some other periods. Looking at the LOA site there...