I understand the Russians experimented with horse guns during the GNW, carriages were red and metal work black I think.

Cheers Truls, I am a bit obsessed by it at times, always try to have soemthing in draft for when folks stop looking.

Cheers Donnie, there is just somethign about the clash of cultures in Elizabethan Ireland that attracts me. Swashbuckling Errol Flyn on one side and axe weidling Gallwglass akin to Vikings on the other. Whats not to love?

Arent they just cheers Donnie.

I have finally completed the first two skirmish units of Irish Shotte for the Elizabethan Ireland project, details and photos on the blog for those interested. https://gapagnw.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-irish-shotte-complete.html https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/40710542963_aa93fe2054.jpg irish sho...

Can we sneak this into this time frame? Barry might allow it given his fascination with Ireland. We played a greta game of Black Powder for the Irish rebellion the othe rnight at chum Steve Shanns (who also painted all the figures.) write up and pictures on the blog. https://gapagnw.blogspot.com/ ht...

Very nice Truls, especiallythe grey!

Lush.

Hi Rabblerouser, wemade no amendments really, but will certainly need to if we are to use them again for this era. The Tribal irregluars get a very short range with only small numbers firing but by 1919 most had modern rifles. The trucks were stationery so effectively just for pretty, the armoured c...

I did have amoment recently, having painted a small Saxon Army for the Great Northern War, I wnated to use them for the whole War and do them cheaply so used the Warlord Plastics with metal command and had them all in Tricornes with the flags from Warfare. It was pointed out to me that I prefered th...

Exactly

We had a test game using Men Who Would be Kings on Thursday, we had WW1 Imperial troops ambushed by Afghan Regulars and Tribesmen. Report and Pictures here. https://gapagnw.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-men-who-would-be-kings-playtest-1919.html https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7877/40499598263_bceccd74fe.j...

Its all personal choice really, I find my OCD kicking in if its isnt at least somethign like correct. For instance i dont mind early WW2 british subbing for Late WW2 British but I would struggle using WW1 British as WW2. i do cut up figures to use, so for instance I couldnt find any WW1 British Cava...

Cheers Donnie, collection is getting somewhere near now.

Great game of El Cid last night, first in a two parter around the holy relic the Toe Nail of San Sebastian, write up and pictures on the blog. https://gapagnw.blogspot.com/…/the-toenail-of-san-sebastian… https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7812/32442733957_9dbbe1f663.jpg el cid one by Roger Castle , on F...