i'll speak to the others tonight .
cheers

I like the way that firing is handled in fire and fury and also in Longstreet. There is to be a civil war variant on Black powder later this year. In my experience you only need light and heavy rifles. Smooth bores and howitzers although the latter were only used on specific occasions. For example a...

looking good as usual. Which rules ?

Watching this on Bbc4. Very interesting. Tonight Peter the great!

happy birthday Colin. I visited the Battlefield at Franklin this year . Here's a wee extract from the guidebook I didn't know you were into civil war...."The Confederate assault of six infantry divisions containing eighteen brigades with 100 regiments numbering almost 20,000 men, sometimes called th...

Have you scratch built an extension to your house to keep all your gear in ?

Excellent as ever !! looks like loads of Minifigs ?

Very nice. My pet project this year is Giovanni Medici's black bands. Only 15 companies!

hi Lee. What colour for many do you undercoat ? Are you giving the paints a good mix. I've used Vallejo and army painter for many years over a black undercoat usually and have never had any problems. I often add a small ball bearing to act as an agitator with Vallejo. I'd second the foundry paints ....

Frontage is the most important thing. Each BLB cavalry unit of 6 figures represents 2 squadrons usually so to get a 50/50 split as a representation have 1 cavalry squadron per infantry battalion.

I saw the one man theatre company do war and peace at the Edinburgh Fringe a few years ago. His battle scenes were quite small.
The following year he did the charge of the light brigade.

I am pretty crap at putting pictures up . Give it a try

Don't let the comments put you off . The programme is a broad brush approach, not made for us geeks. I thought that it was pretty good, a fairly easy watch and quite informative. A producer can never cover everything given that its just two parts spanning 75 plus years.

No one makes French Hussars for the WSS.

Thought that this was well made. I do believe that the lady presenter was in the same camp as Barry , the not a supporter of Marlborough camp.
Quite the fence sitter was old Johnny ! .