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Sheepman
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by Sheepman » Thu Sep 27, 2012 8:15 pm
An evening at the club and more Frenchmen (on both sides) bite the dust. A venture into the Vendee 1794 resulting in another entertaining encounter to find out which of the two forces was the worst, a historical fact born out during the game!
Do have a look at the blog for more pics and a description of the game:
http://thenorthumbrianwargamer.blogspot ... olutionary
Hope you enjoy guys,
Dave
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by obriendavid » Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:05 pm
Great looking game and battle report Dave.
I've always fancied this period but could never get anyone at the SESWC club interested. I see that you're in Morpeth so I hope your figures are safe from all the flooding?
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Dave
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by janbruinen » Fri Sep 28, 2012 11:29 am
They look good.
I hope to have the time next year to start this period also.
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by Sheepman » Fri Sep 28, 2012 2:30 pm
Thanks lads, no probs with the flooding Dave I live way up a bank
It's a very interesting sub period Jan, would be great for smaller skirmish games as well.
Dave
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by Eugenio von Savoy » Sat Oct 13, 2012 10:58 am
Hi Dave,
Looks great.
We played a similar game last night in the group. Always fun to use the dross in a game and you never can tell just what will happen. Love it.
Please advise what figures you have used for each of the armies.
Many thanks
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Tim
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by janbruinen » Sun Oct 14, 2012 9:45 am
Dave, I know.
I am interested in the 1792-1795 period in the Nethelands, Belgium and Germany.
Have already a lot of figures lying around (well, in boxes) but the time is the problem. We are now preparing for Crisis/Antwerp (15mm Balck Powder Napoleonic in Spain) and our theme for next year will be Early Renaissance in the Netherlands or Italy. Maybe then some time to start the FR.
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Jan
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by Sheepman » Tue Oct 16, 2012 6:56 am
Sorry for the delay lads just back from hols.
Tim, the Royalists are made up from Reiver Castings 'Monmouth Rebels' range and Old Glory AWI militia, quite a mixture! While the Republicans are nearly all Old Glory Early Nap, technically the uniforms are incorrect as the tail skirt should have been longer but the collection was started long before the likes of Eureka got going and frankly I couldn't afford the quantity of figures I have in the collection if I had gone with Eureka.
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by obriendavid » Fri Oct 19, 2012 12:08 pm
Dave, did you produce the Royalist flags or are they available somewhere?
Finally decided to bite the bullet and go with this period but doing it for the skirmish rules from Clarence and not the big battle games that you are putting on as I will have to be painting both sides. First few Royalists already painted.
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by Sheepman » Fri Oct 19, 2012 4:54 pm
Dave, best of luck with the Vendee skirmish project, I'm sure it will prove to be great fun.
The flags are hand painted and all I have for sources are in hard copy at home, however have a look through the Revolutionary bit of the blog site here:
http://thenorthumbrianwargamer.blogspot ... olutionary Keep going through the Older Posts link at the bottom of each page and it will eventually bring you to various links to French Rev stuff, it might help.
Have a look at some of the paintings here:
http://www.histoire-image.org/site/lett ... ncaise.php
Quite inspirational.
Dave.
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by obriendavid » Fri Oct 19, 2012 9:29 pm
Thanks for the link Dave, as you say these are very inspirational.
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Dave