Just a quick blog today, I am still working on the BYOB Bavarian battalion, I ordered flags from http://www.mts.net/~homenic1/vaubanner/vaubandex.html Vaubanner Graphics. Service and communication was great, I look forward to seeing the flags. I am going to order the flag pole tops from Triangle miniatures as they carry Front Rank here in the US. I will post pics as they progress, since the power outage I have not had much time to paint, however did manage a few 15mm old glory Cavenderian IR-3 Prinz Geoffrey which lead to an epiphany.
I have decided in order to expedite my gaming I am going to adopt the following and build up from there. Our enemy is Bizerrca and I only have Ottomans in 15mm therefore I am going to focus on painting up Cavenderians and Bizerrcans in 15mm. I have decided to play with Warfare in the Age of Reason rules as this is battalion level and will allow me to field smaller forces. However, I am a fan of the Napoleons battle basing, four figs, two ranks. I will start with 12 man battalions and 16 man Turkish mobs. This will allow me to actually play some games soon. Ultimately I would like each stand to represent a company, i.e. 5 stands of fusilier and one stand of grenadier per battalion. That way I could take two grenadier stand from two regiments and form a grenadier battalion of four stands, which would be close to the size of the 5 stand fusilier battalions. The ottomans will grow over time as well to approximately 8 - 9 stands per unit.
I hope to have some pictures up soon. I will try and get some of the Anatolian sekhans painted up this weekend and some based 15mm pics up. One last note, I may be converting the two royal Infantry regiments IR-1 and IR-3 to Austrian Hungarian style infantry as I have decided that Cavenderia will host more irregular looking troops.
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I fully agree with double-ranked troops. To my eye, if there is only one rank of foot, they are skirmishers. I cannot accept a single rank of foot as a battalion.
-- Jeff
Promising program!
I agree, close order infantry in a single rank simply doesn't look 'right'.
Looking forward to discover IR1 and IR3 in their 'exotic' appearance.
Cheers,
Jean-Louis
I used to play Age of Reason with 24 figure battalions etc. I merely doubled the size of everything as suggested in the rules. I looked much better and played just the same as with the 12 man units.
You are on the right track can't wait to see your units...Bill
And the NB-size stands can also be used for Bill Gray's "Age of Honour" SYW variant of Fire & Fury, if you want to try something different.
http://ageofeagles.com/documents/LAFAOH.pdf
Ed
double rank all the way! and triple if you can afford it!...
--Dave
Sounds like a great plan to get battles going on the tabletop sooner!
I'm with Jeff, I don't really cotton to using 12 figures in single rank as a battalion. The WITAR rules have a nice section of siege rules.
OOH! A siege! A siege!
Capital idea, I say!
If only the Bizerccans could consumate an arrangement with some foreign power to sell them armaments adequate to such an undertaking...
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