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New cloth for 6mm Napoleonics
I've been using (or at least planning on using) my tried and trusted, and rather old, Games Workshop static grass cloth for the base for my Blücher games. Thing is though the bright green uniform...
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Kings of War Vanguard at Hammerhead
We had a successful day playing Vanguard participation games at Hammerhead today. Quite a bit of interest in both the game and the boards.We'll be at Chilcon in Sheffield on 23rd March running Vanguard...
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Blücher- 2nd game - First time out for my French
I just finished playing my second game of Blücher, the first for Ed and the first for my French force.We played the Across the Danube scenario again, with French and British rather than French and...
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Blücher - 3rd game - Still loving it!
So the second game of Blücher in two days and my 3rd game in total. This time against Gerald and using the pick-up game scenario and 200 points.I was French and on the attack again, Gerald's British...
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A couple more Blücher Games
So another two Blücher games in the last couple of days.Yesterday's was against my 12-year-old son and he soon caught on to the rules. His strategy needs a little bit of work but that will come with...
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Blücher - First attempt at Scharnhorst
Another game of Blücher this afternoon. This time a 200 point game of Scharnhorst. We were playing British (Ed) vs French (me) and chose the Peninsular as the theatre of battle.Ed won the Intelligence...
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Blücher - Another game of Scharnhost
After the last game of Scharnhorst taking a little over 4 hours, I thought it best to split the game I had planned with Gerald up into two stages.Last Wednesday at COGS we did the prep. Built the...
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Blücher - Scharnhorst AAR
I wasn't going to write this one up as it seems all I've been posting recently is Blücher battle reports. However they're always great little stories and I seem to have something new added in each...
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28mm Napoleonic Russians
As well as the 6mm Napoleonics I've also been working on 28mm Napoleonics. These are for use with Songs of Drums and Shakos.I played a game using my French against Ed's British riflemen a few weeks ago...
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Blücher - Scharnhorst...
Another day another game of Blücher. This time a 300 point Scharnhorst against Ed.We'd played the Scharnhorst part of the battle last week at lunchtime. The situation had ended with me declaring battle...
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Tiny Russians
When I initially got into 6mm Napoleonics some 20+ years ago I bought some Heroics and Ros Russians in addition to my British. I'm not sure why I didn't get French... I was a bit confused about the...
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Russian Cavalry
I'm working towards a usable 200 points Russian Blücher force. I've just finished the 4 cavalry bases needed.There are two bases of cuirassiers and 2 bases of dragoons. Heroics and Ros only have...
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200 Points of Russians Completed
I've completed my 200 points of Russians just in time for the Blücher game against Gerald at COGS tomorrow night.3 Corps in total with Kutusov and Kutaisov.
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Russians First Blood - Blücher AAR
Unfortunately Gerald had to drop out of the planned Blücher game at the last minute, but Andy stood up to take his place. He took the French army and I used my Russians.We played the pick-up game...
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6mm Napoleonic Buildings
Having painted up the first part of my Russian Napoloenic army I really needed to get some buildings ready that were not Spanish. After all fighting with Russians on the Peninsular would be really...
View ArticleBlücher Frequently Forgotten or Misunderstood Rules
After quite a few plays of Blücher I've made quite a few mistakes with the rules. When I have identified one of these I've written it down. I have now got quite a list and thought I'd share that...
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Maloyaroslavets - Blücher- First Attempt
Last night we had our first attempt at fighting a historical battle using Blücher.We chose the battle of Maloyaroslavets, 24th October 1812. As Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow, Dokhturov blocks...
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6mm Napoleonic Armies on Parade
I've been quiet as regards photos of my new minis recently. I've been too busy painting!Anyway I decided that it was time to rectify that and also time to get out all my 6mm Napoleonics and see what...
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Various experiments in 6mm... Terrain and Tokens
As my all my 6mm Napoleonic armies have progressed well up towards my target of 400 points I've started to look towards developing them for a display game.The first stage was to investigate into a...
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Custom board for The Battle of Vyazma 1812 - Part 1
I've been wanting to try my hand at a custom board for a battle since starting with 6mm scale Napoleonics. In the last post I posted photos of the start of my solution to this, pasting tables with the...
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