HAHGS Sunday Game - July-29-2012

After my well-deserved vacation, my friends Peter and Greg met as usual at our local gaming store the Time Machine for an ancients game between Peter's Late Roman army and Greg's Macedonians.

 Peter C. appropriately placed under the FIGHT! poster.

 Peter's Late Roman cavalry

 Peter's Late Roman Goth mercenaries

 Greg H.'s Macedonian pike horde

 Greg obviously not being impressed much by the Late Roman army.

 Bring it on!

 Greg's impressive pike battle line

 Peter's opposing battle line

 Let the game begin! Peter's light cavalry and medium cavalry passed the test and is allowed 1 full move

 The Macedonians are not afraid to face the Late Romans

 Greg's feared horseshoe attack pincer move, with which he tries to crush the Roman army today on this battle field

 Elefantos crash into the Roman cavalry...ouch

 The Goth battle line is smashing into the Macedonian pike units

 The very ground is shaking by the mere power of the two clashing units!! I felt the tremor throughout my entire body! It was fearsome, I tell you.

 The Macedonian left wing has lightened a bit

 Heavy fighting continues to the right wing and mid section

This game was to get a bit more fluid with the Black Powder rules, and we all noticed that we need to play it , not only more often, but more so important in less long time intervals to not forget so much of the rules each time, lol. It was a great game and we had a lot of fun. It was about time to get back into gaming again for me, although I was a mere spectator and photographer.
Thomas

Assembly Line of the Russian Plastic Miniatures

I am now well into the assembly line of putting all the plastic Russian musketeer, and Grenadier miniatures together. Initially back in December, I had ordered 10 boxes of Russian 1809 vintage Line Infantry from Warlord Miniatures, as well as 2 boxes of Pavlovsk Grenadiers.
The regular Line Infantry boxes will make musketeers as well as regular Grenadiers. The special Pavlovsk Grenadier boxes will make the same AND the special Pavlovsk battalions.
I chose to my Russian units to be of 24-man sized units with 2 command stands per battalion. That way I can break the large battalions into 2 smaller ones for larger games and still have a command stand per battalion.
Since each Warlord miniature box comes only with one set of command figures, which are metal figures and not plastic, I had to purchase additional command boxes. Those are not available from Warlord, but can be purchased from Victrix Miniatures.
From all the boxes I have for the Russian army I have put together 2 battalions of Pavlovsk Grenadiers. Keep in mind each battalion will be 24-man units, no matter whether these are grenadiers or musketeers.
4 battalions of regular Grenadiers. I added 2 battalions of grenadiers, and therefore will have to get 4 more boxes of line infantry to balance the higher number of grenadiers. I also have 4 battalions of line infantry put together and boxed up.
I still have 6 boxes of line infantry needing assembly, which I plan to have completed by the end of next weekend. Once assembled, I will send all miniatures to Fernando Enterprises to get painted up to the collector quality painting level. I already have contacted them about this project and they are ready for me and waiting for the arrival of the Russian plastic miniatures from me.
This week I will receive the metal Victrix command figures, and order the 4 additional line infantry boxes from Warlord. The entire infantry units will consist then of 6 grenadier battalions, 2 of which will be Pavlovsk grenadiers, and 18 line infantry battalions, where 6 of which will be used as Jaeger battalions.
Once all of these miniatures are sent to the painting supplier, I will go ahead and work on the Russian cavalry, artillery, and Generals.
The small cardboard boxes you see in some of the pictures are meant to box up the plastics to protect them during the shipment to Sri Lanka.

Warlord Plastic Russian 1809 Infantry