One of the hypothesizes I have with why prospective players struggle with historical games is the perception of “sameness” between the different units and troops you can select for your army or warband. Now, this isn’t an issue to those…
Short update on the 15mm project! The ability to use larger sized objects and figures such as small cannons was the chief driver of selecting 1.5″ base sizes on my skirmish project. With how nice my pack horses came together,…
I’ve reached a small milestone in my 15mm skirmish project: I’ve completed enough troops types for two warbands! Were the world back to normal, this means I could do playtesting with actual figures, but… that’s still not likely to be…
I had initial plans to paint up another unit this weekend, but a few terrain pieces from Novus Design Studio on eBay arrived, so terrain was the name for the day Sunday. Or, at least, it was mostly the name…
Let me just this out of the way at the beginning. My miniature painting skills are sub-par at the best of times, anyway, but I feel like I’m experiencing a distinct, new level of suck in getting used to 15mm.…
Like most of my gaming projects, my 15mm Renaissance skirmish project got put on hold when the United States went into COVID-19 isolation (such as us dumb Americans have, of course). By that point I had painted up my initial…
Most of the models for my dark fairy tale inspired witching trolls came from US sources, but I picked up some of the excellent teddy bear models from Northumbrian Tin Soldier and a lovely “forest troll” from North Star figures…
My friends know I’m a history geek. A big one. You can see it in my Renaissance Netherlands history project (with a Facebook page and very recently launched Instagram account), and my would-be 6mm big battle and 15mm multi-base skirmish…
I put my 6mm scale historical wargaming protect on the shelf at the beginning of the year after becoming daunted by the prospect of assembling two large armies (given the rabble rousing I was giving the project among my gaming…
During 2018 and 2019 I was slowly working away on a 6mm, fast-playing, big-battle pike and shot rule set. Playtesting was handled with flat paper proxies. In early 2020, I finally pulled the trigger on actual miniatures from a handful…