15XX is narrative skirmish miniatures game I am writing set in Renaissance era Europe, c.1477-1651
Work’s been continuing on my Renaissance / Pike and Shot skirmish rules! There’s been the rules (and a name), but here are some quick updates on the miniatures side. Strongpoints While I don’t play Age of Sigmar or Warmahordes, I’ve…
Work’s been continuing on the skirmish project in the midst of Covid-enforced social distancing. In addition to terrain and some more work painting and basing figures, I’ve circled back to the rules in the last few weeks. I’ll be having…
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…
Work on the project has been focused on the terrain. I’ve never built any terrain or a gaming board. So, it’s not fancy, but I’m happy with it so far. Trees are all pre-mades or premade armitures with foliage clumps.…
I have recently pivoted my historical wargaming focus from big battles in 6mm to skirmish-scale games in 15mm after I received much interest from my network of gaming friends about the latter… and continued crickets about the former! I hesitate…