Imaginations

[grizzlymc]

no-one to say "I think you'll find that the Knyphausen Grenadiers used silver, not brass cuff buttons between April and June 1753".

If you took the trouble to read the original indents you would know that the Knyphausen Grenadiers used pewter cuff buttons in that period, even the officers as they were short a mark or two.

[Norman D. Landings]

I do it out of sheer contrariness.

I'd always turned my nose up at 'conventional' Imagi-nations.
Generic, wholly interchangeable Euro-tricorn-musket types.
Where's the imagination in that?
Oh, you painted their coats lavender? OMG it's like Picasso and Umberto Eco had a baby!

(See? I was properly snotty about it. What a dick.)

I was foolish enough to air this opinion in Loose-Assed company, and the immediate riposte was: Okay smartarse, how would you do it?

(Think fast, Landings, you gobby tool.)

My answer was to 'Go East'. I thought the Ottoman sphere of influence offered far more scope than the 'classical' European model.
You can shoehorn everything from Eastern Europe to North Africa in there without breaking internal consistency.

Having painted myself into a corner then talked myself out of it, I ended the evening committed to the idea of the Nottoman Empire. Turned out to be brilliant fun.

I'm currently expanding my 15mm DBN 'actual'-Ottomans to form a Nottoman force for our 7YW club-rules project.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

I always fancied myself as an Oriental potentate. Or potatohead. Whatever.

Millions of musket-toting minions, plus.....elephants and tigers (and bears, oh my!).

[Isn't Nottoman some sort of super-hero? Undoing tough notts, or something....?]

[goat major]

Is a Nottoman army Turkishish ?

[Norman D. Landings]

It currently consists of Balkanish regular infantry, Turkishish Janissary 'guard', Arabicish camel-gunners, Turkishish elephant-drawn heavy artillery, Cossackish irregular light infantry, & Arabicish light cavalry lancers.
The toys are there to add Arabicish irregular foot and 'imitation-European' cavalry.

[Etranger]

Don't forget the jingly-janglies! Got to have them.

[Norman D. Landings]

I should, you know.
And Redoubt do these:

http://www.redoubtenterprises.com/shop/ ... 2f31019c47

Can you even imagine?
Your opponent's light horse trots up - LAUNCHES WRIST-MOUNTED ROCKETS AT YOU - then about turns and scampers merrily away?!

You'd be LIVID! It would be utterly priceless. WOOSH! BANG! What the fudge was that?
Rocket cavalry, you mug, that's what.

[grizzlymc]

That'd be the shot. Fire the rockets, caracole out of the way and charge with mailed Sipahis (well, perhaps FedEx rather than mail, we are in a hurry). I defy infantry to remain in good order with rockets wooshing around them.

[Zenbadger]

Turki shish, salad, lots of chilli sauce please...

[grizzlymc]

And Hommous.