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OK no T34s. How about my BA-6? That almost looks 18th century.

Buff Orpington wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 11:53 pm OK no T34s. How about my BA-6? That almost looks 18th century.

Give it a Tricorne hat and no-one will notice.

Essex Boy wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 7:23 pm But you can have Russian 18thC cavalry in your army.

Actually, the first effort by King George to obtain foreign auxiliaries for the AWI was asking Catherine the Great if he could borrow 20,000 Cossacks.

Essex Boy wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 7:23 pm Personally, I see no problem with having British fighting British, for example, but I'll leave that conundrum to Dave I think.

Well, that is pretty much what the AWI was, of course......

BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2020 8:20 am

Actually, the first effort by King George to obtain foreign auxiliaries for the AWI was asking Catherine the Great if he could borrow 20,000 Cossacks.

Just a small rewrite of history then.

How are people basing Light Bobs? I'm going for 4 on a 60 by 40 base.

Buff Orpington wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2020 8:29 am

BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2020 8:20 am

Actually, the first effort by King George to obtain foreign auxiliaries for the AWI was asking Catherine the Great if he could borrow 20,000 Cossacks.

Just a small rewrite of history then.

You can pretend his request reached her when it wasn't the wrong time of the month.....

And she'd had a couple of entertaining grenadiers the night before.

Buff Orpington wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2020 8:53 am How are people basing Light Bobs? I'm going for 4 on a 60 by 40 base.

I suspect that would be fine. Mine are 3s saboted on 60x60s for skirmish order.
Iain can probably confirm the approach to light infantry and/or skirmishers in terms of the time-setting/period.

Buff Orpington wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2020 8:53 am How are people basing Light Bobs? I'm going for 4 on a 60 by 40 base.

I went for 3 on the same sized base

It's a good job that Helen Mirren turned George down. Can you imagine what Mel Gibson would have done with that storyline in The Patriot?