The Loose Association of Wargamers

FreddBloggs wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 9:39 am Whispers.... no great loss.... whispers.....

Other than not wishing anyone but Piers Morgan to die.

FTFY

Shahbahraz wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 11:13 am How compatible are these with the Flags of War figures? They look much 'chunkier'?

Not a bad compatibility I think, I'm not going to use them in the same units, but I think they'd happily mix in a formation:

L = FR, R = FoW (in a very slightly stooped pose)

Front rank always looked like well fed garrison troops to me, rather than the poor sods who had to march and stuff.

I can see they would be usable. But in the meantime, I will stick with the Flags ones, and I am going to NOT do what I did with AWI & Napoleonics, which was to buy four times more figures than I could ever use in a SP game. So a few groups a side is quite adequate. (Ha!)

As a plan it works, I have 3 groups of Ebor wss Austrians painted and based, and will need to buy more as that is all I have.

Just finished off Merlin, Guinevere and Sitric Curse-spitter. Next up are some Saxon Warriors. 4 Groups of 6 required.

Shahbahraz wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 12:12 pm I can see they would be usable. But in the meantime, I will stick with the Flags ones, and I am going to NOT do what I did with AWI & Napoleonics, which was to buy four times more figures than I could ever use in a SP game. So a few groups a side is quite adequate. (Ha!)

Of course there are fewer troop types in the '45, compared to AWI and Napoleonics, so that probably helps.

Unfortunately, once you start researching, you find more and more different types on the Jacobite side. Royal Ecossais, Bagots Hussars, Fitzjames' Horse, etc. I am going to keep it simple to start with though.

I did the ‘45 using the High Bridge scenario a while back using Front Rank Jacobites and Foundry AWI/Pirates as newly recruited and therefore un-uniformed English recruits. Then I added a couple of units of Front Rank dragoons just because I could. And their pretty civilians because, well why not?

They lay in a box for a few years, then FoW launched their Jacobite KS and I thought ‘I don’t technically need more Jacobites but I would like more uniformed English and I find the Front Rank, while nice, a bit staid in pose for the Sharp Practice level of game and I’d like to encourage FoW to move onto the forces of repression so I’ll buy some more Jacobites’.

Then the English KS appeared and I ordered it and they are lovely figures but I didn’t think through the order properly so I’ll have to buy some more to fill out the units plus I’d also forgotten that Highlanders are in 12’s not 8’s so I need to buy more of them.

And this is how a project grows kids. I’m going to need a bigger box.

And of course, you will accidentally over buy Government forces, so then need more jacobites until you end up with more figures than troops that actually took part.