The Loose Association of Wargamers

Here's an AAR for our Christmas game, which was a half-scale 'bath-tubbed' version of the Battle of Minden (hence 'Wanneminden').

https://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/2025/01/26 ... tmas-game/

And if you missed it, here's my Review of 2024:

https://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/2024/12/31 ... w-of-2024/

Excellent SYW eye candy, thank you for sharing.
Pure inspiration.
Droooooooooooooooooooolllllll

Willz.

A splendid sight!

Superb, matey! More of this in 2025 please!

Thanks fellas! Yes, there will be loads more. Got to do the second brigade of Saxons, more Brunswickers and more British infantry and that will then open up more scenario options.

Essentially perfect.

OK, the cognoscenti want to know:
what's the wooden arrow for?
the game cloth? Commercial or have you created it/
buildings? I recognise some resin ones & I think there's some laser-cut ones but some are scratch-built?

donald

That was quite a battle, Mark. I noticed a lot of units getting blooded for the first time- but doing well. I take it that Mr Sackville will not be getting any decorations for his part in the battle?

Quick technical question about the Grenadiers de France and the Grenadiers Royaux: did their officers (and especially the standard bearers) wear the bearskin cap as well, or did they sport tricornes, as did grenadier officers in many European armies at that time?

BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2025 12:09 pm Quick technical question about the Grenadiers de France and the Grenadiers Royaux: did their officers (and especially the standard bearers) wear the bearskin cap as well, or did they sport tricornes, as did grenadier officers in many European armies at that time?

There are portraits of officers of the Grenadiers de France wearing the bearskin, though they might be like British grenadier & fusilier officers, who had a mitre for parade, but generally wore a hat in the field.

The Grenadiers-Royaux just wore hats for all ranks though. Their only 'grenadierish' distinctions were moustaches and a curved sabre.

ochoin wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2025 5:31 am Essentially perfect.

OK, the cognoscenti want to know:
what's the wooden arrow for?
the game cloth? Commercial or have you created it/
buildings? I recognise some resin ones & I think there's some laser-cut ones but some are scratch-built?

donald

Thanks Donald.

The wooden arrows are mentioned in the article; they indicate when a unit is in column. I gave up on small troop-bases years ago and instead base each battalion in line on a single base. It makes manoeuvring (and packing up) FAR quicker and they spend 99% of their time in line, so I see little point in faffing about with small bases for the rare occasion they might form column. It also makes it far, far easier to identify one battalion from the next, when they're all lined up without intervals.

For cavalry regiments, I found that single bases are a bit too big and heavy and the end figures tend to get damaged, so for the most part I use 6 or 8-figure ('half-regiment') regiment bases and they can therefore form column. For the British, Hanoverians, Hessians, etc, 6 figures is actually a whole regiment and for the French, 4 figures is typical.

The game cloth is a commercially-bought one. The pattern is sold by quite a few companies, but that one came from Tiny Terrain.

The buildings are a mix of Total Battle Miniatures (TBM), The Drum and ancient scratch-built ones. The fortress is the old Ian Weekley model now produced by TSS.