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Wider Wargaming => Genre/Period Discussion => Ancients to Renaissance (3000BC - 1680) => Topic started by: Elliesdad on 10 February 2024, 01:07:43 PM

Title: Hussite war wagons - what size?
Post by: Elliesdad on 10 February 2024, 01:07:43 PM
What size - i.e./ length and width - is the Hussite war wagon? Are the artillery wagons the same size? I need to establish what size "footprint" base the war wagons require. Thanks in advance 😉

I'm hoping that (just) the war wagon will fit on a 40mm base. I intend to have the horses based separately.

Cheers,

Geoff😎
Title: Re: Hussite war wagons - what size?
Post by: fred. on 10 February 2024, 01:21:50 PM
The wagon is about 30x15mm 

The canon wagon is the same size

With the horses they fit on to a 50x25mm base nicely

So yes the wagon itself will fit on a 40mm base 
Title: Re: Hussite war wagons - what size?
Post by: Elliesdad on 10 February 2024, 01:41:32 PM
Quote from: fred. on 10 February 2024, 01:21:50 PMThe wagon is about 30x15mm

The canon wagon is the same size

With the horses they fit on to a 50x25mm base nicely

So yes the wagon itself will fit on a 40mm base

Excellent news Sir. That's good.
Thanks for the swift response. I almost said "you've played a blinder" - but then thought that was perhaps an (unintended) reference to the famed Hussite commander Jan Zizka.

Thanks again 👏👏

Geoff
Title: Re: Hussite war wagons - what size?
Post by: FierceKitty on 10 February 2024, 02:32:05 PM
Žižka. The Ž is a voiced sh sound (think "television").
Title: Re: Hussite war wagons - what size?
Post by: fred. on 10 February 2024, 06:52:58 PM
Happy to help - happened to see your post when I was sat just near the drawer with my wagons in!
Title: Re: Hussite war wagons - what size?
Post by: Elliesdad on 11 February 2024, 01:03:59 PM
Quote from: FierceKitty on 10 February 2024, 02:32:05 PMŽižka. The Ž is a voiced sh sound (think "television").

I'm old enough to remember when, to the English, it was written as Ziska.

😉
Title: Re: Hussite war wagons - what size?
Post by: Elliesdad on 11 February 2024, 01:07:29 PM
Quote from: fred. on 10 February 2024, 06:52:58 PMHappy to help - happened to see your post when I was sat just near the drawer with my wagons in!
Thanks again 👍
If only I knew when you were sat near to your drawer with your hill dwarf berserkers in 😉

Geoff 😎
Title: Re: Hussite war wagons - what size?
Post by: FierceKitty on 11 February 2024, 03:39:35 PM
Quote from: Elliesdad on 11 February 2024, 01:03:59 PMI'm old enough to remember when, to the English, it was written as Ziska.

😉

Was that the generation which conscientiously informed English readers that a Landsknecht was a "Lance Knight"?
Title: Re: Hussite war wagons - what size?
Post by: fred. on 11 February 2024, 05:35:35 PM
Pretty sure I don't have any of those figures - so would be a low chance!
Title: Re: Hussite war wagons - what size?
Post by: Elliesdad on 11 February 2024, 07:45:07 PM
Quote from: fred. on 11 February 2024, 05:35:35 PMPretty sure I don't have any of those figures - so would be a low chance!

 ;D  ;D - no worries. I'm pretty sure I know what I need.
Title: Re: Hussite war wagons - what size?
Post by: Elliesdad on 11 February 2024, 07:55:58 PM
Quote from: FierceKitty on 11 February 2024, 03:39:35 PMWas that the generation which conscientiously informed English readers that a Landsknecht was a "Lance Knight"?

I'm not 100% sure what you mean. The English are pretty much infallible, so ...
Alternatively, we are also bl00dy lazy when it comes to learning foreign languages (although we have appropriated many of their words).

Cheers,

Geoff 😉