SYW Honours of War using 10mm

[Leman]

I like to use the 3ib guns to represent battalion guns. As HoW has been designed to depict most infantry battalions with battalion guns (whether you show the battalion gun or not) I have a battalion gun on the fourth or fifth base of a battalion. This is something I would like to do for most of my battalions, so I will actually be ordering more battalion guns.

[kipt]

Do you think the 3 pdr would work for the FPW mountain gun?

[Leman]

It may look the right size but unfortunately it has a split trail and very chunky C18th wheels. I think the Zulu/NWF mountain gun is a better bet.

[Bill Braham]

Do you think the 3 pdr would work for the FPW mountain gun?

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There are mountain guns in Pendraken codes NW9 and ZC7, would they be the kind of thing you are after?

[kipt]

I just ordered both codes and will look at them along with my 6mm Napoleon (Adler gun).  We will see how they stack up.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Artillery jenga? That's a new one for the Pendraken Xmas party!

[Leman]

Some photos of the set up for the Barry Hilton scenario 1 for HOW. Scenarios are available on the Honours of War website. As the rules have been devised with the author's 28mm armies in mind, the same scenarios for 10mm figures can be done on half size tables (I use the 15mm QRS as my unit frontages are 100mm, i.e. 4x25mm frontage bases. Consequently this particular scenario is on a 3'x2' table, marked out using masking tape. This will be the first game to be played in my newly completed wargames room. As yet not much to show for the Prussians as most infantry units are one base short as I rapidly produce battalion gun bases. These are not essential in HOW, but in 10mm I think they look really good on the end of a unit. Three pictures show Austrian battalions, the third being the Croats holding the churchyard.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Very nice Leman, GOOD SET UP!

[Techno]

That's really impressive.
Super stuff, Bob !

Cheers - Phil

[Last Hussar]

#1 son is basing 4x2 men, 4 bases to the battalion. This should work for both BP and HoW

[Leman]

Should work LH. I was previously playing Black Powder with exactly the same armies. In HOW the key is inf/cav unit frontage, which should be roughly the same as inf in line movement and normal musketry range. In 28mm unit frontage/musketry is 200mm. In my 10mm units it is 100mm. This equates to the 15mm QRS for ranges/movement etc. It also reducesl the grid squares on the scenario maps to 6". Mind you, how spectacular would this battle be in 10mm, but using the 28mm frontage and 1' grid squares.

[fred.]

Great looking game - everyone is putting out some great looking army photos tonight!

[Last Hussar]

Meant to say 30mm bases - so 120mm lines

If he doesn't put the 3pdrs in the line, can they be used as light guns, or are they really a bn gun?

[paulr]

A great way to christen the new wargames room

[jambo1]

Lovely looking game.