Friday 14 August 2020

1813 - Schnitzelklopfen at Metzelheim - 28mm Napoleonics

 It was a necessity - Ladies and Gentlemen! After such a long pause and some bribing in the form of "Kartoffel-chips", I agreed to play even the British in this 28mm, Black Powder epos playing somewhere somehow in the later Naps ... I would have even played 6mm bronze age levies vs 28mm Polish winged hussars on the rules of By Fire & Sword at that time,  if you would have asked me!

Bart (Polish /French) and Campbell (Würtembergers and assorted Weiss-Wurst-Germans) set up against Peter (some to me unidentify-able British allies) and myself playing the Brits (and the Scots Greys). We would contest around a 4 BUA's / village (I baptised it Metzelheim) each worth of 10 victory points (vp), each regiment killed would bring 5vp, artillery 1vp - what else do you need to know?

The Frenchies won the 1st turn and promptly occupied the half of the village. Then me and Peters Brits sloggishly smurfed their way forward, the Scottish Horse even defied the order. 2nd turn more of the same and Bart started to pressurise Peter - and seemed to win the cavalry battle! My Brits occupied promptly my quarter of the village/objective and  ... the Greys still didn't moved ... too mush or too less Whisky, the night before, perhaps?

Then Campbell started to attack and that was when I really got good - my troops somehow excelerated! His cavalry attack forced a regiment into square formation, from then it went down hill. Next turn, I moved forward concentrated fire on his regiments, and the Greys and Dragoons (?) suddenly attacked, successfully and charged again and sweeped away what was in the way after that. The next turns followed the same pattern. 

At the end he had 1 last Infantry regiment in da house ... and I was enjoying bombarding/firing at him. Bart in between, slightly worried, send some attack columns over to the 90 degree turned frontline ... and did right that ...  but again it relaxed more the pressure on our side, then anything he might had hoped for or planned for... point wise we won by 1 vp!! Even though the French kept 3 quarters of Metzelheim! 

Schaschlik! 

Hau das Schnitzel platt!!! 

That will teach the Swabians to compare themselves to the Scots (ref to South German Tourist info, no joke!)

And the best: I did not loose a single unit, not a half drunken typhoid Horse Artillery powder monkey. Splendid! 

The ones!
The enemy lines up for slaughter - D.O.A!

Some Schaschlik - Hussars
Peters rest ...


The under-promising French-Poles - maybe their lances were too short, this time!
The Wurtembergers - beautiful, but doomed.

First fights over Metzelheim



Peter nearly messed it up ... but prudently fell back
The Greys are coming!

the Cavalry swept up



Morituri te salutant! - in vain they do not understand latin!
at the end of sweeping

Rearranging and reforming
the Front turns

The turkey shooting starts



The Polish-French-associates come to attack ...
but to no avail ...


Friday 7 August 2020

The Russian and the Austrian Seven Years War Armies show off

... the finishing of the Austrian army creeeeeps ahead slowly ... so I just took the opportunity to show off my 2  7YW armies on my 2 6x4 boards ... just for personal psychological self motivation ...













Saturday 1 August 2020

Showcase 8th: 6mm WW1 - Guns Of August

This is one of my more crazy projects. The miniatures went smaller yet from 10mm to 6mm, and the rules were actually from a boardgame (Avalon Hill 1980 Guns of August) - Heretical!! That actually describes best the reaction of most of my fellow wargame club mates. Nevertheless I always wanted some miniscale/vs grand scale map wargame going boardgame with the real "General Headquarter" feeling, and GOA was always close to my heart. The Covid 19 gap just gave  me time to really finish this, figures were mostly Baccus 6mm, and some Irregular miniatures, a few airplanes were 3D print, the map/mats, I re-designed after the game board and produced it with Tinywargames mats. Once the club will re-open the complete European WW1 is waiting for me, month by month ...

The production charts with personnel and supply points
An eternal calendar for the re-inforcements entries, and the weather calendar for west and east front


Italy and the mediterranean - all quiet on July 1914

The westfront and the alps

the westfront from the alps/swiss point of view

The westernfront from the north sea

just about getting into the 3rd of August ....

some French Cavalry at Lille

Major deployments near Verdun on both sides of the frontier



The southern East European theatre, the Balkan before the storm

The Northern East European theatre

The whole Turkish European army posing at Gallipoli for a photoshooting - still neutral


The Serbian Front from the Bosnian point of view

the Serbian theatre birds eye view

The complete Northern theatre just about round start of August

Few German defenses round Königsberg

and too few Austrians defending Lemberg

The complete Eastern front from Gotlands point of view


a pre-printed B/W monthly tracker map, also for marking the status quo for later pick ups

The complete Greek army

The complete Monte-Negrian Army

The complete manufactured "tokens" including fortress marker and a lot of barbed wire for "entrenchment" markers ...