Tiny Tin Men - recent comments

Phil comments on "Napoleonic vignettes & stuff"

2012-11-10T15:56:13+01:00

Excellent vignettes. I especially like the soldier chasing the chickens.

BTW, we must remember for the next convention game to hand out some sort of quiz, encouraging visitors to look for these vignettes on table.

Robartes comments on "Engineers / pontooneers / bargemen"

2012-03-29T20:53:41+01:00

The figures are in the One True Scale, 28mm :)

Davidcaretti comments on "Engineers / pontooneers / bargemen"

2012-03-29T16:50:19+01:00

These are great figures! what is their size?

Graham K comments on "The defense of Bricqueville: a photo report"

2011-12-01T15:37:01+01:00

Ah! I obviously scrolled down to far. My comment should have applied to here. Graham

Graham K comments on "Some more 20mm WWII things"

2011-12-01T15:35:04+01:00

Looks like a fun game - I seem to think that I recognise a fair number of those used vehicles. Glad they are still going. Graham

Alan comments on "Engagement at Arnhofen"

2011-09-07T20:42:07+01:00

It was another enjoyable game. Our best moments were with Britt, whose die rolling was impeccable. She seemed to grasp the manouevre very well - clearly a clever child, well brought up.

Which is more than I can say for my meagre contribution to the game, which consisted of rolling a series of 10s on the command dice, thus preventing the Bavarian cavalry from influencing the game or helping Bart’s infantry batter the Austrians.

Very nice rule-set and a good scenario.

Graham comments on "Bavarian Generals"

2011-08-12T13:02:20+01:00

I use both makes - but never in the same unit, or maybe for a diorama base either mounted or dismounted one maker and the other from the other - if you see what I mean.

I still like my exclusively Foundry ECW units though - somehow they sum up the change in figure styles of thi time and just epitomise the priod. The newer figures, though nicer in some ways are just not quite right. Keeping those back for the 30 years war. Graham

Robartes comments on "The Lanchester Model for Combat explained with an application to unit activation mechanisms"

2011-07-23T23:10:58+01:00

… having written them up concisely …

Indeed :)

Fun aside, that’s a good analysis and pretty much spot on, I’d say. I’m firmly in the casualty infliction potential proportional to own number of units camp :)

kgpm.desmedt comments on "Ingermanlandski Regiment"

2011-07-11T09:15:30+01:00

Interesting detail is that there was also an Ingermanland regiment (Ingermanlands regemente) on Swedish side, recruited by the local Swedish governor, Wellignk, in 1700 as part of Sweden’s initial GNW efforts. The regiment was kept on the Swedish books, and was active in the defence of Swedish Finland, till 1710 when it was lost during the capture of Viborg by the Russians. Next to these there was also an Ingermanland Dragoon regiment, set up at the same time, and who roughly have the same history as the infantry. Part of the regiment escaped from Viborg, these were distributed to bolster other infantry and cavalry regiments.

karremans comments on "Napoleon rules by Wargames Foundry"

2011-06-04T05:37:11+01:00

I agree with your point on rules, they seem written by someone that clearly knows how they should work, but fails to explain that in a precise enough way to acount for a lot of common situations that will arise. Still, I think the rules look like a good framework in which you can decide with you playing buddies what to do in such events.

But I just don’t get your bashing for editing the pictures: the ones you mention are intended to show the layout of a unit in the army lists part of the book. All pictures of games in progress aren’t edited in any such way.

Phil comments on "Big Joe and friends"

2011-05-29T10:58:00+01:00

Very nice figures.

BTW, do you already have a good scenario for the Shootist game? One possibility could be to hand out secret roles as done in the game BANG!

Robartes comments on "And now for something completely different ..."

2011-05-18T15:53:32+01:00

Yup - Scibor Miniatures Dwarven maiden. 19mm feet to eyes :)

Phil comments on "And now for something completely different ..."

2011-05-18T14:39:07+01:00

Female dwarf?

Robartes comments on "The Battle of Saint-Clair radar station"

2011-05-09T21:13:38+01:00

Hi Iain,

we used Rapid Fire for this scenario, with a few houserules to convert it to hex based movement and measurements. Basically assume one hex equals 3” and the rest follows from that.

Bart

Iain Martin comments on "The Battle of Saint-Clair radar station"

2011-05-09T03:08:39+01:00

Great photos. What rules are you using?