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Andrew Robertson and friends had this game recently. 1700 figures on the table. A culmination of about 15 years accumulating the armies. Narrow French victory. Well done chaps.
Remember these? I did an Austrian and a Prussian army using these. I remember them being neatly sculpted and they painted up well. Get them from here
Catalogue here. I knew this chap Rob Turner who had thousands of these and would host games accommodating about 6 players. All in gloss enamel but very well done.
When I started proper wargaming it was very much all Minifigs. Looking through the catalogue is quite nostalgic. Download a PDF here. I post the Marlburian page. They are quite charming.
Start of a project using these old school figures from the Minifigs Marlburian range. Mike says 'The start of my Minifigs 25mm units. The intention is to eventually refight the Siege of Dendermonde based on Ron Miles' Battle Magazine articles from 1977-78'
Great stuff! Minifigs here
Thought it would be interesting to see what was going on in 1673. This happened in November. Siege of Bonn.
Thanks to Steve again. On Netflix. Wiki
1670 is Polish mockumentary satirical comedy television series. It was released on Netflix on 13 December 2023.[1][2]
The series follows the pursuits of Jan Paweł Adamczewski, the Sarmatian head of a noble family in Adamczycha in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth during the 17th century.[3][4][5]
Thanks to Steve Stanley for finding this. Literally defaced by Royalists. Pic from the Battlefield Trust. Info here
Check out my Waterloo blog. I originally started it as a 1/32 scale affair but soon changed that. I am not a Waterloo expert. It's a nod to those years in the early 1970s when it was a really big period.
Carmontelle : Mr le comte de Durfort, colonel du régiment de Chartres-infanterie, entre 1758 et 1760, Musée Condé[1]b. https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Philippe_de_Durfort
Chartres infantry at Kronoskaf
This group started about the same time as Puleney's and were based in the city of Worcester.
Barry Lyndon (1975). Battle scene here. I must admit I didn't notice this film until the early 80s when it came out on video. I bought a copy despite it being quite expensive. Then the soundtrack on vinyl. I introduced this film to my friends the 36th foot and I Sent them up a copy when they had her togethers. The drumming has also been influential. The drumming was copied by ECWS drummers who used to call it Bee Gees (British Grenadiers).
Photo Chappers Photography. Pulteney's have been going since the mid 90s so I doff my cocked hat to them.
By Daniel Riesig. Figures cast from Prince August. I must admit I would like to have a go one day. The results as you see are very good.
Today's anniversary this battle.
Today's anniversary. Lund. Check out my Pinterest page on the Scanian War here.
There is a baroque battle fanfare to listen to while you look. A battle baroque from the collection Music from the Time of the Royal Swedish Flagship Kronan by Ensemble Mare Balticum. The piece is called Aria No. 25 from the Lund Manuscript. More details
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| Hat worn by Charles XI at Lund |
Today in 1718 Charles XII was killed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_XII_of_Sweden also see Who shot Charles XII? A mystery solved here
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| Uniform worn by Charles XII in Frederikshall on 30 November 1718. Shown in The Royal Armoury in Stockholm. |
While in the environs of Schaumburg-Lippe Bückeburg have a look at this early submarine. The Steinhuder Hecht.
Steinhuder Meer is a large lake with a fortress on it on an artificial island. Wilhelmstein. I visited it when I was a teenager. I did a German exchange (Bristol Hannover) and my hosts took me there. There is a model of the submarine there.
From the wiki
The Schaumburg-Lippe-Bückeburg Carabinier and Jäger Corps (abbreviated: Karabinierkorps) was formed in 1753 by Count Wilhelm von Schaumburg-Lippe (Bückeburg) as a light troop corps on horseback and foot. In the build-up phase, it consisted of 75 cavalry and 50 foot hunters.
Lippe-Bückeburg Carabinier in the Seven Years' War
In April 1757, a native of Poland, Herr von Monkewitz, took command of the Carbine Corps with the rank of cavalryman, which he held until the end of the seven-year-old War.
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| Truppen des Grafen Wilhelm zu Schaumburg-Lippe nach Jakob Chrysostomus Praetorius 1765 |
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