The Board Turn'd Upside Down

Very British Civil War inspo

I only know of it because my dad lived in Arundel for a brief time; in the process of designing a Siege of Arundel Castle campaign to play with him, I had to learn about all the tiny engagements surrounding the siege.

Whoops, River Adur! Pardon my local English geographical knowledge from several thousand miles away

Two 28mm armies face off across a stream and a bridge. A ruined tower stands in the distance.

Red-coated pikeman guard a river crossing

Taught a friend Pikeman's Lament today. His Royalists walloped my Parliamentarians at a loosely recreated Battle of Bramber Bridge (1643). The River Arun is lost! #wargaming

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Asking the #spreadthelard folks: We're thinking of trying Chain of Command to use some already-owned 15mm minis.

If I want to play e.g. Burma scenarios, can I use the new rules edition? Or is Far East only doable under the older rules until more army lists are released? Never tried either!

A sword-armed 28mm musketeer with a lusty woman in tow

A man with two pistols faces off against a musketeer

A man with a musket watches over a street from a balcony

A miniature street fight with wounded markers galore

First run of Fistful of Lead: Horse and Musket was a success! A skirmish on the streets of Paris ended with Ethos of the King's Harquebusiers rescuing two spies from a band of mercenaries.

The mercenary leader was left badly wounded after finding himself on the wrong end of a pike. #wargaming

My aspirations are small -- I mean a single barricade or alley, maybe a half-dozen Communards against the same number of soldiers!

(Should stress that I am not the artist in the image above -- purely aspirational!)

I've determined Perry ACW rioters are the ticket! Now to create 1848/Paris Commune skirmishes with my lovely new Parisian terrain. How fitting that this idea struck me on Bastille Day 🇫🇷🚩🏴

Do I recognize a Warlord plastic Pike and Shotte officer??

Cover of "Fistful of Lead: Horse & Musket" rules

Now reading! A year ago I was looking to recreate big battles with as much complexity as I could muster. Now I look for such phrases as "one hour," "Hollywood style" and "as few as five miniatures" (having small kids may be a factor).
#wargaming

Can anyone recommend 28mm miniature lines that would be good for the 1848 European revolutions? I want an excuse to throw up some terrain barricades (and maybe paint a tiny Friedrich Engels). #wargaming #miniaturepainting

Collection of miniatures representing characters from Heironymus Bosch’s “Garden of Earthly Delights” and “The Temptation of St. Anthony”

Finally painted my entire collection of Bosch miniatures, all sculpted by @meridianminiatures.bsky.social - when he announced the second set I decided I needed to finish the first one ASAP. Please clap 👏

#manuscriptmonday #miniatures #art #minipainting

Ooh, did you print those activation cards or buy them somewhere?

Four down, one (the big, intimidating one) to go. Never got Warbases before; these look really cool!

Also, this MDF smells like a lovely bonfire at a cabin

17th-century pewter minis and some MDF "Paris 1625" buildings wrapped in plastic

New Bloody Minis and some buildings from @warbases.bsky.social from across the Atlantic today! I'd say it's like Christmas, but my Puritan forces would never accept the comparison

28mm Bloody Miniatures mini of a musketeer wearing a yellow and red tabard

Next up for swashbuckling games: the Spanish royal guardsman Don Alfonso Gazpacho de Migas y de las Tortillas

28mm wolves attacking a monster hunter while townsfolk flee among homes

French musketeer aims a pistol at a snarling wolf

Game of Devilry Afoot today! Our French adventurers and the local blacksmith were mauled, but left two werewolves badly wounded. Now our heroes may turn into wolves themselves in the next game...

NO KINGS - LONDON
30 January, 1649 - 2 p.m.
Banqueting House

And both are basically parody Catholicism! I want a grimdark religious hellscape where the humans eschew Latin and fancy architecture for a change

The whole Trench Crusade aesthetic never really appeals to me; the skulls and bloody crucifixes and gothic cathedral spires are a bit over-the-top.

My idea is a Lutheran faction that's just Midwestern guys with German last names, wearing regular clothes and equipped with tater tot casseroles.

Indeed! I really love the sculpts, will have to order more

Two New Model Army guys from Bloody Miniatures, one wielding a sword and helmet and the other a musket and an Agreement of the People

Two more Bloody Miniatures in red, one with a tiny Geneva Bible and sword and the other calling to the heavens

Finished my New Model Army radicals -- they'll serve as a faction for any swashbuckling skirmish game in need of True Levelling or a Fifth Monarchy
#wargaming #miniaturepainting

I like the mixed ECW uniforms, but very quickly got tired of painting massed units in that many colors!

Rock from my yard featuring the sigil of Buer, president of Hell (is he elected?) seen in early modern book The Lesser Key of Solomon

"Devilry Afoot" terrain: Pull an appropriately evil rock from the backyard and draw on demonic sigils from 17th-century grimoires

Royalist horse and dragoons reoccupy the defenses

Seeing little chance of victory, the survivors retreat back into the swamp. The Royalists reinforce the defenses and hold Rhys House easily. One more defeat like this and my commander will face the wrath of a parliamentary committee!

A battered cavalry unit charges the fieldworks

Horsemen crest the works and attack

With much of the attacking army melting away, a desperate charge by the cavalry fails to turn things around -- they're slaughtered on the fieldworks. The swashbuckling Haquebusiers haven't even unsheathed their blades!