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Miniatures Adventure => Age of the Big Battalions => Topic started by: Harry Faversham on 31 August 2021, 01:47:10 PM

Title: The Battle of Agua Verde...
Post by: Harry Faversham on 31 August 2021, 01:47:10 PM
First action in the new, New Emporium at the Seaside.
His Nibs in person has turned up to wrest Spain back from the ulcerous Sepoy General! Strong in Cavalry Boneypart and Marshal Ney deploy along the Agua Verde River...

(https://forum.treefrogtreasures.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=279324&d=1630412807)

(https://forum.treefrogtreasures.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=279325&d=1630412836)

(https://forum.treefrogtreasures.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=279326&d=1630412869)

His Grace the Duke of Wellington does likewise on the opposite bank...

(https://forum.treefrogtreasures.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=279327&d=1630413078)

(https://forum.treefrogtreasures.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=279328&d=1630413104)

(https://forum.treefrogtreasures.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=279329&d=1630413130)

 :)
Title: Re: The Battle of Agua Verde...
Post by: rafm3ic on 31 August 2021, 03:53:05 PM
Lovely looking tabletop!
Title: Re: The Battle of Agua Verde...
Post by: CapnJim on 31 August 2021, 11:15:33 PM
Lovely!  Looks likes His Grace has his work cut out for him...

Love the new gaming digs, BTW...
Title: Re: The Battle of Agua Verde...
Post by: Harry Faversham on 01 September 2021, 03:49:14 AM
Thanks chaps, much appreciated.

 :)
Title: Re: The Battle of Agua Verde...
Post by: Roo on 01 September 2021, 07:41:15 AM
Lovely looking set up and game and good to see the old Airfix
 marching to the sound of the guns
Title: Re: The Battle of Agua Verde...
Post by: Bloggard on 01 September 2021, 02:09:10 PM
oh my, fine looking game.
Title: Re: The Battle of Agua Verde...
Post by: johnl5555 on 02 September 2021, 01:45:42 PM
Great looking game in my favorite scale! What rules did you use?

Thanks.

John
Title: Re: The Battle of Agua Verde...
Post by: Harry Faversham on 03 September 2021, 01:54:59 PM
Quote from: johnl5555 on 02 September 2021, 01:45:42 PM
Great looking game in my favorite scale! What rules did you use?

Thanks.

John

KISS Principle as applied to wargaming... Neil Thomas' OHW rules!

 :o
Title: Re: The Battle of Agua Verde...
Post by: Harry Faversham on 03 September 2021, 01:57:52 PM
In true Napoleonic style, mass Cavalry thunder forward in overwhelming numbers...

(https://forum.treefrogtreasures.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=279521&d=1630672071)

(https://forum.treefrogtreasures.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=279522&d=1630672127)
Undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, British Dragoons and Hussars rise to the challenge! Massed Infantry 'prepare to receive Cavalry'.

(https://forum.treefrogtreasures.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=279523&d=1630672528)

On the distant right flank, Britain's Prussian Allies push for the river crossing.

(https://forum.treefrogtreasures.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=279524&d=1630672691)

The Old Guard deploys to take them on...

(https://forum.treefrogtreasures.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=279525&d=1630672791)

 ::)
Title: Re: The Battle of Agua Verde...
Post by: Harry Faversham on 03 September 2021, 11:06:05 PM
A massive Cavalry battle ensues on the British right flank...

(https://forum.treefrogtreasures.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=279544&d=1630706034)

On the left, both sides Infantry trade volleys across the river...

(https://forum.treefrogtreasures.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=279545&d=1630706112)

 :o
Title: Re: The Battle of Agua Verde...
Post by: Norm on 04 September 2021, 05:00:43 AM
I am intrigued by the basing system (looks good), what is the base size and are you using two bases per unit, so that line and assault column can be represented? Ihave just starrted Austrians doing something similar, but on 80mm bases.
Title: Re: The Battle of Agua Verde...
Post by: FifteensAway on 04 September 2021, 07:01:30 AM
Agua Verde?  Man, that water is blue!   lol   :o
Title: Re: The Battle of Agua Verde...
Post by: ilkley Old School on 04 September 2021, 08:48:37 AM
Quote from: Harry Faversham on 03 September 2021, 01:54:59 PM
KISS Principle as applied to wargaming... Neil Thomas' OHW rules!

 :o

Have you made any tweaks to the OHW rules or are you playing them as written ?

Title: Re: The Battle of Agua Verde...
Post by: Harry Faversham on 04 September 2021, 09:12:50 AM
Quote from: ilkley Old School on 04 September 2021, 08:48:37 AM
Have you made any tweaks to the OHW rules or are you playing them as written ?

Playing the Napoleonic rules with only one tweak. A General can join a unit and rally off a D6 worth of hits, but must stay with that unit till the Dice of Death do for it. Every time the unit takes a hit we roll a D6, comes up a 6 said General's meets his Waterloo!

:'(
Title: Re: The Battle of Agua Verde...
Post by: Harry Faversham on 05 September 2021, 09:58:05 AM
Quote from: Norm on 04 September 2021, 05:00:43 AM
I am intrigued by the basing system (looks good), what is the base size and are you using two bases per unit, so that line and assault column can be represented? Ihave just starrted Austrians doing something similar, but on 80mm bases.

Cheers Norm. The bases are 5"x2", each base representing a single unit. Neil Thomas's cheap and cheerful OHW rules don't do formations, everybody's in battle line.
Granted, it does look a bit daft for Napoleonicing, but works surprisingly well in creating traffic jams and masking batteries as vast mobs of Infantry and Cavalry start swanning around!

::)