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Miniatures Adventure => Age of the Big Battalions => Topic started by: NickNascati on 15 February 2012, 12:25:49 AM

Title: Gaming the Vendee - Advice?
Post by: NickNascati on 15 February 2012, 12:25:49 AM: All,
This is something I have wanted to do for a long time. Inspired by "Banners of the King", and funded by a batch of recent sales, I am ready to dive in. I want to do a quasi-skirmish level game, maybe 60 figures per side. The best Vendeans seem to be the 15mm models by Alain Touller. What do you all think , 15mm or 28mm? If 28mm, please give me some figure suggestions.

Nick
Title: Re: Gaming the Vendee - Advice?
Post by: nervisfr on 15 February 2012, 11:16:14 AM: for 28mm, you can try the old Foundry range for the revolutionary 1789 range. Available sometime from Dave Thomas ebay shop ( http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/davet329/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/davet329/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562) ). Just ask him.

in 15mm, the touler are great.

Lancashire games has some references
http://shop.lancashiregames.co.uk/cubecart/index.php?ccUser=&catId=19&act=viewCat (http://shop.lancashiregames.co.uk/cubecart/index.php?ccUser=&catId=19&act=viewCat)
Title: Re: Gaming the Vendee - Advice?
Post by: Aaron on 15 February 2012, 12:16:27 PM: If you decide to go with 28mm I understand Old Glory have unearthed the molds for their old French Revolution figures sculpted by Dave Alsop.
Title: Re: Gaming the Vendee - Advice?
Post by: nervisfr on 15 February 2012, 12:55:45 PM: Quote from: Aaron on 15 February 2012, 12:16:27 PM
If you decide to go with 28mm I understand Old Glory have unearthed the molds for their old French Revolution figures sculpted by Dave Alsop.

but they are not 28mm as we know them actually. Like the most of their range of this period of production...
Title: Re: Gaming the Vendee - Advice?
Post by: NickNascati on 15 February 2012, 12:58:58 PM: Thanks for the comments guys. I decided to go 15mm, and ordered Vendeans from Alain Touller and Republicans from AB.
Title: Re: Gaming the Vendee - Advice?
Post by: nervisfr on 15 February 2012, 01:10:53 PM: you can ask to sgtPerry too, he works on this subject for a long time on this forum.....:

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=20168.0 (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=20168.0)

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=20197.0 (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=20197.0)
Title: Re: Gaming the Vendee - Advice?
Post by: oxiana on 15 February 2012, 04:49:35 PM: Quote from: nervisfr on 15 February 2012, 11:16:14 AM
for 28mm, you can try the old Foundry range for the revolutionary 1789 range. Available sometime from Dave Thomas ebay shop ( http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/davet329/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/davet329/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562) ). Just ask him.

There are some great minis in this range, but they are much closer to true 25mm than regular 28mm. Put them up against some 'heroic' 28mm figures and they look like French revolutionary hobbits.

Liberté! Egalité! Petit-dejeuner!

::)
Title: Re: Gaming the Vendee - Advice?
Post by: Patrice on 17 February 2012, 12:13:40 AM: Please let us know your progress in this project... ::)
Title: Re: Gaming the Vendee - Advice?
Post by: NickNascati on 06 March 2012, 02:15:02 PM: Figures are all in hand. Remarkable service from Alain Touller, less than 10 days from France to the US from the time I placed the order. I've started the first batch of Vendeans. Undecided now on rules. My initial plan was a skirmish style game with singly mounted figures. Now I am thinking of possibly using Grenadier Production "Liberator" rules for the SA Wars of Liberation, which allow for some characterization of generals and units.