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Miniatures Adventure => Age of the Big Battalions => Topic started by: bill5549 on April 01, 2015, 09:47:12 PM

Title: 28mm BORODINO WITH 170+ BATTALIONS
Post by: bill5549 on April 01, 2015, 09:47:12 PM

I was away at the weekend at Lundin Links in Fife for a 28mm Napoleonic event.  It was a large game based on Borodino.  Over the 2 days 10 gamers attended from the AB1 group.  We used Black Powder with my house rules.  I made the Russian infantry Stoic and Poor shots.   Stoic means they can reroll their first break test while Poor shots is a -1 to their shooting dice.  Given the scale of the game to speed up play we did not use any skirmishers or mixed formations.

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7616/16795649917_be1f0a5edb_c.jpg)
The Grand Redoubt opens fire

The forces
French: Infantry  99 battalions, Cavalry 35 regiments and 46 guns
Russian: Infantry 73 battalions, Cavalry 31 regiments and 57 guns
That’s a grand total of over 5,900 figures

(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8708/16816851049_aca662347d_c.jpg)
Fighting between the fleches and Utitsa

(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8715/16380637074_54ebd15f55_c.jpg)
French cavalry sweep north on Borodino

More on my blog at
http://blenheimtoberlin.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/28mm-black-powder-borodino-with-170.html

Title: Re: 28mm BORODINO WITH 170+ BATTALIONS
Post by: Arthur on April 01, 2015, 10:26:16 PM

A very impressive display  8)

Title: Re: 28mm BORODINO WITH 170+ BATTALIONS
Post by: janner on April 02, 2015, 08:22:22 AM

Black Powder at its best!

Title: Re: 28mm BORODINO WITH 170+ BATTALIONS
Post by: Duke Donald on April 02, 2015, 11:07:54 AM

5,900 figures ! Blimey, that's a lot of minis!

Title: Re: 28mm BORODINO WITH 170+ BATTALIONS
Post by: Harry Faversham on April 02, 2015, 04:30:28 PM

Could I inquire from where you got the basemat, it looks really good?

Title: Re: 28mm BORODINO WITH 170+ BATTALIONS
Post by: IronDuke596 on April 02, 2015, 05:53:22 PM

Wow! Most impressive indeed. Well done.

I am guessing the figure ration was about 20:1 or perhaps 30:1?

Title: Re: 28mm BORODINO WITH 170+ BATTALIONS
Post by: PAULSPENCE on April 02, 2015, 07:43:26 PM

Bonsoir,

Awesome looking game!

Good piccies too.

Might tempt me to try BP again.

Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,

Paul

Title: Re: 28mm BORODINO WITH 170+ BATTALIONS
Post by: bill5549 on April 02, 2015, 10:49:07 PM

Regarding the figure scale infantry units varied in size from 24 to 32 figures and cavalry from 12 to 18 figures.

We counted everything as standard BP units

Title: Re: 28mm BORODINO WITH 170+ BATTALIONS
Post by: rxpjks on April 02, 2015, 11:25:20 PM

What size table did you use?

Title: Re: 28mm BORODINO WITH 170+ BATTALIONS
Post by: bill5549 on April 03, 2015, 02:43:09 PM

The table was 24' long and wider at the 2 ends giving it a sort of S shape.

Title: Re: 28mm BORODINO WITH 170+ BATTALIONS
Post by: Jack on April 10, 2015, 04:58:48 PM

Quote from: Harry Faversham on April 02, 2015, 04:30:28 PM

Could I inquire from where you got the basemat, it looks really good?

B&Q. They sell as dust sheets. I bought a pack of 3 large size ones and cut them in half, got enough to cover six 6x4. For about £25. Glued the cut edge to avoid fraying. Laid them out in the garden and lightly sprayed using Halfords car spray.