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Miniatures Adventure => Other Adventures => Topic started by: von Lucky on June 14, 2014, 01:13:36 PM
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Well Battlefront is on a roll. After months of speculation they have finally released their latest product, "Hussars in Halftracks":
(http://i59.tinypic.com/154fs3p.jpg)
It's set in a sort of weird Napoleonic Wars, where Napoleon won at Waterloo and the wars don't end in 1815.
John-Paul Brisigotti of Battlefront has stated that while many may think WWII and Napoleonics are the most overcrowded market for wargaming rules out there, he sincerely believes this new addition will be mind-blowing to those who have played Flames of War for years and those who are new to the period. He also plans to unite all Napoleonic gamers with one universal ruleset.
The release also talks about it allowing for massive blackpowder tanks running around, skirmishing brightly-coloured infantry, and hussars in halftracks gesticulating wildly and looking terrific doing it; hence the title of the first sourcebook covering the War of the Eighth Coalition (May-October 1816).
"Hussars in Halftracks" adds extra character to the period and those nations which are not quite so technically developed don't suffer an unfair advantage with the inclusion of the allies rule which Flames of War currently has.
I am excited, as unlike the Six-Day War and Great War booklets, Battlefront has decided to release this 218 page book without testing the waters. Why? Because this new period is awesome!!!
I'm just cleaning up my first pair of halftracks; some M3s with French crew. After that I plan to post some AARs, examples of play, some sense of the mechanics, that sort of thing for you all.
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Colour me slightly confused and mostly interested. Alternative history always interests me and that guy waving a sabre out of a half-track feels like this is going the 40k stupidness route by way of Napoleon which I can only smile at.
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lol
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wow ,I love the uniforms and swords etc of the era,love sharpe the series ,so I'm interested.
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I think my Satire-meter just went off the scale!
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Sorry, don't like it.
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Been playing with photoshop have we? ;)
Your only about 10 weeks to late lol
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Pants , was interested as well. :-[
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Yes, it's a mock cover unfortunately, inspired by this thread:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=67861.0
After reading the comments in it I remembered I had some unused M3 half-tracks and old Napoleonics somewhere. I was never going to use either (the Napoleonics are old school sculpts, hand-me-downs from a fellow wargamer, and unfortunately no where near the quality of my ABs), but they would be good for this little side project.
After a wine or two, the mock cover seemed like a good idea (I haven't used Photoshop in years - I can see a few mistakes I made this morning). I don't know if I'll ever get a game with them (no one here is crazy enough), but I'm going to use this thread to chart my conversions.
Is any one else interested in doing some conversions too? I could see a Bolt Action version working. ;)
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I got some front rank post 1812 dragoons,trying to mate them to slannesh steeds for space cavalry . ;D
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trying to mate them to slannesh steeds
There really are no depths to which the devotees of Slaanesh will not sink, are there?
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Is this what splits the WNW* crowd early? Like dinosaurs in the Weird World War II crowd, I'm sure we can accommodate these guys. Hmm, I have a 15mm brontosaurus somewhere too...
* Weird Napoleonic Wars. Yes, we need a better acronym.
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I love it!!! (Of course I do, I named it!) :)
I think we have some kind of a collaboration here... Looks like the art is on it's way! I was thinking of 10mm for this, but 15 or 28mm would be just dandy too.
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There really are no depths to which the devotees of Slaanesh will not sink, are there?
lol ,yeah it could worded that better couldn't i.
I like the whole swords/flintlock in space thing and was just trying to do cavalry with native mounts .
But I don't see why weird war should just be for 1 or 2.
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I have now summarised the whole thing on my blog
http://soldatetain.wordpress.com/2014/06/15/hussars-in-halftracks/
You know, oddly, I think there's some life to this...:)
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Hah - I do have to thank you.
Spent the evening going through my unpainted miniatures and seeing what I could appropriate for this.
So far (all 15mm):
x2 M3 half-tracks
x4 M10s
x1 Brontosaurs
x1 Fokker C.X
x10 average hussar and other napoleonics sculpts.
I reserved the M10s for a possible 'Girls und Panzer' project, but this is so much cooler.
I'm thinking of just doing a small unit at a time, who knows if I'll ever game with them (I guess I could add them to a normal FoW game for flavour).
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Luckily, FOW already has rules for men on horses with pointy sticks..........
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I think we could take it a step further and have our own rules for it :)
I posted it up on TMP, and have had some amazing hits on the blog from it, much like the reaction here - about half seem to be interested, a quarter think it's just silly, and a quarter think it's awful. If we can make half the people happy, that's a hit! lol
Also, came across this http://members.shaw.ca/the8recce/8_recce_history.htm
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8th_Reconnaissance_Regiment_(14th_Canadian_Hussars)
These fellow actually were Hussars in Halftracks - the assault sections were in tracks.
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Inspired by Hussars in Halftracks I've been in contact with Osprey to see if they want to add to the Song of series with Songs of Shako's and Sherman's.
(http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k145/the-fighting-chef/TankshermanM4_zpsa2cf8ee6.jpg) (http://s87.photobucket.com/user/the-fighting-chef/media/TankshermanM4_zpsa2cf8ee6.jpg.html)
Unfortunately they didn't think it had legs as the market will surely be corned by Hussars in Halftracks unperturbed I decided to combine my love of all things WWII and the Wild West and launch my very own Kickstarter for Panzer Bonanza, new game combining ranching, cattle rustling, Chinese cooks and 54 ton armoured death machines.
(http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k145/the-fighting-chef/TigeriUK_zpsa2c63ca1.jpg) (http://s87.photobucket.com/user/the-fighting-chef/media/TigeriUK_zpsa2c63ca1.jpg.html)
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3 fingers - I'm looking forward to your conversions.
joroas - That's part of the appeal already.
grant - I'm leaning towards having to adapt a WWII set, to cover small 28mm skirmish (Bolt Action, Chain of Command, etc) and large skirmish actions (Flames of War). For really large actions I guess a Napoleonic set will need to be adapted.
Actually writing a set of rules could be a later consideration. Right now I want to just convert and paint some miniatures., that's the main appeal. Also explaining how this technology is suddenly available I haven't decided on yet. I think I will just go with sudden advances in manufacturing/sciences; the real outcomes of the Age of Enlightenment.
Steve63 - Now you're getting it. Tell me you wouldn't want to field that Sherman on the table? FYI "Songs of" is written by Ganesha Games, not Osprey. But got to see you're playing with ideas. That's what this place is all about.
Finally, 'Panzer Bonanza' is also in the same vein of awesomeness, I suggest you pursue that. Look forward to updates on the Kickstarter (even if you were joking). you'll be surprised what the kids would be willing to back these days ;)
Anyway, I've found some spare AB Spanish grenadiers... they're added to the pile. Thanks for the distraction again grant. Or should we be thanking cubs?
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I did ask about napoleonic science fiction in the vsf section
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=66071.msg823759#new
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I'm reminded of a daft mini-wargame entitled "Napoleon at Chattanooga", detailing the Great General's campaigns in the Shenandoah Valley and the Outer Planets of the Solar System.
It's worth a look just for laughs.
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Nice, it's available for free:
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/16936/napoleon-at-chattanooga
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You should try to get Eddie Izzard to make such a game.....
jazz chicken with codpiece, cat with gatling gun, Darth Vader with a tray, Hussars in halftracks....
and now to something completely different
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I'm resurrecting this.
I have a hankering for actually trying some Hussars by GHQ in some 10mm halftracks! :D
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Funny enough ,I was in the loft,looking at my miniatures earlier lol
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Hah. I thought you were out of the game. Over Christmas I converted a few; let's get this rollin'.
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Hah. I thought you were out of the game. Over Christmas I converted a few; let's get this rollin'.
Absolutely!
I'm going to hunt down some 10mm halftracks to go with some GHQ 10mm I have. The scale should epic!