Silver Bayonet - The Future?

[aircav]

There is a teaser on the North Star Facebook page but with the release not until September 2025 it is probably a bit early for any detailed info.

https://www.facebook.com/northstarmilitaryfigures/

A little bit of background detail on here

https://www.ospreypublishing.com/uk/osprey-blog/2025/announcing-joseph-a-mccullough-wargames-2025/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1OJB1GR2tCJPiMfwoiIirpZgXlYF0WzYHcaZNw6ug9CzOXqTmO12Go3UA_aem_DjvcMJGFIiiwVI_aItYP9Q

[commissarmoody]

Looking forward to SB Briton. And I would love to see an expansion in North America to the South, or New Orleans. You got Pirates(river and ocean verities), Voodoo, American Fronter Milita, regulars, Marines. Along with the Red stick Rebellon, combined with British raids on the coasts.

[Matakakea]

Not to mention some fantastic food 

[Cat]

Upon reflection, I've shifted my druthers in favour of a Nordic expansion.  1808–09, lots of forces involved in the wars there in addition to the Swedes/Finns and Danes/Norwegians — Russians, French, Spanish (regulars), Dutch, British (naval).  Plus any of the other European powers could get special investigation teams there easily enough when the game's afoot.
 
So all the core units fit in naturally to the setting.  Plenty of great lore to bring in, and it's already detailed in the Vaesen RPG for easy reference.

[Aethelflaeda was framed]

Upon reflection, I've shifted my druthers in favour of a Nordic expansion.  1808–09, lots of forces involved in the wars there in addition to the Swedes/Finns and Danes/Norwegians — Russians, French, Spanish (regulars), Dutch, British (naval).  Plus any of the other European powers could get special investigation teams there easily enough when the game's afoot.
 
So all the core units fit in naturally to the setting.  Plenty of great lore to bring in, and it's already detailed in the Vaesen RPG for easy reference.

Anywhere within reach of the Royal Navy or a company of Rifles is fine with me!

[Cat]

Anywhere within reach of the Royal Navy or a company of Rifles is fine with me!

I may well consider doing up some Scandinavian buildings sometime after I get my Alpine set done.  Currently working on some nice tall spiky rocky bits for the Alps.
 
Oddly enough, a British (or other) Naval Landing Party would be the best Alpini type unit in this game — Sailors are the only troops that come with the Expert Climbing ability.  Not even Carpathian Woodsmen can climb mountains that good!
 
I'll probably pencil in a change of the Woodsmen's attribute from Fire Starter to Expert Climber.

[anevilgiraffe]

by a coinkydink, I was thinking if a naval supplement would be viable... Trafalgar or something... boarding actions, raiding parties, sea based horrors... might not justify a full release, but...

[Aethelflaeda was framed]

Yeah, it might get me the excuse to buy a 28mm frigate, sloop or cutter.  I never could quite justify the expense of having to buy two for historical boarding party actions , but repelling Dagon and Deep Ones or worrying about a vampire in the hold is something I could do with one!

[Cat]

For a single open-frame ship that's perfect for the Ship in the Fog type scenario, I've had my eye on this one for awhile.  Just bought it now because Amazon offered a 15% discount promotion.
 
I might have bought a few other things from this company, but will wait on those.  The current promotion discouraged buying now — it only applied once to the lowest priced item.  By less and save, go fig.
 
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07V3HNQXF/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A38SOH8RBOUI16&psc=1

[anevilgiraffe]

nice, but no good at dock like they have it in their example photos, they've had to put the gang plank into the main cabin. most of that should be below the dock...

[Aethelflaeda was framed]

Open architecture is nice in certain cases, but i think Giraffe has it. counterproductive if you desire spectacle. That’s why i am thinking cutters…not much of “below decks”.

This might be a nice side table tool to pullout and replace an on-table ship if the action reaches below decks, but probably essential for A “Last Voyage of the Dementer” sort of scenario.  For that i would probably still just use deck plan maps to keep things hidden from players in  a RPG scenario with a GM

[Cat]

I've played in a game with one of these open ships, and it worked quite nicely, even with the vertical tuning askew outside the ship.  Conceptually that may be jarring, but I didn't hear any of the players or spectators commenting on that at all.  Lots of exclamations over how well it worked in gameplay.  The open structure leads the players right into this is not visual realism.  YMMV of course.
 
For the scenario I played in, docks and longboats were used so the troops would have to make an initial advance towards the ship from different sides.
 
Photos over here on FB, but with privacy settings, you probably need to be a member of the group to see them:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/460868411872277/posts/689646402327809/

[anevilgiraffe]

it's an interesting work around... wonder if they do bigger ones, a Demeter scenario requires more real estate to explore.

[Aethelflaeda was framed]

Cat, where did you find your longboats?

[anevilgiraffe]

dammit... I feeling all enthused* and wishing I'd entered the BSC this year...

*it will pass