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Author Topic: A foray into Muskets and Tomahawks  (Read 3942 times)

Offline ducat

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A foray into Muskets and Tomahawks
« on: January 06, 2013, 10:25:30 AM »
Well I have become all enthused about this game for the New year.

After a lot of reading around on various forums and blogs I took the plunge just before christmas and picked up the rule book.

I felt so good about it I have even gone and started one of those blogs to chart my progress.

you can see it HERE

Not a huge amount of stuff there at the moment, but I am sure more things will be added soon.

Cheers, John.

Offline itchy

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Re: A foray into Muskets and Tomahawks
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2013, 12:20:30 PM »
Nice start I've been thinking about Front Rank Regulars but the pics are not that good as you say , my Rangers are Galloping major which are stunning and Ive some conquest and Northstar in different units but was waiting for the majors regulars but might get some front rank now , thanks

Offline emperorpenguin

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Re: A foray into Muskets and Tomahawks
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2013, 12:38:16 PM »
They do look good. I agree their photos are unflattering but I also find that with Galloping Major photos and Crusader.

The best photos (not necessarily minis) are Warlord and North star
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Offline itchy

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Re: A foray into Muskets and Tomahawks
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2013, 01:18:05 PM »
thats so true ,the galloping major stuff is really different in the fleash , I find it with a lot of figures .

Offline Galloping Major

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Re: A foray into Muskets and Tomahawks
« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2013, 01:36:59 PM »
thats so true ,the galloping major stuff is really different in the fleash , I find it with a lot of figures .

Hi Gents,
I think you're right, the pictures on the online shop would be better represented by painted ones, maybe one day  ;)
I would recommend a look around the site for pics of painted stuff: The Studio and Gallery pages for instance.
Mulling over putting something out about planned releases for this year, including my first British Regulars  8)

Ducat - interesting blog - nice to see the "from the very start" approach, look forward to seeing more  :)

www.gallopingmajorwargames.com


Offline ducat

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Re: A foray into Muskets and Tomahawks
« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2013, 02:04:56 PM »

Ducat - interesting blog - nice to see the "from the very start" approach, look forward to seeing more  :)


Thank you all for the nice comments so far. Glad some of you have found it useful already.

Out of interest Galloping Major, your figures did pique my interest, as they get a lot of glowing recommendations online.

It was due to the the way your figures mostly come in batch's of six that stopped me going with them for my starting force.

I found it hard to then look at adding a couple of Officer figures with out getting a large batch of extras, which I could not really justify to myself this early on.

Maybe you could think of adding Command packs, that cover a multiple line or something, like 3 regular officers, 2 ranger officers and 1 Indian officer for the British forces as an example. (I use the word Officer loosely, meaning Captain/sergeant/chief/leader etc etc).

Or just some single commander figures would work too  ;D

Just thought you may find it interesting to know and something to consider.

Cheers, John.

Offline itchy

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Re: A foray into Muskets and Tomahawks
« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2013, 02:16:04 PM »
Lance if your Brits are due out  I will hold fire and wait for them .  :)

Offline fergal

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Re: A foray into Muskets and Tomahawks
« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2013, 08:31:28 PM »
Lance if your Brits are due out  I will hold fire and wait for them .  :)

Agreed, I'm in the same boat!  I'm looking to fill some holes that aren't covered with your range Lance, but I can surely wait if I know what's coming!  Throw us a bone!  :)

Offline ducat

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Re: A foray into Muskets and Tomahawks
« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2013, 09:24:57 PM »
A fresh post is up with a couple of pictures and some blurb, with reguard to my first painted guy -

See more at War of the Woods

« Last Edit: January 08, 2013, 11:44:05 PM by ducat »

Offline ducat

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Re: A foray into Muskets and Tomahawks
« Reply #9 on: January 07, 2013, 09:10:07 PM »
The next guy in up, the first of my Indians.

more on my blog, but here is a little picture of the warpaint -

« Last Edit: January 08, 2013, 11:43:23 PM by ducat »

Offline ducat

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Re: A foray into Muskets and Tomahawks
« Reply #10 on: January 10, 2013, 08:56:04 PM »
My first game report is up. Proxy Canadians, Great Fun, and More Fun possibly hampered my reporting and photography skills for this one, but hopefully its not too bad a read through.

View it - HERE

Cheers, John

Offline ducat

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Re: A foray into Muskets and Tomahawks
« Reply #11 on: January 17, 2013, 05:44:12 PM »
A report on my second game is now available from here -

http://warofthewoods.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/second-game.html

My Front rank French have arrived , hopefully some pics and reports will be added soon on those, but as with all things the snowy weather and some real life stuff has delayed my fun time a little.

Cheers, John.

Offline dodge

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Re: A foray into Muskets and Tomahawks
« Reply #12 on: January 19, 2013, 11:09:59 AM »
I like what you are doing, and the from the beginning approach,

I am currently using Studio Tomahawk figures, and I have some Crusader Brits plus some conquest Indians and French through Warlord, but they are quite slight compared to Tomahawk figures.

I am looking forwardtoseeing how you develop it

dodge

Offline Poiter50

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Re: A foray into Muskets and Tomahawks
« Reply #13 on: January 19, 2013, 11:15:31 AM »
I thought they only made rules, do they have figures as well? Who sells the book and figures?

I like what you are doing, and the from the beginning approach,

I am currently using Studio Tomahawk figures, and I have some Crusader Brits plus some conquest Indians and French through Warlord, but they are quite slight compared to Tomahawk figures.

I am looking forwardtoseeing how you develop it

dodge

Cheers,
Poiter50

Offline emperorpenguin

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Re: A foray into Muskets and Tomahawks
« Reply #14 on: January 19, 2013, 12:05:15 PM »
They do only make rules

I think he is referring to the "Official" North Star range for M&T

http://www.northstarfigures.com/list.php?man=132&page=1

 

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