Talavera Dawn Attack Scenario - Game Preview

[carojon]

Hi all,
The next scenario in a series to be play tested to recreate Marshal Victor's dawn assault on the Cerro de Medellin is set to be played tomorrow night.



I have put up a few pre game pictures to give an idea of the set up together with some thoughts about the game plan, so if you would like to know more or want to leave a comment, just follow the link to JJ's

http://jjwargames.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/talavera-dawn-attack-preview.html

Jonathan

[Mason]

That is a wonderful looking table full of gorgeous figures.
 

There is nothing quite like seeing a mass of Napoleonic's set up like that.
 

[carojon]

Cheers Mason, I'm glad you like it.

You are quite right, Napoleonics fought in the Grand Manner is always a treat for the eye.

Thanks for your comment
JJ

[Jeff965]

Lovely looking table, is the terrain commercial or homemade ?

[Jeff965]

Whoops forget that Jonathan, just looked at your blog under the terrain tag. Marvellous, got quite a bit of reading to do now .

Jeff

[carojon]

No problem Jeff, glad you like the look of it.
Cheers
JJ

[OSHIROmodels]

A fine set up Jonathan   

cheers

James

[Marine0846]

Lovely setup.
The table looks great.
Love the photos on your blog.

[Atheling]

Marvelous set up and great pics. 

I'd love to see some close ups of the action if there are any such snaps

Darrell.

[carojon]

Thanks chaps , appreciate the comments.

Darnell, I will be taking some close ups of the action as we play tonight and I'll be using the mini-tripod so they should be a lot better than these quick snaps. AAR to follow.

Cheers
JJ

[Atheling]

Darrell, I will be taking some close ups of the action as we play tonight and I'll be using the mini-tripod so they should be a lot better than these quick snaps. AAR to follow.

Fab, I'm looking forward to reading it and certainly seeing the close up pics of such a lovely set up 

Darrell.

[olicana]

I love the colour of the landscape. All too often everything is too green for the Peninsular. Having been to a few battlefields in Spain I know that you have it just about right. It's hard to do parched grass without making it look like desert terrain and you have managed this wonderfully.

Please tell me, is that a cloth over 'contour formers' beneath with the frame edging added on top to hold everything in place? I can't see any lines indicating it is other than a one piece surface.

If so, the edging is very clever and something I've been thinking of adding to my table for a few years - I use a sprayed snooker baize for my surface - and this is the first time I've seen what this might (and I say might) look like.

Thank you for posting.

James Roach

[carojon]

Hi James, thank you.

Yes I get a lot of comment on the table and mat. Like all good ideas I got this one from what other people were doing. Lord Ashrams blog had a very nice table built around a frame within a frame to lock down the mat he was using over terrain formers.

I simply borrowed his idea and built it, with the help of my son Tom, around my ping pong table. The mat is from Terrain Mat and it locks down under the frame keeping it taught and providing the rolling terrain effect. The base of the table is covered in insulation board.

I soften the contours by putting a felt cloth over the styrene underneath and the insulation boards and foam allow me to pin surface terrain like streams that can easily get moved during play.

It is very adaptable to adding boards for when you need variations in gradient such as when we did Oporto last year. In that case I built the river gorge on boards and raised my mat on the other half of the table to tessellate with it.

All the work on the table together with the construction of each game table is on the blog and you can see what we did. The labels are Wargames Table and Terrain to look up the stuff you want to check out.

I hope that helps

Cheers
JJ

[olicana]

Hi JJ,

Thank you, I'll check that out.

Many thanks,

James