Cowpens and Kings Mountain: Visiting two pocket National Battlefield Parks

 We visited Charlotte last week for my wife's paper presentation. After that on the drive back we visited two pocket battlefields, Cowpens and King's Mountain. Here are videos from both visits.

Iliada Game Studio 6mm Ancient Mediterranean Buildings

 Ali from Iliada Game Studio was nice enough to gift me some of his lasercut, soft mdf infra structures from his ancient world line (Click here).

While a bit of a challenge to put together, they look great once placed on a base with flocking and vegetation. They come already painted. They will be used for my 10mm games. I highly recommend them.

Some more wargaming Might and Reason

 Our monthly game with Nacho and Onur two weeks ago was a battle pitting early 18th century Ottomans and Hpasburg Imperials in a game of Might and Reason. It ended in an Imperial victory over the Ottomans in what was mainly a learning game.  Figures were 1/72, a collection of Zvezda, Mars, and Strelets

Gaming and Painting Update

 Praise the hellish move. My wife relaxed our harsh (but needed) covid protection measures and I was able to play again last Sunday at Nahco's. 

1st Game: Lasalle II 6mm game pitting my 6mm Prussias vs. my 6mm French. A good fun game even if I lost. (Pictures below)

2n Game: WAB 2 game using Nacho's 28mm Macedonians and Persians. I lost again. I did have fun, though it hit me how primitive WAB felt after years of Too Fat Lardies, and Sam Mustafa games. DBA does not give that feeling or primitive. But WAB did. Happy to play with Nacho who knows the rules by heart, but not something I would invest time in (Pictures below)

I also completed my painting projects finishing my 28mm Old Man's Creations Greek Revolution figures (Pictures below).

Command bases for English Civil War 28mm, and parading the 10mm 19th century stuff

Completed the other three 28mm Command Figures for my Parliamentarian War of the Three Kingdoms Army for Liber Militum: Tercios. These are Old Glory miniatures. With them I have all the needed command bases for my force. I also paraded my 10mm Greek and Ottoman Armies for 1877-1897, and also tried my current terrains system (targeted at 15mm and below scales)

Some command figures

 I am slowly getting through my projects. Here are some pictures of the completed Old Man's Creations Theodore Kolokotronis. He will be used as command figure for my mixed force of Greek regulars and irregulars for Sam Mustapha's Lassale. 

  

Online game of Lasalle 2

 Me and Nacho were able to get in half a game of Lasalle 2. This was my first game, and the first synchronous online miniature game I have played (until now all my online games are asynchronous mostly chit and board war-games, plus a play-test of my 1st Inonu battle back at the start of the Pandemic). Scenario was weighted scenario 4 "Making the Omelette". 

 

I set up two forces from what I had available. 134 points of 1813-1814 French (one infantry brigade of five battalions, plus foot artillery and one mixed cavalry brigade of on heavy and one light cavalry unit) and 204 points of Prussians (two identical infantry brigades of four infantry battalions, one Uhlan unit, and foot artillery). Nacho chose the Prussians.

 

Rebasing: 6mm Napoleonics for Lassalle 2

 I have been rebasing my 6mm Bacchus Napoleonics for Lassale 2. This will be my main "small spaces" game, as the 20mm Base Width permits a game on 48x72 cm table. 

Hera are some bad pictures