Sunday, July 1, 2012

La Primera Batallia

...or something. Having long ago been bitten by the Black Powder virus of course I had to buy Pike & Shotte, also by Warlord Games. There are enough reviews available to make it superfluous I add another, but the rules prompted me to a new scale: 10mm.

Building P&S armies in 28mm is not only very expensive (although less so since Warlord started with their plastics) but is epecially space-consuming. Having played one BP game too many witrh 28mm troops lined up from table edge to table edge in six ranks deep I decided for something smaller. 20mm had little to offer for the period, I don't like 15mm because it doesn't look nearly as good as 20mm and takes up the same amount of space but 10mm seemed the perfect compromise.

Having decided this I looked around for a manufacturer and Pendraken seemed the best choice in quality per euro. So I ordered an army!

The painting was a joy. Here are the first examples of Ordnance and Foot, based for P&S on 1 inch square bases.


Medium gun with horse and limber


A separate horse and limber stand to well, unlimber the gun actually...


Hence an unlimbered gun and crew. 


The Battallia, 24 shotte and 24 pike drawn up in block-and-wings. The small stands actually enable all kinds of formations like a massive tercio, loose Swedish Brigade and march columns and such. The house in the background is a scaled down papercraft building. Of course, since 10mm is a first for me, I need lots of new scaled-down terrain!


Close up of the pike command stand.



Pike in march column


And finally the unit drawn up to receive cavalry (hedgehog in the P&S rules).

I was amazed at the amount of detail available on such a small scale and at the same time the ease with which you could paint them. A joy! I still have a few hundred to go, so stay tuned. Cuirassiers and medium horse are next!

9 comments:

  1. Looks very cool - the gun stands especially.

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  2. Some very nice looking troops, keep up the great work!

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  3. Looking good. Pendraken figures are a joy to paint

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  4. Ziet er goed uit JW! 10mm is ook gaaf :)

    Pike and shot any good? Zit zelf ooit te denken aan 10mm 80jarige oorlog.

    Groetjes,
    Ivo
    PS: Geboorte kaartje gehad? 2 mensen hebben het niet gekregen dus ik check even.

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  5. Nice paint job! Do you have any opponents in the NL playing P&S in 10mm?

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  6. Certainly. A friend of mine in Amersfoort is busy building a Papist -pardon; an Imperial army ;o)

    And since these 10mm figures paint amazingly fast (when approached Henry Ford-style) it won't be long before the first clash. Pike & Shotte is the ruleset of choice at the moment.

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  7. Well, I think it won't be long before another 10mm P&S United Provinces army will hail from Frisia. ;)

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  8. Petra and me own 30 yrs war Danish and Swedish armies in 10mm.
    I also have lots of terrain. So lets play sometime.
    We currently use FOG:R

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