RFCM

Oh dear  ; why do some businesses find fulfilling an order to the required specifications so difficult? It's as if in my old job I was required to teach the Roman invasion of Britain, and somewhow managed to do it without mentioning Roman legions, British chariots or the Emperor Claudius.

Two different, yet similar C19th things. First off I am giving the Dominion of...... rules a try out using the Balaclava scenario in 2mm. Completed the Russian force and now started on the Anglo-Turkish force. 14 bases in total (as I have given each force an HQ base). Secondly started a project to paint up my long standing 10mm Franco-Prussians of Republican French and Prussians/Bavarians in greatcoats. 30mm frontage bases to suit Square Bashing (but 20mm depth - still getting four or five infantry to a base). Will probably add a bit of snow. So as to keep a focus I am painting just the troops for a Villers-Bretonneux scenario, to also include the French unloading a battery of guns from a train. I enjoy these rules so much that my next focus will be a 15mm BEF August 1914 scenario, set during the Great Retreat.

Nice work, Neil.

I am too committed to other periods, and at this point starting and painting a new one has become unviable. Consequently I am now in the process of downsizing my collections, hopefully to people at least a couple of decades younger than me.

Back when the Forum changed I asked to be put on the simpler version, since which time I have had very little problem in accessing the Forum.

As this took place only 8 years before the battle of Fornovo I imagine the German pike/long spear would still be wearing tight hose, but possibly wearing the squared off footwear worn by Maximillian. The tunic upper sleeves were doubtless beginning to be slashed and some may have begun to adopt bonnets instead of helmets, although the front rank was likely to be armoured. At the time long haired and beardless was very much the fashion. I have considered a head swap for some of the PP spear/pike figures, using the civilian hats heads.

The Irish were mostly javelin men in yellowish tunics and barelegged, although there may also have been a few of the Gallowglass type in helmets and long mail shirts who fought in closer formation.

Quote from: martin goddard on September 06, 2025, 07:44:47 PMThere is a problem with games packing up at 3 o clock or earlier.

That has always annoyed me as well. Sometimes even traders did that.

I have re-started my 15mm Italian Wars armies as well as my 15mm Square Bashing 1914 armies (Belgian, German, British and some help from the French). I have also started a brand new 15mm project - Netherlands, May 1940. Never thought I'd ever get round to WWII, but there you go.

They look really good. SB is very much my favourite set of RFCM rules with which I have now had games set in the FPW, Western Front 1914, The Caucasus 1915, Russia 1920 and Poland 1920. Currently toying with the idea of a Bavaria v Prussia 1866 game using a variant of SB.

Funnily enough I have now parted with my 10mm Square Bashers in the desire to bring my 15mm up to par. They have gone to a good friend  in my former club back in the UK. Still Square Bashing with my 10mm FPW armies.

Thank goodness nobody said anything when I bought goats at a show about 10 years ago. That could have led to an arrest in these days of preciousness.

That was at Colours as well. I think the thing I most miss about the UK is the club overnight trips to places like Newbury, Reading and Abingdon. Might make a point of going down to Antwerpen for this year's Crisis. That will depend on my son's schedule at that time as he is currently training to become a Dutch train driver.

Yeah, that lovely range of FK15 Romans and other classical armies is not there either, nor the range of Renaissance English, which provided the only accurate 15mm figures for the likes of Flodden and other early wars of Henry VIII.

Two things - the game looks impressive in a period I am interested in (so unlikely to go and look at robots chasing wizards) and the players look like they would be willing to talk to passers-by (seen too many show games where all you see is a sea of bent backs and after about 5 minutes you have still not seen a face that looks interested in speaking to the public).

Sadly, WWI does not appear in that list, but as I said, Minifigs do have WWI German hussars, and, to use a recently coined phrase, I could always use PP kit-bashed dismounted figures, horseholders and heads (possibly Russian/Cossack)