Weekly wargames rhythm

The last few weeks have been a little light on the 'gaming front, as other aspects of life took precedence. However things have just started to settle back into their more usual rhythm. Last week I took part n another DBA evening at Keith's where 7 of us played a series of DBA games. I was a little too preoccupied to take any photos. You can find Keith's account of the evening here.

This week I took part in the play testing a new scenario for Adrian and Jon's next Volley and Bayonet scenario book: Seneffe, 1674. A wagon load of gold, used as bait by the Prince of Orange in order to bring the French army to battle, must be driven off the board. A very cool scenario, something very different from the usual game as forces entered the board and the battle escalated. The figures are Adrian's beautiful 15mm Dutch and French.

The following evening four of us got together to play some 24 point Hordes of the Things (HotT) games.

Andy's Weird World war 1 Germans and my British

British behemoth attacks German blade

Orc knight (chariot) general about to meet his end at the hands of Murray's Dwarven blade and hero

First outing for the new VSF Prussian, featuring 3 airboats (it was never going to be an easy army to use)

The airboats

Muray's new Ratmen airboat... an inspired piece

Ratmen blades, and sider riders, all old GW figures repurpose for HotT

The stronghold for Murray's Ratmen

All in all, a nice way to ease back into the weekly 'gaming rhythm.

Prussian Death's Head Hussars as 'Riders'

I'd argue that few if any ideas are ever truly original, and this one most certainly isn't. It was a participant in 'The Miniature's Page' forums who made a suggestion about the incorporation of the Prussian Death's Head Hussars into the VSF Prussian army. The poster's suggestion was around a suitable idea for a hero base, but I took it onboard as a suggestion for some bases of riders.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/dancarlin/comments/gghg8f/deaths_head_hussar_colorization/

The poster suggested that a paint conversion from the old Airfix 1/76th Hussars might work, and having a few figures left over from a project from the 1970s (yes, that's 50 years ago.... the figures are that old, and I am even older than that)). In 1975, new 'gamer on the Christchurch scene, Russell, had suggested that you could create a Hun army by the judicious application of the craft knife to Airfix Hussars, so that's what I did (it was the days of WRG Ancients 3rd Edition, and limited figures available anywhere).

Some of the mass of Huns that these days serve as riders for a large nomadic barbarian HotT army, but which could equally serve as Huns in DBA etc

They are a bit crude, but back in the day they did the job ...

But I digress .....

While the British Hussar figures are not accurate representations of the Prussians, this is fantasy 'gaming, so they can be anything I like, and no-one can argue. It's my imagination, my army. So here they are, three bases of HotT riders, a representation of the Death's Head Hussars.

These bases provide some land based mobility for the army over and above that provided by the three airboats. That now makes points 53 points, so 19 to go to reach the Big Battle HotT 72 points ... getting there.