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Reply To: Some good viewing for Napolenonic fans…

May 10, 2019 at 4:40 pm #1388964

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Ah Aspern-Essen what a meat grinder (and some large massed heavy cav charges you don’t see very often in later battles). Interesting as this was when the Austrians started with their new drills (for shoddy conscripts) that lead to “perhaps” their downfall from grace in the Napoleonic era (in the Seven Year Wars, the Austrians are SERIOUSLY hard).

I keep supressing the urge to do something in 6mm with a fig ratio of 1:10 (meaning most French units would be 60 figures, but Austrian Line would be well over 100)……perhaps in greatcoats 😀

But it would seriously give the table a feeling of mass troops. I’ve seen it done many years ago using Heroics and Ros ACW figures at 1:10 and nothing looks as good as it when you see it on the table (and really shows off the advantage of using 6mm). I’ve done 100 Ancients in 6mm in the time it takes to do perhaps 6 25mm figures (it’s the basing that takes up a lot of extra time).