I maintain a pretty active eBay shop. I also have an Etsy shop that does just 54mm.
Today I received a note from a multi-order customer on eBay.
I wanted to post it here. Thank you for reading 🙂
Chris
Dear greenknight4,
Thanks! Lazy bastid that I am have not gotten around to leaving feedback – my regrets. They are great minis, you provide exemplary service and the gift leader figures on both occasions were a most welcome surprise. I will not mention those in feedback as I dont want to create the expectation that free minis are standard
May not be ordering for a while because I got a good deal on some painted british and its a skirmish game
Being a uniform and flag design service to wargamers and to the imaginary crowned heads of 17th and 18th Century Europe, especially of the Seven Years War period – now By Appointment to the Court of Saxe-Bearstein! (But please note that the uniforms and flags presented here are not fictional – they are genuine 17th and 18th Century uniforms and flags that are as authentic as I can make them from my sources.)
Brittany Hill 103: Command Decision 1944 Medieval Germans vs SubSaharan Malians: ADLG Steve’s Game Day: Space Base and Quacks of Quedlinburg Frontier Rumble: Song of Drums and Tomahawks 6th Armored Drive In Brittany: Leave a Message HMGS 2023 Board Election Results Game Review: Desert Storm: The Hundred Hour War Desert Storm Air War: Perspectives & Prospects 2002 Biding Time on Thebus: Brax – Traveller RPG The Treasure Ship Caper: Traveller RPG On My Mind: Little Wars TV Ideas Ramming Speed: Greek Trireme Battle
Books I’ve Read:
The Battle of Rocroi: 1643 (Century of the Soldier # 94)
Men of Armor: US B Co, 756 Tank Bttn – Vol. 2
Alpini: Italian Mountain Troops 1872-Present
Battle of Leyte Gulf: Largest Sea Battle
The Shogun’s Soldiers: Vol. 2 (Century of the Soldier # 99)
HMS Formidable: Arthur Flint’s War (WWII)
Armies of the Italian Risorgimento: 1848-1870
The Hundred Years War: 1337-1453 (Ess Hist)
Italian Campaign 1941-1945: Images of War
Brit Frigates and Escort DDs 1939-45 (NV319)
Confronting Napoleon: Vol. 1 Pultask to Eylau
US Marine Corps 1775-1859 (Elite 251)
Tanks in Operation Bagration 1944 (NV 318)
The Redcoats of Wellington’s Light Division
Hydaspes 326BC: Campaign 389
Battle of Gettysburg 1863 (2): Campaign 391
The Spy From Place Saint-Sulpice (novel)
Skyfarer: The Drifting Lands 1 (fantasy novel)
Into Deepest Space (sci-fi novel)
Operation Rype: WWII OSS Mission Norway
Captain Empirical (sci-fi novel)
The Philadelphia Campaign: 1777
Such a Clash of Arms: Maryland Campaign 1862
Men and Machines (sci-fi short stories)
Military Low-Level Flying: From F-4 to F-35
8th SS Cavalry Division Geyer: Images of War
Stalingrad: Death of an Army – BattleCraft
The Historical Atlas of the British Isles
Here’s the latest newsletter for your gaming pleasure with ACW, British Colonial (The Men Who Would Be Kings), and Fantasy wargaming actions, the continuing Traveller RPG adventures of Brax and company, Tank Museum and other spots, and the usual group of book reviews.
The Memorial Day holiday is coming up and I hope you make some time for gaming of all types.
Contents
Runnin’ With The Devil: ACW Regiments
Historical Vacation: A CT and MA Week
Brax Rests Up: Traveller Space Battle
Simple Fields of Glory: Fantasy Battle
Gateway Game Day: June 24 – Abington, PA
Aerocatures: Jet Card Game and WWII Book
Lost in Translation: Hengist
WingSpan: Hello, Hello, Birdie
Ukraine Wargame: First Look
Battle of Ginnis: The Dice Who Would Be Kings (British Colonial)
Books I’ve Read:
Carthage At War: Punic Armies c814-146 BC
Japanese War Fantasy 1933: Future US-Japan War
Tiger Loose on an Ice Floe: 1914 Indian Brigade
Men of Warre: 1460-1600 Retinue to Regiment #16
Hellenistic Naval Warfare and Warships 336-30 BC
British vs German Coastal Weapons: Duel 125
2 CM FLAK 38 & Flakvierling 38: Camera On 29
Brit Lt Inf vs. Patriot Rifleman: Combat Men 72
Nakajima Ki-49 ‘Helen’ Units: Combat Aircraft 148
Henschel HS 126: Camera On 30
US Navy 1883-2019: V4 Pt1: Torp Boats, Destroyers
Battles of the Wars of the Roses
Boeing F-15 E/K/SG Strike Eagle: Duke Hawkins 26
Boeing B-1B Lancer: Duke Hawkins 27
Byzantine Cavalryman vs. Vandal Warrior: Combat 73
7TP: Vehicle Single No. 02
Tiger I: Vehicle Single No. 06
Armies of the Roman Republic: 264 – 30 BC
Bf 109 Jabo Units in the West: Combat Aircraft 149
The Dacians and Getae at War: Men-at-Arms 549
The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventure
The Good Captain: Personal Memoir of America at War
HALO: The Flood (sci-fi)
Tales of Urath: Book 1 Of Dragons and Drakes
Bazooka Charlie: Maj. Carpenter and Rosie Rocketeer
A Photo History of Amphibious Warfare: 1939-1945
Warship 2023
Dragoons and Dragoon Operations 1638-1653 (Century of Soldier 99)
The days are getting longer and so is my lawn, so I better send out this month’s AAR now and use the daylight to fire up the mower…
Here’s what’s in April’s AAR:
Raabid Combat: Shako II 1809 Wargame The Unpredictable French Cavalry: Raab Return of the Jedi: I Fly The X-Wing Again Battle of Red, Battle of White: War of the Roses Tonight Fantasy Battle: Simple Field of Glory Face The Nation: Die Tosses of Fate Historicon 2022: Attendee Number Correction Fall In! 2022: ConDir After Action Report Cold Wars ADLG Tourney: More Recaps Balkans Gambit: More Info AHIKS: Battle of Midway Analysis Clash of Carriers: ATO Magazine Wargame Release Accurate Simulations: New Wargame Company Follow Up DBWR: Roses Renewed
Books I’ve Read:
Road to Barbarossa: Soviet-German Relations 1917-1941
Wars of the Roses: People, Places and Battlefields
Kitchener and the Dardanelles Campaign: Vindication
Russia’s Five-Day War: Georgia 2008 (Elite 250)
Bounty HM Armed Vessel 1787: ShipCraft 30
Forgotten Heroes: WWII Hungarian Aces
100 Greatest Battles
South China Sea 1945: TF 38 – Air Campaign 36
US Destroyers vs. German U-Boats: Duel 127
Assault on the Gothic Line 1944: Campaign 387
Soviet Tanks in Manchuria 1945: New Vanguard 316
Nambu Pistols: WWII Handguns Japan – Weapons 86
The Ark (sci fi)
Invasion: Book 1 Contact (sci fi)
The Stars Now Unclaimed (sci fi)
Dark Waters, Starry Skies: Solomons Mar-Oct 1943
Panzer III North Africa 1942-1943: TankCraft 40
Panzer Reconnaissance
Through Bitter Seas (WWII novel)
Dictionary of Fortifications: Illustrated
Few games have achieved a strategic play that is so elegant in its simplicity. The wooden blocks provide uncomplicated but effective fog of war and step reduction. The mechanics are straightforward group activation for town-to-town movement, with road limits affected by crossing rivers, and can be learned in minutes. However, the free deployment, wide open map, faster speed for cavalry and horse artillery, as well as forced marches can lead to sweeping maneuvers that can take years to master. No two games are alike. It is a great strategy game.
When enough forces have coalesced and both commanders agree to a battle, the blocks are moved, with their step reductions, to a stylized battle mat. The subtle “paper/scissors/rock” differences of the Horse and Musket and Cannon era are preserved. The campaign map allows for reinforcements to be brought on adding to the tension. The movement of the blocks on to and across the “battlefield” have a tactile sense that no other board game can match. It gives a feel more akin to a miniature battle than any cardboard counter/tweezer game could possibly provide.
Napoleon Board game Map
The Background:
As satisfying as these battles have been, and I’ve fought hundreds, I’ve always thought “How cool would it be if I could move this battle to the table top instead of this little mat?”. The game provides an instant order of battle, with effective fog of war and a definite strategic context. With a proper table top road network set up, the reinforcements arrive at times unknown to the enemy, and on the flanks rather than just as a general Reserve-“Hey, what’s the dust on that road mean?”. What more can you ask for in a campaign vehicle?
HouseRules Napoleonic
I have long been a fan (acolyte actually) of Brian Stokes’ “HouseRules Napoleonics (HRN)” which we are currently revising extensively and renaming “Soldats de l”Empire!(SdIE)”. I use these for miniature battles and decided to come up with a way to fight the entire Waterloo Campaign using these two excellent gaming systems. I love HRN/SdlE, as it allows really big battles to be fought with a true “Napoleonic” feel to them. Please understand, though, that my idea can be adapted to any miniature rules.
I have had a fascination for the Helen of Toys line since I was very young. My first recollection was getting the American Revolutionary War set when I was in 1st or second grade. They were of course the flat version with the canons molded together in two or three deep pieces. I have a set of these today.
I recently found a website that listed all of the games. I will place the link here but I wanted to recreate it so it would live on.
I just wanted to mention to my readers (thank you) that I am now printing figures commercially. Well sort of but not in great quantities.
Elegoo 3d Printer
As such I have decided to focus on 40mm miniatures (what?) YAWN.
I know, I know – most people have no interest in this scale but since I have the scale, thought I would start to print up miniatures that no one else in the US is making. So there is the key right there. That no one else makes in the US.
I am also selling painted miniatures and games. These are mostly from my collection right now but as I go to shows I will be picking up more and more items to lest here.
40mm Seven Years War Painted Miniatures
Fear not, this will not turn into a retail only operation. I will continue to support and release games and scenarios in the future, it is my passion.
