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shores of the cold sea shores of the cold sea far away on the shores of a turbulent grey sea under a brooding steely sky cavalry hooves and cannonfire shake the earth and the rumble of distant musketfire drifts into earshot on the biting wind info notes and thinking aloud have not the wisest men in all ages had their hobby horses their coins cockle shells drums trumpets fiddles pallets maggots and their butterflies pages home map mercurius frigidius arboria teutonia muscavian empire mussulamian empire strandia vlachovia how and why personages monday 6 april 2026 progress despite life intervening with tragedy and challenges despite moving house and rebuilding yet another old house despite age setting in and worldly distractions multiplying despite lethargy sloth and the temptations of a myriad other projects despite all these odds i have begun again with the cold sea sources a source of new information and new impetus has been the fortunate discovery of new material pertaining to the martial history of the nations around the cold sea the first was the result of browsing an antiquarian bookshop a massive tome caught my eye and it proved to be a battered copy of the rare official history of the wars printed by the arborians the events being so distant in time and place from the modern and more southerly city where i found it the proprietor let me have it for a song the second fount of inspiration i discovered amongst the effects of an old uncle who unfortunately recently expired at the age of 103 in his younger days he had also become fascinated with the wars of olden times and a dusty shelf of books included a key find despite the spine being so damaged it was not at first apparent what i had hold of a quick glance at the title page showed me i had inherited a copy of aage lynsverd s memoir of the great borelian war newly armed and reanimated i have embarked on the retelling of arboria s great project to civilise the wilder bounds of the cold sea and the turmoil it let loose on the northern lands next episode will be the tale of the spark which ignited the blaze posted by plasticviking at 07 57 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday 6 february 2025 re pontoons again i forgot to include a little explanation of my choice of size for the pontoon models i ended with card models 10cm long these looked ok on the waggons and two filled my rivers nicely to further justify this choice i should also show this photo also no paddle nor a creek luckily i made a model in the same scale as the figures 40mm or about 1 36 then made a model at the ground scale of 1mm to the metre pace yard the true scale model was obviously to tiny and the figure scale boat would be ok for a diorama but a bridge or waggon train using them would have blotted out my wargame table hence the practical choice of a 10cm pontoon big enough to look realistic small enough to be used on the table the waggon started with a pair of horses but also got rationalised down to a single one workshop pontoon waggon and pontoon posted by plasticviking at 10 15 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday 5 february 2025 war waggons the sinews of war in the age of musket pike and sword ran on wheels the wheels of supply waggons which had to roll or everything else would have stopped powder shot charcoal flour mills provisions fodder shoes etc all trundled behind the army to keep it fighting waggon and supplies just a few of the waggons accompanying an army after goransson in the swedish army the commissariat waggons were known as rust waggons rust derived from the german for equipment tools the danish army knew such support waggons as corpse waggons not a jolly load russia great war the greatest of marlborough s victories blenheim relied on his army marching up the rhine and over to the danube in order to knock bavaria out of the war and save vienna this distance was 250 miles or so and had to be covered speedily therefore marlborough made supply depots in advance of his campaign and kept a veil of secrecy over the whole operation so that the french were caught off guard and could not stop him before he arrived at the danube the march to the danube from warhistoryonline com the march could not have been accomplished with the usual enormous supply train and commissariat following on the heels of the army so minimal supplies were taken along and troops were resupplied en route as we marched through the country of our allies commissars were appointed to furnish us with all manner of necessaries for man and horse the soldiers had nothing to do but pitch their tents boil kettles and lie down to rest surely never was such a march carried on with more order or regularity or with less fatigue to man and horse wrote captain parker of the royal irish regiment idyllic army camp life when all is well all the necessaries had to be emplaced by waggons and achieving this on the horrendous roads of the time was an enormous achievement roads were really only ways or commonly used routes with no paving and little formal maintenance the great north road circa 1700 more like a ploughed field i really don t know how we would manage without the four wheel drive dear an army used its pioneers engineers labourers and contract workmen to better any seriously problematic stretches join the army they said see the world they said daniel defoe recounts a trip from rochdale to halifax in 1725 the mark or face of a road on the side of the hill but it was so narrow and so deep a hollow place on the right whence the water descending from the hills made a channel at the bottom and looked as the beginning of a river that the depth of the precipice and the narrowness of the way look d horrible to us we thought now we were come into a christian country again and that our difficulties were over but we soon found ourselves mistaken in the matter for we had not gone fifty yards beyond the brook and houses adjacent but we found the way began to ascend again and soon after to go up very steep till in about half a mile we found we had another mountain to ascend in our apprehension as bad as the first and before we came to the top of it we found it began to snow too as it had done before the horror the horror definitely work for pioneers and engineers another key factor was to use gigs and tumbrils two wheeled carts britain s selection of carts not much different in 1700 tumbrils tumbrels have had a bad press due to the frog revulsion they were typically also used for cartage of fertiliser at muck spreading time making their use for carting aristo s even more piquante for the mad knitters honestly my dear i am not scared tis the tumbril that reeks mr dickens has not sued yet and mr carton cannot ed rather than large four wheeled waggons like pantechnicons wains dreys etc eightenth century long and wide load in addition horses were hitched in tandem to make a slimmer vehicle waggons with several pairs of heavy horse could be of monstrous size and weight not one for the narrow ways easily stuck in mud or bad going whilst a large wheeled cart with two horses in tandem could get by obstacles and traffic in bad weather much more easily daisy and daisy give me your answer do i had to make some supply waggons so sought the simplest variety the footprint should be small because the scale is 40mm therefore a one horse two wheel waggon is the solution as per the blenheim tapestry of the battle of wynendæl less one horse just right the carts on the wyndendæl tapestry at blenheim are just right for their purpose large wheels conquer the ruts and stones more easily than small the waggon is as light as possible whilst stil keeping the load secure the load is preserved fom sun and rain by a tarpaulin the carter walks or rides on a horse side saddle if he needs the horses are in tandem so the whole vehicle is not filling the way here was my prototype the wheels were a problem had to find them on ebay 40 50mm was ok laser cut ornamenetal thingies did the job carters could be converted from seven years war figures why does everyone want to get me the waggon bodies are made from scrap wood and coffee stirrers base size is 45mm by 100mm so fill them with unspecified supplies hiding under tarpaulins and off we go army waggons may have been painted in regulation colours and have tarpaulins with specific patterns or markings my waggons should do for any army so i have made a random group probably of civilian contractors vehicles wonder how they will do if they get close to the firing line the sinews of war posted by plasticviking at 15 52 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday 31 january 2025 scales and organisation the hydra head one how to organise figures into units on the table that represent their real counterparts in a believable and more or less accurate manner this is a nutty problem how to represent a representation of a hypthetical model up to now i had used bases 60mm wide with 4 foot or 3 horse a fairly common representation used for 25 or 28mm scales photo wargameinnovations co uk there has also been a tendency to mount figures in groups or blocks to form arbitrary elements which avoid committment to specific scales photo from wargamemiscellany blogspot i wanted to use some accurate representation but ended with an arbitrary grouping of 4 foot or 3 horse to stand for a company two companies of musketeers and one of pikemen plus a command element gave me a battalion three companies of horse with a command element also gave me a squadron in this way a battalion can stand in line or column or square a squadron in line or column or line there were several causes of dissatisfaction with this scheme 1 the battalion appears as a pike block with sleeves of shot rather than a pike reinforced musket line 2 the pike base has no shot and the musketeer bases have no pikes 3 the horse are rather dense with a relatively short frontage 4 if i wanted to incorporate shallow formations of shot there was little scope so with nails bitten back eyes red with poring over books and my remaining hair writhed out by frustrated fingers i resolved to do something anything to solve and remove this unbudging persistant irk only with clothes on posted by plasticviking at 15 47 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday 24 january 2025 the toons of pont part ii the pontoon train began to take shape the basic waggons are to carry two boats each is accompanied by a supporting waggon with rails and decking and some workmen we dig dig dig dig dig dig dig and more bloody digging this gives a suitable train which does not take too much table space but is cumbersone enough make a general think twice before sending it into a crowded front line the bases ended up being 45mm by 100mm the pontoon waggons are still 120mm here rules the pontoon bridge can be deployed onto a river but not onto a rivulet rivulets require fascines or trestle bridges 1 no suitable place is necessary but pontoon bridges cannot be used at rocky clefts or near rapids or waterfalls they may be put over a ford 2 the following actions each require a full un interrupted turn and must be accomplished in series a boat waggon drives to river bank where bridge will be erected b the boats are placed in the river 4 workmen must be adjacent to the waggon at this point c the boat waggon is replaced by the timber waggon d the main span of the bridge is placed 4 workmen need to be adjacent e the ramps are placed 4 workmen need to be adjacent f waggon and workmen retire models and figures can now use the bridge the bridge span has an artillery resistance of 6 each boat 3 boats can be repaired by two workmen turns of effort the bridge is wooden and so can be fired burning irreparably after 3 turns of fire six turns seems along time in a game but often the bridges will be in place already as a game starts my version of goransson s pontoon column next the waggons of war posted by plasticviking at 14 50 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday 16 december 2024 everybody s digging it i was just last evening painting not yet finished some workmen they are simple conversions from prince august artillerymen who has the best job today i get a circular from helion that the sardinian piedmontese book by david wilson is out i look over there and surprise the illustrations have the same style as prince august use and lo and behold there is a labourer illustrated somewhat similar methinks if you live long enough coincidences start popping up everywhere anyway the book is ordered more inspiration hopefully p s digging is culture https youtu be dizjgbnanzk posted by plasticviking at 07 51 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts 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