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Battle reports (with pictures!)
Gentlemen,We had two practice games Thursday night for the upcoming Keith Con. On table#1, Joe Maynard led the French troops of Marshall Maurice de Saxe (1740) against Frederick the Great's Prussians...
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Peninsular British
Here's a picture of a few of my Peninsular British figures. They are all Essex 15mm models. Two battalions of British light infantry are supported by a battalion of Cacciatores. A rifle company leads...
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Four more practice games today!The first was Mark Beaudon playing SYW Prussian (left) vs Josh Garrett playing SYW Austrians (right):Several steep hills cut the landscape, covered with rock and brush. A...
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A closer look at the SYW Russian army...
Of all the armies available to the Make Ready! player my weapon of choice is the Seven Year War Russians.Now don't tell Keith this but I think the Russians are a power house in the system. (every time...
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Peninsular British (Part 2)
Here of some more of the figures from my Peninsular British army. They are Old Glory 15mm with flag supplied by Warflag.comKeith
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Games on April 19th
Wow! My house was really active last night as we had three Make Ready! games going on simultaneously. On table one, Gary Gilesovsky with his SYW Russians gave Joe Maynard's ACW Union army its...
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Snow to go?
Static grass, flock, tea leaves and your wife's 7 herbs and spices ... people put everything on a base.For my Russians I like a little snow. How do you get a nice snow effect easy ... raid the kitchen...
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SYW Russia Vs. SYW Austrian
It's not a bad thing when you have too many players wanting to play Make Ready! locally. Keith was busy running a couple of games at his place and I was sent to the book store, J&B's in Trenton, to...
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Portuguese Dragoons
Here's a picture of my Portuguese dragoons. I really like how the Peninsular British army is turning out. So many different uniforms: Brits, Portuguese, Spanish and even a few Germans.
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War of Austrian Succession Battle Report
Thursday's game was a War of Austrian Succession match-up between the Allies (Me & Josh) and the French (Gary). It was a pick-up game, so no particular battle was being recreated. Below we see the...
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SYW Prussian-Russian match-up.
Thursday was yet another enjoyable gaming session with a great bunch of friends. On table one, Mark (pictured below) took his SYW Prussians against Gary's SYW Russians in a 650point open game with...
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SYW Austrians vs ...... SYW Austrians!
This is what wargaming is all about! A great bunch of guys out having fun. At the back table we see Gary & Mark getting ready for their SYW Prussian vs Russian game.At this table Dave & Josh...
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This weekend, June 2nd ... KEITHCON!!!We've been busy painting our armies, honing our lists and developing winning strategiesto take the title from the current reigning champ, Martin Rowland.For those...
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Keith Con 2007 Results
WOW! Keith Con was bigger than ever this year, with twelve players and several visitors as well. Don Cameron from Five Arrows Figures showed up again with his wares as KeithCon's official miniatures...
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Portuguese Cacadores
Hello everyone! There haven't been any post in a while because of "summer shutdown" and because I'm in the middle of a move.Keep watching for new posts soon. Until then, here's a picture of some of my...
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Summers over, the kids are back in school and a new SYW campaign session has begun in our local group of musket balls!Summer was busy with little time for pushing lead on the table. Hopefully Keith and...
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A New Campaign
Well, we've managed to get a Seven Years War campaign going! Our thanks to Steve, who is running the "Grand Strategy" part of the campaign from the States while we fight all the battles here in Canada...
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Good God! No post since September!What can I say, both Keith and myself are busy with family life. Since the last post we've had a few campaign games played. Sweden, Prussia and the Allied States have...
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A French & Indian War game
Well, I finally got a chance to put together a few pictures. Emen and I played a little French & Indian War game recently. Here we see the opening stages of the game. A fleury of French &...
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A Napoleonic Solo Game
I had a chance to play out a Napoleonic solo game set in the Peninsula this week. The picture below shows Wellington ad his boys forming up at the top of the picture. The brown cut out hills are steep,...
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