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I’ve been building up my 18mm Napoleonic armies recently and the other day I received a huge box of figures from Gareth at ADC Painting who is my go to guy when it comes to getting armies painted. Gareth is great because i just tell him what units I want them painted up as and he
Anyone who listens to Meeples and Miniatures will know that I have been playing a lot of the Napoleonic game ‘Over the Hills’ recently and I’ve been using some old figures I got painted up a few years ago. the Miniatures in question were ones I got for a game called Napoleon at War and were
I’ve been using the services of Gareth from ADC painting for many years now and today I received the latest commission I sent him. this was for 3 18mm French Cavalry units produced by Man at War Miniatures and some extra Generals so lets look at the figures First up 2 units of French Lancers
As I’ve just started playing 15mm Napoleonic’s again I decided to treat myself to some nice terrain to fit in with the period and I had a look at a few suppliers. But the problem I found was 15mm terrain was too big for the games I was planning on playing and its because of
After our first game of Over the Hills last week we quickly decided to play another game and try out some of the optional rules included in the book for this second game we extended the forces a bit and used one of the scenarios ‘hold until relieved’ this scenario is fairly straightforward with an
if you read one of my previous posts (it’s here) you’ll know I’ve been looking for a good set of Napoleonic rules that will allow me to use my 15mm figures, well after interviewing Adrian McWalters on the Meeples and Miniatures show I decided to pick up a copy of Over the Hills a rule
Carrying on from my last post its time to look at my 18mm French army, that I put together for games played in the 100 days these are based on the I Corp under D’Erlon at Waterloo 1st Division – Général de Brigade Baron Joachim Jérôme Quiot du Passage 1st Brigade – Colonel Claude Charlet 1er
as I mentioned in my last post (it’s here if you missed it) I want to get back into battalion level Napoleonic wargaming so I decided today to dig out my armies and see what I’ve got, and here is part 1 ‘The British/Allied army during 1815’ like my mate Rich Jones, I think the
Like many wargamers I do enjoy playing Napoleonic games, I think its something that’s burnt into our collective psyche as most people I know have at one time of the other started collecting a Napoleonic army. some people have even finished collecting an army although most people seem to do a couple of units and
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