Thursday, 14 September 2023

Elite Tatar Warriors finished ...

All painted up...

and with the rest of the horde-let


Friday, 1 September 2023

Elite Tatar Warriors (WIP)

Selected a few types of my castings Tatar, Polish Pancerni and Ottoman cavalry riders, to do some conversion to make up a unit of Elite Tatar warriors....(sons of nobles..)

Saturday, 29 July 2023

Adding to the Library (5) ...

Soldiers & Weapons Polish-Ottoman war books...

Nice books, the main text is in Italian (which I can just about read, with help from online translate tools)  The colour plates are nicely done and cover the troops types - the text for these is in Italian and English.

Thursday, 13 July 2023

Polish Light Cavalry ... reworked....

 While I had the 17th century storage boxes out, I noticed my Polish Light Cavalry needed some attention, I'd painted the two units, one in a green theme and the other a blue theme - a bit too 'uniform'. So I've repainted/rebased them to give a better look.


The original green and blue themed units....
On the workbench and altering hats ....
Some of the coats repainted and blue/green/red/brown now intermingled....much better than before

Monday, 10 July 2023

Tatars painted ....

 Finally got round to painting the tatars I cast in February(!)..

They join the rest to make up a horde-let ....
The commanders...

Monday, 27 February 2023

Tatars .. recruiting more ...

The current tatar force ...

Recently I spent a bit of time casting twelve more, 
this will give me a total of 32 +  three command, enough to make a good sized raiding force or as allies for a potential cossack army.


Sunday, 5 February 2023

Adding to the Library (4) ...

Recently arrived  ...  Charles X's Wars Volume 3 - The Danish Wars, 1657-1660, by M.F. von Essen


briefly perused on arrival, I've just started reading it in depth.. so far a very good read ...

Tuesday, 31 January 2023

Hoflandt Campaign PDF

I've put together the Hoflandt campaign PDF. Wittenberg and Saxe-Jarlsberg in conflict over control of the Hoflandt. It has an introductory section and includes all the relevant blog posts from the campaign (the pictures link to those on the posts so you can click and enlarge if you want to). 


The link to access the PDF is here:

Wednesday, 25 January 2023

The Treaty of Montberg..

With no viable remaining field army, Wittenberg in possession of the Hoflandt, Saxe-Jarlsberg has no alternative to sue for peace. Saxe-Jarlsberg will cede control of the Hoflandt to Wittenberg.

Delegates gather at in the abbots hall  at the Montberg abbey.  The finalisation of the treaty to end hostilities in the Hoflandt will be signed.  Cardinal Lazunarund and his assistant has already arrived and is about to go into the hall, the Cardinal will sign the treaty for Wittenberg. The coach carrying Count Pottensdorf, the Herzog of Saxe-Jarlsberg's first minister, has just arrived ....

---oXo---

This brings an end to this Hoflandt mini-campaign



Monday, 2 January 2023

Adding to the Library (3) ...

 More information on the deluge... 'Against The Deluge' from Helion by Mical Paradowksi..

A nice book, full of info and well worth a read.