Historical Miniature Wargames
After summer holidays it was time for some naval action, this time with David Manley’s rather spiffing Form Line of Battle rules. Three ships a side, Swedes against Russians. Fun and furious game, but it might make sense to adjust the boarding rules to make it even more difficult to grapple and board enemy ships. The Swedes managed to lose …
A half battalion of 15mm Savo infantry made from some slightly converted 15mm Minifigs Austrians in greatcoats.
Here is the MA Oravainen PDF containing the OB that was put quickly together (plenty of generalization) by Aksu to give March Attack rules. The battle report can be found here.
Since we’ve been using the modified version of the rules for ACW we wanted to see how the proper nappy March Attack was supposed to work so dug up the board and 15mm miniatures for the largest battle of the Russo-Swedish War of 1808 that we did for our 1808 project. With March Attack we noticed that the artillery ranges …
Old pictures of extremely embarassing quality that Aksu uploaded here…
On these pages we describe how to recreate some of the battles of the Russo-Swedish war of 1808-09 in miniature. Gemigabok members have long toyed with the idea of doing something miniature wargaming related with the war of 1808 especially because of the local aspects and all. The realization of the approaching 200th anniversary of the war was the final …
On these pages we describe the battles that we have re-created in miniature.
General de Brigade scenario details are here. Setup for the game. Russian forces occupy Suurkylä (Lapua proper) on lower left and Liuhtari on lower right as well as crossroads inside the forest east of Liuhtari. Finnish forces start advancing from north. 4th brigade skirmishes through the woods towards SE and 2nd brigade trundles through the rye fields towards Suurkylä. Russian …
Most of the regiments used the provincial coat of arms as the emblem in their colours. In most cases each regiment had the same number of colours as it had batallions or squadrons. Jaegers had no colours. The pdf file below has a number of ready-to-print flags.
In these tables you’ll find info on the uniform colors used by Finnish and Swedish units. Info on the equipment can be found on the painting the miniatures -page.