Pikeman´s Lament

I recently got hold on the rules of The Pikeman´s Lament and have just started to flick through the pages. This post is not meant to be a review so I will not go into details. I can just say that if you like the Lion Rampant rules you will not be disappointed.

When I first heard about the rules my initial thoughts were that this could be the excuse to get that force of Polish Hussars in 28mm with feathers and all that all wargamers dreams about...
I now realise (atleast now when I write this here...) that I have more project then I need so I have done an small inventory of some projects I already have in 15mm that could be translated to The Pikeman´s Lament.

But with that said, its not impossible that I just might start an 28mm project. I have always wanted to do 30years war but never took that step.




First out in fitting miniatures to reuse in Pikeman´s Lament is from my 15mm Great Northern War.
The miniatures here are initially painted up for Gå På but I never got enough painted to play the game with my miniatures.

Here under we have an Danish force of

* Guards - Shot, Veterans: 4+2
* Line - 2x Shot: 2x4
* Dragoons: 4
* Regimental gun, Field guns: 4+2

I got some Swedes painted up but not enough or not right configuration for this set of rules, but I got loads of unpainted miniatures left so that could be a future project to fix up.



Next I got is my 15mm French and Indian war project. The project was initially planed for Black Powder and I played some nice games with them.

I didnt have enough painted up to field an French force in The Pikeman´s Lament so that would be a nice future project.

But for the British I could come up with this:
Much more skirmishers then I would like but it is doable.

* 2x British Line - Shot, Veterans : 2x(4+2)
* Colonial Line - Shot: 4
* 2x British skirmishers - Commandet shot: 2x2
* Indian trackers - Commanded shot: 2
* Colonial skirmishers - Commanded shot: 2

So there you got two future project I just might reboot with these rules. Nice to already have lots of miniatures just waiting to get some paint, stuck away in a drawer...

FIW - British Colonials

French and Indian wars.

British Colonial troops and Militia.

Last weekend I played Empire total war, first time in ages it felt like. And that was all it took to inspire me to finish of some half painted French and Indian war miniatures.

At this scale miniatures are fast to paint, and that cant be bad.
Miniatures are from Blue Moon.

FIW - French Colonial Marines

French and Indian War

French colonial marines. (I think)

I needed some French linetroopes for my French and Indian war project and just finished these.
Miniatures from Blue Moon.

French and indian, Tomahawk and musket

I just got the latest Raid book from Osprey, Tomahawk and musket.

As I just got it I really cant give you more than my first impression about it.
I got it to give inspiration for scenarios to game and I think it will do that just perfect.
It seems to give some back story, some maps of battles or raids and you will get some uniform guides. It also seems to have more color pictures then the standard Osprey publications.

 

French and Indian War, more Indians

I got some more indians for my "French and Indian war"

Here in skirmish formation and with a chief.

 

 

French and Indian War, Frontier Militiamen

I got some more miniatures from my French and Indian war to show here.
Here I got some frontier militiamen. They could be used as either French or British I guess which make them useful in more games.

I intend to use them as skirmishes in my games. And I added a local leader to guide or order them around.

Miniatures from Blue Moon.

French and Indian War, Indians

Here we have two small warbands of Indians and a chief according to my basing standard of the Last arguments of Kings supplement to the Black Powder rules.

The pictures didn´t turn out the best but they give decent picture of my small Indian force atleast.

French and Indian war, British forces

The first post in my French and Indian War I wanted to show of my rather small force of British forces.

I intended to use the Black Powder rules. By switching all the ranges from inches to cm I found out that it worked rather nicely in 15mm.

The basing size I have used is one 4cm base of 4men is a tiny unit, 2 bases a small, 3 for a standard and so on. For skirmish formations I have based the miniatures 2 on a 4cm base and used double the amount of bases compare to a line formation, that means the same amount of miniature.

My tiny British force is now up to a officer, 2 standard size line formations, and small and a tiny skirmish formation.

 Handpainted flag.

French and Indian War, FIW

French and Indian War.

" The French and Indian War is the common American name for the war between Great Britain and France in North America from 1754 to 1763. In 1756, the war erupted into the world-wide conflict known as the Seven Years' War and thus came to be regarded as the North American theater of that war."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_and_Indian_War

Ever since I saw the movie "The Last of the Mohicans" I have been somewhat interested in the French and Indian war. I think its an exciting era that’s offer a lot for a tabletop game.

You get it all, fancy uniforms colorful in all its glory, sneaky ambushes, grand linear battles, sieges and skirmishes.

The thing that really got me into this, the drop that spilled over the cup, so to speak, was when I saw Dalaupprors really nice Indians from his American war of independents project.
Do check them out.

http://dalauppror.blogspot.com/2011/03/battle-at-fort-st-john-september-1775.html

http://dalauppror.blogspot.com/2011/01/woodland-indians.html

When saw those I knew I had to get me some Indians…

I eventually dicided to go at 15mm as I thought it would be easier and quicker to paint.
And I bought a couple of miniatures from Blue Moon if I remember correctly.
This has been a (another…) sideproject for some time now but I think its time for them to be seen here from now on.