Author: parallels

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The great battle of Hochkirch

This week we had a very enjoyable game, my good friends Arturo, Diego, Leonardo, Riccardo and I. We played a bathtubbed version of this iconic Seven Years War battle, a fighting retreat which the...

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Bathtubbing Hochkirch

The table for playing the battle is ready. Still, looking at the photos and the table layout, I think something needs to be adjusted. The series of villages that were present on the battlefield...

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Hochkirk

Scenario taken from Wargames Illustrated 126, 2006. Rescaled 6 to 1. Just to remember, each Honours of War unit is a battalion (600 men), 3-4 squadrons (400 men) and a battery (4 guns). Austrians...

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First Lansquenets units

Just finished flocking my first two landsknecht/lansquenet units. The figures used are 25mm Minifigs Series S, a small 25mm size series from the seventies. These figures will be sitting along with large 25mm Hinchliffe,...

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British troops feathers

I am trying to find information about British infantry slouch hats feather colours. I have found from the text below that colours would be specific to each unit, but I would like to characterise...

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Aprile 2025

Sono a buon punto i miei fanti ungheresi della guerra di Successione Austriaca. Foto a breve. Ho poi appena imbasettato due unita’ di Lanzichenecchi Minifigs Serie S, completa di picchieri, archibugieri e alabardieri. Foto...

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Neil Thomas revival with a test game

I made a quick test game using the Neil Thomas Ancient Wargame rules. Mario made me discover these rules when he gave me the Neil Thomas book as a present, it had been just...

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Getting ready for late antiquity battles

Here some photos of my collection of 6mm ancients. All these figures were painted by my late friend Francesco. They are very detailed but needed some effort to have them ready again for the...

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