No Summer Purchases - Day 27 - 27.6.19 and a game of To The Strongest

So last Tuesday night Dave came over for a Hundred Years War game using "To The Strongest". It was a great game using the "time is of the essence scenario" where the French lose a token at the beginning of every move after the first.

I was the English and Dave was the French, with the English winning a game that was plagued by alternating bouts of senility on either side of the table.

We have decided that game will never be spoken of again.

Next up is probably the Vimiero Hill scenario from the GDB "Wellington's Victories" book using General D'Armee Rules. I've got the table set up and just need to base 4 French limbers for it.

I've carried on painting odds and sods for my Napoleonic and TYW set ups - still haven't bought anything.

No Summer Purchases - Day 20 - 20.6.19 and Innumeracy

So I'm cracking on doing bits and bobs relating to my TYW set up and decide to set out my "finished" HYW armies for a bit of a break. There are six archer units on my English list so I set them out:

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Where's the sixth?

Still stuck on it's impetus base with the extra figures in the spares box is where it is!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On YouTube I often see videos mentioning that no matter how many times you calculate an order, when it comes through the letter box you always find you've cocked something up and need to order extra bits, so I suppose this is just an extension of that particular war gaming trait.

It also provides proof positive that being crap with numbers is no bar to obtaining a professional accountancy qualification.

On a more positive note - twenty (I think) days and I still haven't bought anything.

No Summer Purchases - Day 18 - 18.6.19

1. Ballasted the bases of the french spearmen and some blank spacers for the TYW movement trays.
2. Stuck some dice frames onto spacers for TYW movement trays.

No Summer Purchases - Day 17 - 17.6.19

French spearmen varnished and ready to go on bases. This is the last unit for my Hundred Years War set up, so when the bases are done I'll take some pictures of both armies and post them (if I can be bothered, which I probably can't).

No Summer Purchases - Day 16 - 16.6.19 and Split Rail Fences

I've done nothing hobby-wise for a couple of days but on a positive note I still haven't bought anything!

I'm about to start a bit more painting now, but this morning I watched these two videos:

How to make a split rail fence

Evolution of log fences

I thought they were really interesting and will inform how I go forward with my War of 1812 terrain.

The point at the end of the first video about the absurdness of the Union army's policy of only allowing troops to remove the top rail from a fence for firewood was quite amusing.

No Summer Purchases - Day 13 - 13.6.19

Drybrushed the base of Spartan hoplites and 3 bases of 6th division skirmishers.

No Summer Purchases - Day 12 - 12.6.19

1. Started the metallics on the French spearmen.
2. Bailando!

No Summer Purchases - Day 11 - 11.6.19

1. Agrax Earthshade wash on French spearmen.
2. Vallejo European dust wash on 6th Division skirmisher bases.

No Summer Purchases - Day 10 - 10.6.19

A bit more work on the French spearmen.

No Summer Purchases - Day 9 - 9.6.19

Jackets and brigandines painted on French spearmen.

No Summer Purchases - Day 8 - 8.6.19

1. Ballasted the Spartan hoplites base.
2. A bit of painting on the French spearmen.

And that's probably it for the day. The weather is absolutely miserable and I can't be bothered to do anything.

No Summer Purchases - Day 7 - 7.6.19

1. 12 Spartans glued to base
2. Ballasted 7 bases of 6th division skirmishers.
3. Bailando!

No Summer Purchases - Day 6 - 6.6.19

1. Removed another 3 bases of 6th division skirmishers from their bases.
2. Put the all the skirmishers for the 6th division on 7 new bases.
3. Finished painting the 12 Spartan hoplites - Shield edges, spear tips and went over the spear shafts: now ready for varnishing.
4. Started work on the French spearmen.
5. Varnished the Spartan hoplites.

No Summer Purchases - Day 5 - 5.6.19

1. Stuck the shields on the 12 Spartan hoplites.
2. Primed the remaining 3 French spearmen.
3. Removed a brigade skirmish screen from their bases from my peninsular 6th division in order to rebase them.
4. Bailando!

No Summer Purchases - Day 4 - 4.6.19

1. Painted the inside of the 12 Spartan shields.
2. Dry brushed the 5 bases of the 5th division skirmishers.
3. Primed 12 of 15 spearmen last unit for my French HYW army.

Not much, but something!

No Summer Purchases - Day 3 - 3.6.19

1. Varnished the 12 Spartan shields I put the transfers on yesterday.
2. Stuck pikes on 5 old QRF TYW pikeman figures to be used as morale failure markers for TODR. Note: These are much smaller than the QRF ECW figures which are much more compatible with Minifigs and Essex
3. Put a wash of Vallejo "European Dust" on the 5th Division skirmish bases.

No Summer Purchases - Day 2 - 2.6.19

1. Ballasted the 9 bases of musketeers I put together yesterday
2. Ballasted the 2 elements of Brunswick Oels Jaegers I varnished yesterday.
3. Ballasted 6 bases of line infantry for my Peninsular 5th Division.
4. Put transfers on shields for 12 Spartan hoplites.
5. Made 4 new flags for the TYW Protestant Union army.
6. Bailando!

No Summer Purchases - Day 1 - 1.6.19

1. Varnished 2 skirmish bases of Brunswick Oels Jaegers for my Peninsular 5th Division - General D'Armee. These were previously on bases of 2s for "General de Brigade", but I'm using  3 figures  on 45mm x 20mm bases for GDA. All my close order infantry are based 3 figures to a 30mm x 20mm base.
2. Ballasted 8 bases of pike and shot for "For King and Parliament" and "Twilight of Divine Right". These were spare painted figures from the bits box. Now that I am using movement trays for this period I am trying to make the basing as flexible as possible to create 2 different sizes of  various formations in ratios of 2:1, 3:2 and 1:1.
3. While there was some PVA left in the pot I ballasted 2 bases of line infantry for the 5th division.
4. Found another 27 random painted musketeers in the spares box so stuck another 3 bases together. These were painted years ago and not up to the way I paint now but stuff it. They are 15mm and they will be lost in the large formations on the table. The whole idea is to get stuff on the table.

At the moment I am not applying tufts or flock to the bases of any figures. They will be playable with just the ballast on them. I'll review the foliage and tart the bases up later on.