Glory to the great northern war.

Well, 5 years after I started I've collected all my GNW painted forces and put them on the table. 

No game, as I'm waiting for appropriate dice, and I need more generals. 

I put my flayed teddybear on top of my old not very nice terrain tiles. The tiles weren't properly taken care of, so the flocking has disappeared on most of them. But the road parts are still working and so are the rivers. I cut the fur where it was needed, Some places the terrain tiles were exchanged for styrofoam so I could put trees into them. the trees are woodland scenics. I drilled holes in the bottom and glued two cut-up wire spears into the holes. So I just shove them through the mat into the styrofoam. I think the rivers need to be dazzled up a little, so I'll pour some woodland scenics water on them at a later date. 

 With some cutting my 5x7 feet teddy mat, it covered my 4x8 table.

 The Swedish being Swedish has decided to charge 8 enemy squadrons, 4 battalions and a cannon with 10 squadrons of cavalry.

 The Saxons have hidden themself behind a river crossing. 3 battalions are supported by two squadrons of Goltz dragoons and a big 16pdr cannon.

 Grendiers and cannon ready for the Swedes. 

Danish will have the "honour" of dealing with most of the Swedish infantry. Unlike the Saxons with their river and the russians with their stonewall. The Danes only have some woods.

 Russians have backup of both Saxon and Danish cavalry. It's not easy standing up to 3000+ Swedish cavalry. 

 The Swedish look ready to Gå på!

 The Danish have put their Livgarden til fods and grenadier korpset in their front line. Hoping their best battalions will stand up to the Swedish onslaught. 

Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg looking confidant. 

 To take on the Saxons hiding behind their river. You got the elites. The Drabants, followed by the liv garden til hest, and the liv dragonerna as reserves. Liv dragonerne is by har the most powerful unit on the table. With 2 squadrons, being veteran, elite blade and Swedish they are worth 7 points in BLB3.

For reference, the danish 2nd Sjælandske is 50% larger and still only has 6 points.  7 points is also more than all 4 Russian battalions combined. But if the 3 guard cavalry units can't handle the Saxons, they might get support from the Björnborg battalion, which was placed there as a lynchpin between the right flank cavalry and the centre infantry. 

 The Standards blowing in the wind, drums and cronets blowing...

It's time to GÅ PÅ!

I plan on running this game, once my dice have come and I get like at least 10 generals done.(and Maybe a squadron of Russian dragoons)

A dark day in the life of this blog.

This is a very sad story, it started with a simple question, "does anybody make 15mm Alamo and Alamo soldiers"

I thought it was inocent enough. I had a plan and everything seem ok, but then tragedy struck, some evil evil person, that I'm sure eats babies and poke fun of short people said you can get Alamo soldiers AND the models in 10mm.

Well that's evil evil stuff, becasue we all know that 10mm is the devils scale, I get 6mm, you get big battles for less money, you can either do a normal battle on a small table, or a big battle on a normal table, and mega battle on a big table, I get that, I also get 15mm because atleast AB in Napoleonics are fantastic, they don't take much room but look great, then you got 28+ you can realy get the details, the faces are much more expressive even then AB 15mm, but takes alot of room, if you got the room and money, you can do 28mm in a good sized battle.

Thats leaves the evil 10mm, call me a racist or biggot, but they are evil, no redeeming aspect of them, they are evil, they are all probebly neo nazis or worse. They are almost as bad as 12mm.

But damn it to hell I just orderd sevral packs of them, aswell as the alamo model, I'm going to hell(well I was allready doing there long before this) but this means I'm going to that special hell that only Hitler, Stalin Mao and 10mm wargamers go.

So this is the plan

Don't kill my self over the guilt of beeing one of those 10mm wargamers
Paint the alamo, which I don't want to becasue I suck at painting buildings
Paint the figures, I have to look for some online sources for the mexicans,

My plan is to do it at 1:1, that means 1400 mexicans 250ish Texans
The mexicans will mostly be based in formations while some will be bases 1 and 1 or 2-3 figures on skirmish bases. the texans will also be based 1 and 1 or up to 3 to a base,
I don't know how much fotprint a 10mm figure has, I' guessing I can get atleast 12 to the same base as I get 8 15mm, mabye 14, I don't think I can get 16 as that would mean the fotprint would be half of 15mm, and that sounds to small, almost 6mm in size.
I found a small OOB for the mexican assualt party. one battalion is 470 soldiers, that a lot at 1:1 even at 14 to a base that would mean 100cm frontage, I don't know if mexicans did 2 or 3 deep lines. if they did 3 deep that would mean 67cm, that's still alot, but managnable.
The other battalions are under 300 and more managable.

This is ofcouse totaly guesswork Idon't know anything about 10mm, I don't know how much room I actualy got to work with, I don't know how big the alamo model is either.