Posts made by Gary Hughs

• Where are the gaps in this "busy" space??

  Napoleon in Egypt might be an option for plastic, perhaps more for the Mamelukes than the French, the French had smaller forces so not too bad fielding them in metal (I like the Dixon range) but ho...

  posted in Napoleon's Wars: From Revolution to Abdication 1796-1815

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  Gary Hughs
  1/18/22, 5:48 PM
• Next for the range?

  Tartars might be an option, basic hairy horse archers that would be usable for 1500-1800, but with a few optional bits (heads/hats) might be useful earlier. Also would like to see Ottoman Turks. P...

  posted in Renaissance: Gunpowder, Mercenaries & Kings

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  Gary Hughs
  1/18/22, 5:39 PM
• Well, well, well…horse sizes.

  @JTam Oddly enough, when I started wargaming, Minifigs produced 2 sizes of horse for Napoleonics, for light cavalry or heavy cavalry, the heavies were noticeably bigger and the lights tended to be...

  posted in General Chatter

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  Gary Hughs
  1/18/22, 5:22 PM
• Well, well, well…horse sizes.

  Larger horse breeds are generally more recent. An easy way to look at early horse breeds isn't by looking at armour (relatively few horses were armoured) but look at horseshoes. Large horses genera...

  posted in General Chatter

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  Gary Hughs
  1/18/22, 5:19 PM
• Flash Poll: Vote for a New Period!

  voted War of the Spanish Succession, quite a busy period but no decent plastic figures at present - the ones that Warlord have are just reboxed figures from the old Wargames Factory range, and alth...

  posted in General Chatter

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  Gary Hughs
  1/18/22, 5:10 PM
• 15th Century Eastern Romans

  not fussed by the Byzantines, but Ottoman Turks would be so useful

  posted in Renaissance: Gunpowder, Mercenaries & Kings

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  Gary Hughs
  1/14/22, 3:36 PM