http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/MindenRose/ Minden Rose SYW Rules Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:57:41 GMT fastolfrus http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/MindenRose/message/108 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/MindenRose/message/108 Peter Pig have just started a new range of 15mm figures for AWI. There are currently ony a few packs, the range is aimed at completion in 2010. Although Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:15:09 GMT Craig Dreghorn http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/MindenRose/message/107 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/MindenRose/message/107 Hi Keith We find them no problem a lot of the guys in the club have them now they don't move about much, they never wear out and if you wish you can always peg Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:38:55 GMT Keith Flint http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/MindenRose/message/106 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/MindenRose/message/106 Thanks for posting Craig: enjoyed those pics very much. Were those Games Workshop battle mats you playing on? How do you find them? Cheers, Keith. Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:30:12 GMT craigdreghorn http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/MindenRose/message/105 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/MindenRose/message/105 Hi all Just uploaded a load of pics from a large game I put on at our club(Maidstone wargames society) recently. The game was fought on a 10 x 4 board and Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:24:25 GMT Jeff Hudelson http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/MindenRose/message/104 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/MindenRose/message/104 Gentlemen, I use 28mm figures and currently my normal line unit is 24 figures (6 stands of 4); and cavalry 12 figures (4 stands of 3). -- Jeff Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:19:03 GMT Barry Lee http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/MindenRose/message/103 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/MindenRose/message/103 Hi Jeff, welcome to the forum. All good suggestions, people just love to adapt things. My objective was always simplicity, and with that, you make tough Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:14:35 GMT Barry Lee http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/MindenRose/message/102 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/MindenRose/message/102 Hi there The only thing I would add to Keiths comments is (1) if both opposing armies conform to your basing there really is little difference and (2) as you Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:40:46 GMT Keith Flint http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/MindenRose/message/101 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/MindenRose/message/101 Hi Jeff, From the rules, your infantry are based exactly as recommended. The base sizes for cavalry recommended by Barry are 50mm wide for 2 cavalry figures, Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:42:07 GMT Jeff Hudelson http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/MindenRose/message/100 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/MindenRose/message/100 Barry, In reading the back posts (and no, I'm not up to the present yet) I noticed a question about Orders. Apparently MR has three orders -- Attack, Hold and Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:45:24 GMT Jeff Hudelson http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/MindenRose/message/99 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/MindenRose/message/99 Greetings, My first post . . . and I don't have the rules . . . although I'm looking into them. How critical is the basing that I see pictured on the net? Wed, 20 May 2009 21:28:17 GMT Keith Flint http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/MindenRose/message/98 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/MindenRose/message/98 Interesting point. Would you say that brigade commanders were better behaved (or more disciplined) in Napoleonic times than the SYW? I suppose my reading Tue, 19 May 2009 21:28:44 GMT Jeremy Sutcliffe http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/MindenRose/message/97 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/MindenRose/message/97 I think my usual playing partner and I are both committed to Shako for Napoleonics where there is the idea of giving a brigade commander a distinct Sun, 17 May 2009 20:38:26 GMT Keith Flint http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/MindenRose/message/96 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/MindenRose/message/96 Hi Jeremy. Well done for trying to keep posts on this group going single handed! This is definitely an interesting house rule. However, for myself, I will Thu, 14 May 2009 16:14:01 GMT Jeremy Sutcliffe http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/MindenRose/message/95 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/MindenRose/message/95 As a "house rule" we adopted a convention for initial orders of an "advance to a location and hold" by puttinga green marker over a yellow one. When the Thu, 14 May 2009 16:10:32 GMT Jeremy Sutcliffe http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/MindenRose/message/94 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/MindenRose/message/94 I finally gave uptrying to find ways of representinmg my 3 stand notional units as 4 stand units with marrkers and roster sheets and the like and just pl;ayed