Hollywood history it is. I would dearly like to see the accounts that give repeated examples of excessive drinking before battle - I cannot immediately recall any. The weapon composition of the scandinavian raiding party or in things like the "Great Army" is difficult to determine - our so...

Thank you. It doesn't sound unreasonable. I guess I'll be going for a norwegian-style army with dismounted skutilsveiner and hirdmenn...although I don't understand their HW designation. Too bad there are no gestir to field...or is there? :wink: Sad there is no crossbows or heavier bowmen. The 13th c...

The point of looking at FOG is to have a scene where I can play competively. Since the designers seem to answer similar questions in other fora I'll just bump this one. A "post-viking" scandinavian army: What sort of cavalry can it field? Kn or Cv? How many? How are the hirdmen represented...

Ok,the Khurasan guys are working on a late medieval swedish set, so that's out of the picture. Guess it will be pick&choose from other sources. Is it possible to confirm that there actually will be high medieval scandinavians in the Feudal Europe expansion? There will be a post Viking scandinav...

Ok,the Khurasan guys are working on a late medieval swedish set, so that's out of the picture. Guess it will be pick&choose from other sources.

Is it possible to confirm that there actually will be high medieval scandinavians in the Feudal Europe expansion?

The hand-held Chu-ko-no (as recorded during the Opium Wars) was also notoriously short-ranged, inaccurate, light-lathed and fired light bolts. Considering that it had the firing speed of regular hand bow (and required magazine reloading) it was perhaps not surprising that it was more useful as a lar...

Proper two-component epoxy (like Araldite) require a while to bond - like, 2 hours for initial bonding and up to 20 hours for the matrix to form. Once this is set, however, it is more likely you'll manage to pull the pewter apart than the epoxy. Some epoxy variants can be cured by UV light exposure ...

Rudy_Nelson wrote:Khurasan Miniatures is working on a nice range of 15mm Scandinavians for this era.

Interesting...do you know what they're basing them on, and what era? I saw mention of late 14th century, which is really late medieval.

It makes me wonder why we gave up these super weapons. IIRC Napoleonic rate of fire was 3 rounds per minute, WW2 bolt action rifle 5 rnds per minute and modern semi-automatic rifle 10 rounds per minute at deliberate rate of fire. You have to remember that the guys in the video are firing without ba...

I'll provide them with what I can, although a lot of it needs to be translated. Primarily, the problems with SMW1 is the artificial barrier at 1300, some really old interpretations of the available material, Nicolle's usual Ex Oriente Lux hobby horse, the old "lagged behind technologically"...

The rate of fire of the regular crossbow with a belt hook has been severely underestimated by armchair historians. On average, I think the rate of fire of the crossbow is at least half that of the bow, possibly more, heavily depending, of course, on the strength of the bowman/crossbowman. A rather s...

Very nice Trenchers, Bardolph. It is almost impossible to see the Dip.

MarkSieber, is the reflecting surface of your Indians a result of the Minvax or photography?

Hi there. I'm looking at FOG since I've always had a soft spot for historical wargames; sadly the actual play quality has often been disappointing, especially in competitive games, so I've mostly ended up playing something else instead. With 28mm I can't bring myself to using Dipping, but with 15mm ...