Army Building

johngl · Post by **johngl** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 1:00 pm

In the short time since I became interested in FoGR, I've accumulated the following armies:

ECW Royalist - rebased, and reinforced by new painting
ECW Parliamentarian - rebased
New Model Army - rebased
Scots Covenanter - rebased, and reinforced by new painting
Most of the ECW figures were originally based for George Gush rules, then rebased for DBR, then rebased again for Regiment of Foote (30mm frontage), and now rebased yet again for FoGR!

TYW Catholic - army bought complete
TYW Protestant - reflagged ECW foot, rebased horse. Most of my ECW/TYW foot have interchangeable flags.

Swiss - DBM army
Italian Wars French - DBM army
Early/Later Henrician English - some DBM figures, some new purchases, some new painting
Maximilian Imperial/German States - some DBM figures, many new purchases

Early Russian - DBM army plus 24 bases of newly-painted streltsy

Plus four camps.

All the 16th century pikemen are on 15mm deep bases, so that I can still use them for DBM. Thanks to the FoGR authors for allowing this flexibility.

All I have to do now is to use them. I've played about 10 games, but unfortunately most FoGR 15mm competitions seem to clash with DBM ones, and DBM remains my primary rules set. I'll have to organise a campaign...

hazelbark · Post by **hazelbark** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 4:03 pm

Wow. In for a penny in for a pound.

I am flagging all my renaissance types now. and plan to have multiple generals with appropriate flags so they can change the army. Don't have any ECW types. My 16ht and 17th century armies are very hapsburg catholic centric, plus of course russians, Ottomans and various balkan types.

hood_mick · Post by **hood_mick** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 4:08 pm

Yep I'm doing different command stands for the battlegroups and sets of generals. To avoid the forty boxes of Ancients syndrome happening again.

johngl · Post by **johngl** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 4:35 pm

Dan, you must be about the only veteran Renaissance player without "strip Minifigs" ECW armies!

nickdives · Post by **nickdives** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 5:07 pm

MMM,

28mm
Poles
Muscovites
Swedes
Imperialists/Protestants (Generals are fairly Generic)
Parliamentarians

Italian Wars French (Bare metal so far)
Swiss (Some old Essex done)

Coventeer (Unpainted)

15mm

Swedes
Imperialist (Cavalry to paint)
Danes
Polish
Cossacks
Muscovites
1683 Austrians

All of the 15mm are based for FOG, and the unpainted 28mm will be based for FOG. The other 28mm are based on square bases but have been used in FOG Games

johngl · Post by **johngl** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 8:45 pm

Ah, I haven't any 25mm FoGR armies (lots of Ancients ones, but none convertible). That's a lack I must remedy.

johngl · Post by **johngl** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 12:13 am

I've succumbed... just sent an order for Warlord's grand army deal - Parliamentarians. Should take me quite some time to assemble and paint.

hazelbark · Post by **hazelbark** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 8:30 pm

johngl wrote:Dan, you must be about the only veteran Renaissance player without "strip Minifigs" ECW armies!

I am relatively late to renaissance. 12-15 years only.

I was a minifig 25mm nappie. Still have 1000s.
Never liked the strips and when i came to ancients essex dominated then.

My renassiance now are essex, testudo, venexia, khurusan.

Oh and expanding into grumpy for the colonial types with elephants.