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BLOG BACKGROUND AND WARGAME RULES
I have set up this blog for my wargaming interests in the Muscovite-Tartar Wars, Reconquista Wars, the Barbary Coast Pirates, and the early campaigns of the Ottoman Turks and Saracens. Some lesser known crusades will also be covered. Miniatures are mainly 28mm with a growing collection in 54mm. If my photographs serve to encourage others to complete their collections I shall be pleased. I will also be mentioning other sites with interesting collections on the above. Do join the 'Friends' if you like what you see.

I prefer to use my own rules which are kept simple and involve eight-sided dice. These allow for fast results with various types of weaponry. Morale dominates my games.


Monday 16 March 2015

TARTAR LIGHT HORSE, SERVING WITH THE OTTOMANS

Pleased to report that I have been quite busy over the weekend. At a quick count I have filed, occasionally drilled, and undercoated over 250 castings. There is still another fifty or so needing this work but its a welcome sight to see so many figures primed and ready. Included among these are eighteen Tartar horse archers, as Robbie Rodiss of 'Wargaming the Borgias Blogspot' has rightly pointed out, the Ottomans need 'large amounts of unpaid marauding light cavalry'. He has plans to increase his collection, I'm doing the same. I already have a handful of Akinji, but I am planning to increase them to a more appropriate number too. I also picked up a bag of Black Tree Arab crossbowmen(20) for service with my Granadines. Must say they look very good and came with hardly a cast line, and no flash whatsoever. MGB
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  1. Independentwargamesgroup17 March 2015 at 16:16

    Its going to be quite an army when you complete it.
    Thanks Robbie.

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    1. MGB17 March 2015 at 19:21

      To be honest, Robbie, most of those I have just prepared are Russians from 1400 to 1700. They will be taking on the Tartars and Ottomans. For wargame purposes, many of the late medieval will also stand in for Balkan states, at least the Orthodox peoples. Presently, my painted Ottomans muster 24 Suvarileri and 52 various Sipahi. My Akinji and mounted Ghazi will be a mixture of TAG, Hinchliffe and Essex. I want to mix them to capture their irregular nature. MGB

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