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I used standard US paras for mine, but used the Mohican haircuts to make them different, so I can identify them on the tabletop.

Squeezing artillery on to bases that are too small should be considered ‘weaselly’ and something akin to bowlers tampering with the ball in cricket – not done by gentlemen / gentlewomen. 😀

BP2 specifies that an artillery battery should be the same width as a small infantry unit.

For weight reasons Napoleonic land based field guns had been made Brom bronze.   Some older iron guns got used , in, 1812 a few old iron field guns got used in Prussia  with rear units.    Fortress guns are often iron, the weight being not important. In general an iron gun of same calibre was cheaper but heavier.

Navy guns are mostly iron too, n…[Read more]

I use 60mm wide bases.

Correct myself, width not depth.

Bronze for the most part.

I’m with you on avoiding command levels lower than 7 but those with such low command levels need to get off their backsides and move closer to the troops they are giving orders to!

I wouldnt use a staff rating of lower than 7 outside of the personality traits table because 7 is the average roll of 2D6.  Which when you start using rules like unreliable or units over 12″ from commander you then end up not having any control over the unit and it does nothing more often than not.  So whilst it may be historically accurate game w…[Read more]

Hi Rudedog – that shade looks pretty good to me. It looks just like the front cover of the Osprey Men-at-Arms on Gustav’s Infantry which features the Yellow Brigade.

I have plans for this regiment in the future. I’d love to hear your recipe?

Hi Craig,

I have just found this thread after wondering why I couldn’t post in Pike and Shotte 🙂

I have posted with a link and some pics. Sorry I posted it twice as I thought I had done something wrong the first time. I guess both are in the spam folder?

What is the suggested way to post pics in the forum now, or would you prefer posts without them?

As I said before, look at the section on Commanders in the BP2 rulebook. There is a small table there that you can roll against that gives your Commanders traits. These may be positive or negative and each has an instruction on how he will act.