World's Edge Wargaming

Last week I finally got an opportunity to play By Fire and Sword, for which I painted an army last autumn. Or I actually didn't do the army for this game initially, but found out on the way that it would probably be my best bet of ever playing with my models. Thus my force is not too well made for the rules, as the basic game type is a skirmish where my pike blocks have no part in. I still had enough cavalry for the Swedish skirmish force so there was no problem, although I had to use some dragoons as stand in reiters. The game was as good as I thought. It took few rounds to get the grasp, but the basics are quite simple. There just is quite a lot of small details that need some time to get into. The game was quite tight. I was battling against cossacks, with an objective to conquer the small village in the center of the table. Cossacks got there first, as they knew the rules how to enter the buildings :) I tried to push them out, but never got more than two wounds in and the co...

I got my second big batch of infantry done for my 30 years war project. 8 Stands of musketeers. Again the models are from Totentanz. I based the musketeers 6 to a base instead of 8 for the pikemen, as I though they look nicer in bit more skirmishing formation. I put bit more effort to the bases as I filled them with milliput and added some stones made of cork and some twigs as fallen trees. It was well worth it. Here a full Pike and shotte unit. And here the new 48 musketeers. Next in my painting queue are 4 stands of reiters, 5 stands of dragoons with the dismounted models and 3 officers. After that I actually have enough models to play By fire and sword in a Task force size (actually a lot more infantry that I'm ever going to need). I'll try to arrange a game for the first week of December.