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Blogger Clive w said...

Will be very interested in the 30yw tweaks, would be nice to see the contrasting Swedes based
Clive

10 March 2022 at 11:02

Blogger augsburgeroberst said...

lovely work Simon. Your artillerists are just the part

10 March 2022 at 11:42

Blogger 3rd95th said...

Looking forward to seeing the TYW tweaks.

11 March 2022 at 08:20

Blogger Andrew Brentna said...

Lovely work, Simon. Abandon Daveโ€™s Imperial Battalia is simply A maze zing! ๐Ÿ™€๐Ÿ™€

12 March 2022 at 17:31

Blogger Friends Of General Haig said...

Loving looking artillery, Simon ๐Ÿ‘.

I think the formation and depth for TYW units is still a really interesting area to be explored. There was definitely some evolution during the war. For the Imperial armies you have the classic massive Tercio, to 10 deep, to 7 deep and then to the generic 6 deep of the later 1630s/40s. For the Swedes there is the experimentation of the 3/4 squadron formation, but essentially a move to 6 deep to exploit salvee firing. It is fascinating to speculate what depth provided - was it an advantage in melee, was it to allow a rolling fire for the muskets, etc. Then, as formations suffered casualties did they sacrifice depth to maintain files/width or was it just too chaotic after close range fire started.

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

13 March 2022 at 15:02

Blogger Happy Wanderer said...

Beautiful Simon!

Will these be a variant rules set of FK&P?

Happy Wanderer

14 March 2022 at 04:39

Blogger BigRedBat said...

Thanks all! Hopefully a variant of FK&P, that's the current plan.

FoGH, we've been doing some digging and have the Imperialists as deep as 10-11 ranks as late as Lutzen, which offers a nice visual contrast to the shallower Swedes in their squadrons.

14 March 2022 at 13:03

Blogger Friends Of General Haig said...

Great to know, Simon ๐Ÿ‘. Are you thinking of something deeper than 10 as well, perhaps based on the very deep, classic โ€˜Tercioโ€™ pictures so often represented in the battle art of the time? Os is the net effect of the same perhaps?

14 March 2022 at 13:25

Blogger Happy Wanderer said...

FYI

I canโ€™t see that last picture of the TYW stuffโ€ฆis that visible to others?

Simon, are you able to reload that picture for us please?

Cheers

HW

15 March 2022 at 00:35

Blogger BigRedBat said...

Hi HW, I can see it from here, how odd! I'll mail it to you later.

17 March 2022 at 13:54

Blogger Happy Wanderer said...

Weird.

I just see a black box ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ˜ตโ€๐Ÿ’ซ๐Ÿ˜ตโ€๐Ÿ’ซ

17 March 2022 at 20:50

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