Project Updates

1683 Vienna Project

I've been doing research for my 1683 project.

I picked up a couple of rulesets:

• Baroque is an Impetus variant. It has a few army lists, including Imperialists, Ottomans, and Poles.
• But I am most interested in Pikeman's Lament from Osprey.

It's really geared toward smaller actions, but I find the campaign system very intriguing. It follows the fortunes of your commander, as he leads a company through a series of actions, and (hopefully) rises in experience and rank. I'm thinking of creating an Austrian officer and running a campaign for him.

PL's force lists are geared for western European armies, but I found some online suggestions for eastern armies.

I currently have some 3mm figures that will do for cavalry. I placed an order with Magister Militum for some infantry and dragoon. I can do 1683 as a small side project.

Byzantine Project

I placed my orders for my Byzantine project. 

Miniatures will come from Magister Militum's 3mm line. Here is my shopping list:

Byzantines:

• Heavy/Medium Infantry will represent the skutatoi
• Skirmishing Archers will be light infantry
• Parthian Style Cataphracts will do double duty as Byzantine Cataphracts. At this scale, I can't really tell the difference
• Likewise, Parthian Style Horse Archers will do double duty as Hunnic allies

Sassanian Persians:

• Parthian Style Cataphracts and Parthian Style Horse Archers for the cavalry
• Persian Sparabara will be levies
• Skirmishing Archers as light infantry
• and Seleucid Elephants

I also ordered some terrain; the Roman Buildings from PicoArmor.

Operation Last Train

I wanted to order PicoArmor's Desert Buildings for my Operation Last Train sci-fi project. Alas, they were out of stock. I'll keep an eye out for them.