A buddy of mine talked me into play testing a game using Twilight of Divine Right wargame rules. I was not too thrilled, as it sounded like it was going to be a ECW game using some rules that I once saw played at a con that went badly. However, better to try a game than stay home, so I played.
It turned out that we ended up playing a Turkish War scenario, so that intrigued me a bit more. Looking more closely at the rules and getting the feeling of them in person actually tweeted me interest. I asked my buddy if I could take them home and ready through them and he agreed! So, I read through them that evening. I figured we did a few things wrong, but nothing too serious. Thinking about them, I rather liked them and want to try another game (I will write a separate review at some point).
With that in mind, I started to go through my old collection to pull out my old armies for 17th century Turkish Wars (I had almost forgot that I even had them). Looking them through, they were all based for a custom set of rules that I played almost thirty years ago.. Well, that gaming group is long gone (along with the rules) is long gone, so that basing did not make much sense. So, I went the the Divine right rules and figured out what type of basing I would need for my troops.
Once I figured out all the numbers and base sizes, I decided I wanted to mount these the same way as my Nineteenth century armies. That meant an order to Shogun Miniatures was in order for some of their magnetic bases. I put my order in and a week later I had the bases.
Once the bases arrived, I sprayed them all with some dark brown Krylon camo paint. I then got my Xacto out and started popping figures off their old metal bases. Slowly but surely, I had little piles of dudes ready for basing. With some tacky glue in hand, I glued all the recently freed models to their new bases.
I stated with my old Mikes Models Imperials (they were sold under Essex when I got them). This game me a few units of pike and musket troops, some musketeers, mounted dragoons, cuirassiers, light horse and artillery.
Once the glue dryed, I pulled out some Geo Hex green and painted the bases, adding flock to the wet paint as I went. I then hit the dried figures with some Testors Dull Coat to lock in the flick and seal the figures. Looking a little closer, I noted that there were some dings, so I added some color to touch that up and finished off with some GW gloss black wash over the armor to add back the shine. With that, this part of the army was done. Next was the Essex next generation models…
- Manteuffel