Spanish and Portuguese Military History,
Wargaming, and other stuff
I asked my mate Roland why he likes Volley & Bayonet (V&B). The summary is:
If genius is defined as the ability to make the very complicated seem very simple then I am tempted to call V&B genius.
Roland then expanded on that. All the words are his. I’ve also dropped in some photos of Roland’s figures.
Andrew Coleby and I had a go at Big Base DBA. Andrew took Carthaginians and I took Polybian Roman. Andrew won – those pesky Gauls cut through my Legionnaires (again). Aside from being a good game it also proved the concept of Big Base DBA, i.e. big bases with lots of figures, big table, but using standard DBA.
Volley & Bayonet has big bases. Pretty much all troops are based on 3″ x 3″ bases; you can have any number of figures you want of any scale. I recently rebased my Peninsular War figures on big bases. I wanted to leave myself options so I effectively went for half size V&B bases. Each of my bases is 80mm wide by 40mm deep and . gets six cavalry or 12 infantry. Two of these, one behind the other, is a V&B brigade stand.
I’ve decided to go for big bases for the Peninsular War. Couple of reasons for this.