Warlord Games Epic Battles Waterloo Napoleonic Project Vlog 9

Its time for project vlog no.9, I've mostly painting other peoples Epic armies this summer, but I've still be slowly plugging away. In this update I continue 3d printing in Epic Scale, this time Peninsular British (with a test paint), I've been splitting strips (quick tutotial in the video), and planning my project further with the Hundred Days Campaign book.
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[@Richard-jp7wz]

Looks great! Thanks for the excellent video.

[@MiniatureRealms]

Thank you 🙂

[@CTID-9320]

Looks great lined up together. 👍

[@MiniatureRealms]

Thank you 🙂

[@turfdorbrittlebeard1674]

It looks and plays so much better when you split them!!

[@MiniatureRealms]

I do like the look the larger number of models give, but I can live with what I’ve ended up doing for sure, and yes it will definitely play better for sure.

[@Andrew-se4tg]

Figures look great!👍

[@MiniatureRealms]

Thank you Andrew 🙂

[@davidwasilewski]

I’d either ‘go big’ and have one stand per company (relegating it to a large skirmish game) e.g. 10 small bases of 10 in two ranks per battalion (100 figure units), OR I’d go for 4 small bases (40 figure units) to reduce the unit footprint so you can play larger scale games but still represent the formations. I suppose what you’ve chosen does make sense for black powder rules though. You should do a showcase with close ups of everything you’ve painted for Napoleonics so far!

[@MiniatureRealms]

I like the idea of trying a battalion with each company represented for a different game one day, not sure what rules would be best for that though. I’ll definitely do some showcases at some point, want to get some more of my own armies painted yet.

[@leont66wargaming31]

Good update buddy

[@MiniatureRealms]

Cheers mate

[@leonleese4919]

At Waterloo, a British and KGL brigades formed the light companies into a brigade light screen commanded by a major. To give extra skirmishers, the Duke added a company of rifles to the skirmish screen, making it almost battalion size. Some times 3 rifle companies were added depending where they were deployed and what the brigade orders were.

[@MiniatureRealms]

Thank you Leon, always good insight.

[@paulparker5456]

Another great video Stuart. 👍

[@MiniatureRealms]

Thank you Paul

[@ratelmike8825]

Army looks fantastic Stuart. Was at the Warlord Open Day. Austrians and Russians are certainly in the works. Not entirely sure if they will be resin or plastic. My money is on plastic. Peninsular British is certainly on the cards. Current French can do the whole war so certainly not going to be specific French Peninsular. I dented the wallet on the French imperial Guard bundle. They look marvelous just like the commanders.

[@MiniatureRealms]

Ah fantastic thank you for this, I was gutted when a family break coincided with this weekend, I was planning on making it this year. I had a feeling that things had gone well enough that the decision to expand Epic Napoleonics would almost be made for them, I’m super excited about all of those. I now wonder about if they will ‘jump the queue’ and come out before they do the Epic Pike & Shotte and Ancients stuff they’re planning? I very much want to do those, but a break in the annual new period release wouldn’t be a problem for me while I catch up 😅😂

[@adamcox8857]

Any news on whether Dutch, Belgian, Hanoverian, Brunswick troops will be available?

[@MiniatureRealms]

I know this question is for @RatelMike, but I’ve not heard anything from those who have talked about it. I’d guess it’s a no for now, and they’d rather invest in adding new major nations, rather than ones they’ve said up until could be covered by painting conversions of British and French. That is just a guess at their intentions, could be way off.

[@ratelmike8825]

@@MiniatureRealms I attended the seminar at the open day. John Stallard confirmed Austrians and Russians. I would say Peninsular Brits will become a reality but not right now.

[@MiniatureRealms]

Was there any hints on if these are all long term plans (including the other Epic periods on that), or something maybe on the way sooner - like the late Nov/early Dec announcement for the last two years?

[@ThatNathan]

I’m so far behind on KZbin content but I’m loving your progress on this game

[@MiniatureRealms]

Cheers dude, I’ve got so much more to do, and keep doing other projects that slow it further 😅

[@stephenritchie9581]

Wow, army looks amazing Stuart. Need to get my commanders and grenadier cavalry finished. Been drawn into my flames of war d-day landings project which I will be posting a video this weekend so keep tuned 😜. Pity most of these figures aren’t for u to keep but you have done a fantastic job and channel is awesome. Cheers. Stevie

[@MiniatureRealms]

Thank you mate, I’ll look forward to catching your video. I’m away for the weekend and have. terrible reception/wifi, so I’ll catch it on Monday if it can’t before.

[@MuseBlinkGreenDay]

Great video!

[@MiniatureRealms]

Cheers Michael

[@kelvinhawkins9535]

I really love these Napoleonic Vlogs. It's really cool to compare to the similar passions of others. 15:36 - a great job here. I have tried twice to split the strips to 5 men... I failed miserably but you did a great job. I'm definitely with you though - I love the 10man strip. 20:06 - d'Erlon vs Picton is my similar focus. For me, my favourite part of the battle - it could have gone either way. Your army at the end looks amazing . It is such great work but will we ever be blessed with a video of it in action? 😃 Top Vlog!

[@MiniatureRealms]

Thank you Kelvin 😊 The plan is to start battle reports for multiple systems this autumn/winter as I get enough bits painted. Sadly that army isn’t mine it’s a clients I painted this summer.

[@sagebrother]

Lots of good content and thanks for continuing to share these with us. Did you do a video on your 3D printing experiences and journey? If not would be great to have one to watch.

[@MiniatureRealms]

Thank you. I will definitely do a 3d printing video once I’ve learnt a little, next step is to try out some more flexible resin to help prevent breakages on small parts.

[@rp-h-e9779]

Finally got round to watching this all. Great tutorial addition, especially for newer gamers. I will certainly be looking forward to seeing you see out a game. Have seen the SoN La Haye St free download?

[@MiniatureRealms]

Thank you. I saw that but haven’t had a chance to download it and have a read yet.

[@leonleese4919]

It makes a battle more interesting when you know the commanders names. Research yes but after you’ve painted a brigade of infantry and the officers, you just have to know there names. Great channel very informative. I’ve even bought an airbrush with a compressor. So I’m committed.😡

[@MiniatureRealms]

Thank you, let me know how you get on with the airbrush.

[@leonleese4919]

I have a list of things to do before I’m allowed to play with my “toys” apparently cornice on the bedroom walls will help me to sleep better. Which is probably true as it is mentioned every time the light goes on.. This of course can only get worse. So if I do the one command I’ll be left in peace. I hope to paint soldiers instead of painting walls and ceilings. Besides it will only take 5 minutes🙁

[@MiniatureRealms]

I’ve been busy painting walls in my house this week in preparation for some new carpet and flooring being fitted soon, not my idea of fun either 😂

[@TheHunch8ack]

Hi Stuart. Regarding the resin, I use Phrozen water washable (as IPA washables are a lot of hassle and will kill my hands, although they're often far more resilient), which I've found to be more forgiving than Elegoo, for example. I found that I was over-curing in the early days. If you err on the side of under - so it's only *just* cured - then it'll cure a bit when sitting round waiting for painting (or cure lot in my case, given that I obviously never paint anything . . . ). I do about a minute for 10-15mm models, which a bit of hand-held UV light work to get into the underside and so on afterwards, so probably about 90-120 seconds in all. Obviously that depends on the power of your UV curing light. Hope this helps and thanks, as ever, for the vids. PS: If you do want to go IPA washable one of the most tabletop-resilient is (rather pricey) TGM-7, although there are lots of ABS-like resins around (and also a lot of homebrew mixtures of resins - just have a look online and KZbin for the tsunami of opinions).

[@MiniatureRealms]

Thank you, I’ll grab some of that resin to try. I’ve been using water washable myself, but the Elegoo stuff, so will be interesting to see how they compare. I’ve been over curing as well I think, so I’ll have to have a play around.

[@TheHunch8ack]

@@MiniatureRealms Good luck, mate. My printer's crocked at the moment (and I can't afford the heating for the garage once it gets chilly anyway), but I've been at it for a couple of years now so if you want to know anything just ask. I'm no expert, but I have made a loooooooot of mistakes, so . . . 😆

[@MiniatureRealms]

Thank you, I may just do that. I want to find the time to return to it and tighten up the settings to up the print quality a little.

[@liamfishwick2943]

Amazing paintjobs. The clients army looks great. I am a sub but I'm mostly here for the potential of Lord of the Rings content...no pressure😅

[@MiniatureRealms]

Thank you 😊 …and no worries, there will be more Lotr content on the way, it’s on the list (just a few more to come out first).

[@Edward-Plantagenet]

Great video as ever, even pondering your approach myself now, the other rules we use may still force the fully split stands though. That said I'd sooner split just one stand in 3 rather than all of them. What are you planning to do with artillery and cavalry? Keep the same unit sizes?

[@MiniatureRealms]

Thank you. I’ll likely be flexible with the cavalry, but I’d imagine I’ll be running 1, 2 & 3 stands more than 2, 3, & 4 stands on a 6x4. Not really decided with Artillery, but likely flexibility from game to game, especially with using commander minis with dice squares on bases to show size if needed.

[@dan97526]

Stuart, I've found that a half-and-half mix of Elegoo Standard Grey and Elegoo ABS-Like has nice detail and enough flexibility to not break under normal use.

[@MiniatureRealms]

Thank you that’s super helpful, I’m so new to printing that I’d never even considered mixing resins.

[@Bodkin_Ye_Pointy]

You know, I have missed out on a number of these videos because of the amount of waffle you have at the beginning of them. I must say that I actually pushed through the waffle on this video and when you get to the meat of the subject it is quite informative. Even more so since I acquired a French and British starter set. I myself was wondering about the use of skirmishers, particularly for the British because there do not seem to be any in a deployed formation in the kit. However I like your presentation of a halved sprue as it fits the bill quite nicely. I wonder at the lack of skirmishers in the British army as they were a key tactic of Wellington's to frustrate their counter parts in the French army. Maybe Warlord wanted to give the French a fighting chance. 😉 One other thing, La Hey Saint finally fell because the unfortunates within ran out of ammunition. They were a victim of the Quartermaster's prioritisation as the powder and ball were stuck in a wagon on the road from Brussels.

[@MiniatureRealms]

Yes they were clearly let down on resupply, I’ve read some fantastic accounts that describe the action in great detail, one of my favourite parts of the battle for sure. The lack of light troops for the British is an odd one, I’d have added them to the with frame with the British Infantry, had skirmishing troops also with the Highland troops, and had a separate frame for both line and skirmishing Rifles. I understand why Warlord did it though, tooling to set up a plastic frame is expensive. I’ve repainted some extra skirmishing rifles and added some 3d printed bits to provide enough skirmishing troops for the Brits. Think I’ve talked about it before but it may have been lost in vlogs where you didn’t make it past the waffle. A quick note (or waffle) on the waffle. I’m aware of it, but it won’t be going anywhere with my project vlogs, they’re designed to be open chat about my hobby progress, they don’t normally have mini tutorials in them. I never thought they’d be watched by many, just a place for me to record my progress, but oddly they seem to get a lot of views. My tutorials are much more heavily edited and less waffle filled, my reviews somewhere in between 🙂

[@boardgametuning]

Great content and a lot of informations and ideas! I like the way you base you infantry and skirmisher because of more flexibility. Would be great to know how you handle it with your cavalery. I´m not sure whats the best way. also 30x20 bases with 2 horses or all 5 on 60x20? Or bases with more depth like 30 than 20? I´ve started painting the french starter and there is a lot of infantry to go, but I like to think about storage and the complete project, therefore any hint about the bases for cavalery is welcome! 🙂

[@MiniatureRealms]

Thank you 😊 I’ve been basing my Heavily Cavalry 5 to a base on a 60x30mm base - 5mm deeper as they tend to hang off the front and back of the 20mm deep ones provided - I’m using plastic ones from Renedra. I’m thinking about only have 4 to a base for light cavalry(on the same size base), but undecided as yet.

[@boardgametuning]

@@MiniatureRealms wow, that feedback was fast! :-), I will try this with 60x30 and 5 or 4! Buying bases in different sizes is not my problem, because my 3d printer print them in any size i need. :-D

[@miketike3246]

Looks amazing Stu! I have to get back into a regular painting regimen again to get my Napoleonics done. I had a question. I've been looking for a decent scenic backdrop like the one you have there. Was wondering where you got it. Also, do you have to mount them to cardboard, or do they already come stiffened? All the searches I did for backdrops turned up mostly model railroad ones. But many of those have something in them that gives them away as being modern, like a modern building or something...

[@MiniatureRealms]

Thank you Mike. Backdrop wise I’ve only really found them from railway sellers, it reduces the usability a lot, but I managed to find a few without obvious out of era buildings etc. I bought two that you see the most on eBay, but it was so long ago that they don’t appear in my history to share I’m afraid. These are 5’ long, quite a lot are much shorter. All I can advise sadly is to browse and hope you find one suitable. To answer your other question, mine have all come rolled up in a tube, so I mounted them on foam board.

[@miketike3246]

@@MiniatureRealmsAwesome, thanks! Will see if I can manage to track down a few...

[@gunhojput]

Great vid Stuart very informative could you please tell me where you got your british light infantry in action poses from, all best.

[@MiniatureRealms]

Thank you John. The light infantry are a mix of Warlord’s skirmishing Rifles and some 3d printed rifles from MC Miniatures (link in the video description I think) - I just painted some a redcoats.

[@adamcox8857]

Great video as ever! A request for you - are you planning on doing any conversions of British troops to Dutch/Belgian/Hanoverian/Brunswick etc?

[@MiniatureRealms]

Thank you Adam 🙂. If I’m honest not in the short to medium term, I’m planning on using 3d printed Dutch/Belgians - they may get a tutorial that may help though. Hanoverians/Brunswick is a potential, but again not soo I don’t think.

[@adamcox8857]

@@MiniatureRealms OK, no probs. Probably a good thing TBH - you videos got me into Epic Waterloo and I don't need an excuse to spend even more money! ;-)

[@norm977]

All good. I am using 2 bases per units, so an 8’ x 4’ in the book can easily be done on the 6’ x 4’.

[@MiniatureRealms]

Perfect, that’s a sensible approach for sure.

[@wolf58th21]

I just got ACW starter to see if I like the black power rules. I went with 15mm because I have another game that is 15mm. Also mainly 15mm is because I only have a 6x4’ table. So is there a frontage issue with both epic series.

[@MiniatureRealms]

The choice to make the stands 60mm is a great one aesthetically, but it does result in wide units on the table, so much so that it negates some of the advantages of the smaller scale. So many players use less stands/split strips etc to gain back the advantage.

[@norm977]

@@wolf58th21 There isn’t a design issue, Warlord want this game to look / be EPIC, so that means big head count per unit. Black powder has always been a big table game …. However, those of us with smaller tables i.e. standard domestic have always looked for ways of shrinking unit footprint and dropping measurements (i.e halving for example or converting inches to centimetres) and that applies as much to Epic as to 28mm, hence I am dropping my Epic from 4 or 5 bases to 2. It might not look as ‘Epic’ as Warlord intended, but it works for me 🙂

[@Rusty_Gold85]

Where I am lost is you have made the 6 stands out of 8 and they contain the Flag bearer base what do you do with the last 2 that havn't got a Standard bearer ?

[@MiniatureRealms]

I don’t plan to use them in most games. The reason I split the stands was to reduce frontage, I was happy with the look of 3 regular stands, but that meant I couldn’t form square the way I wanted, so I have to split one of those three stands at least. I considered spotting the command stand, that would mean only one needed to be split, but if I ever wanted to reduce the unit size further, then I’d have to loose a flank company. So I opted for splitting both flank company stands. This leaves me with two half stands that in most cases I won’t use, but I’ll paint up a few to add in to units to represent large units. Sorry I’m not sure that’s any clearer 😂

[@Rusty_Gold85]

@@MiniatureRealms Dont be sorry Stuart. I could see what the plans were , you have a great ability to teach us through it and wondered about that 4th one will go towards. Another thing Warlord just released the Sarissa Le Haye Sainte free with the Starter kit. The AUD doesnt give us much value at $224

[@MiniatureRealms]

Ah I see, yep mostly just kept for the odd stand to make units bigger. If I wasn’t 3D printing my Dutch/Belgians etc, I may have saved them to that. That is a great freebie, wonder if they ordered a few too many made. You don’t get a lot of value for toy with the AUD do you ☹️