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The last post before the stop was about the battle of Blenheim. Now I restart from the same battle with a new project: since my eyes are not anymore at their best, and given the fact that I am a very slow-painter, I decided to convert to papersoldiers.
Browsing on the web, a couple of years ago, I found the beautiful works of Peter Dennis that can be found either on the Helion & Co. website or in his own website Peters Paperboys. The paper miniatures, despite their long history, are considered as a sort of "sons of a lesser God" when compared to lead or plastic miniatures. However, they have a great advantage: they are cheaper and (at least for me) the process of glueing and snipping is faster than the process of painting.
Furthermore, Peter's Papersoldiers are beautiful and ranges between so many subjects. His book on the Spanish Succession Armies is a delight for the eyes. So last summer I decided to try and started snipping with the aim to get enough troops to play Blenheim.
As a keen Volley&Bayonet adept I decided to base the minis on the classical 3"x1.5" linear infantry bases and on the 3"x3" massed cavalry bases: however I slightly upscaled the conversion between metric and imperial units to 3"= 8 cm.
Moreover, I also wrote a simple set of fast-play rules, based on those provided by Matt Fritz on the Juniorgeneral site and with the same basing of V&B: these rules can be downloaded for free from Peter Dennis website.
In the next posts I shall discuss my choices for the Scenario (indeed there are many scenarios of Blenheim for V&B, but they left me unsatisfied, so I designed my own) and show the armies: this time I'll show you a sample unit which I prepared as test unit: indeed it is the french regiment Du Roi which, according to Kronoskaf was the only regiment of Tallard's Army to remain on the Rhine during that fateful summer.
