Autumn News From Magister Militum

Here's our latest news. Now the summer holidays are done, we've been busy catching up with photography. I am pleased to report there are at least 300 new photos from right across our ranges:

Cap Aero to Coastal and 1:6000 ships
10mm & 15mm Napoleonic have a good smattering
10mm fantasy
A few 10mm ancients
3mm Vaubanesque
And some accessories like dice and dice towers
You can see them all in one place easily on our Facebook page.

In other news, we are about to release a new range of 15mm ECW, and they are with the painter at the moment along with lots of 3mm figures.

Meanwhile, having got all the newly released GHQ live on the website, Richard has been busy adding the 250 products in the Osmy Oddzial 3mm range which is quite a big job! He's about half way through at the moment, if you can't see what you'd like, do email on info@magistermilitum.com and we'll be able to help you.

Magister Militum

What's happening with BKC?

To find out follow Pendrakens discussion on Blitzkrieg Commander Rules.

This question has been one of the most common asked of us this year, so we'll quickly run through what's going on!

The plan from the beginning has been to revamp all three of the Commander rulesets, tweaking the rules themselves where necessary, changing the layouts and formatting to make them more modern, and rebranding them with our products/logos, etc.  The army lists will also be revised and possibly reduced (at least in the main rulebook) and altered to suit our ranges where we can.

So, the current jobs list is as follows:

1.  Changes/tweaks to the rules themselves.
2.  Fixes to anything raised in feedback on the BKC site and on our Forum here:
3.  Changes to the wording where necessary to make them easier to understand.
4.  Look at the army lists to see if we can make any minor changes to better fit with our ranges, but only whilst maintaining historical accuracy!
5.  Reformatting of the layout and new photos throughout.

We're aiming to have 1-4 done by the end of December, then we'll take care of the formatting and photos ready for a reprint in January hopefully.  Now this is a little later than we'd originally planned and we apologise for that, but this is a big job and we want to get it right.

Once BKC has been done and re-released, we'll carry out the same process on Cold War Commander, which will be sometime mid-2016 we expect.   Then finally Future War Commander will be the last to get the treatment, end of 2016 hopefully.

Obviously there will be some questions on all of that, so let us know and we'll do our best to answer them.

Pendraken Miniatures

New WWI Additions at Pendraken

In between molding new Warband ranges, prepping new Romans and Gauls, and packing/unpacking the van for shows, we've managed to get a few extra WWI goodies sorted out and ready for release. This small batch includes casualty markers for several of the nations (plus a generic one in cap), and also some items from our requests lists, such as the Belgian Lancers or Highlanders in glengarry.

WWI

British
BP62 – Highlanders, in Glengarry (30) £4.50
BP63 – Wiring party (10) – £1.50
BP64 – Casualty markers (10) – £1.50

Belgian
B7 – Lancers (15) – £4.50

German
GP48 – Casualty markers (10) – £1.50

French
F35 – Casualty markers (10) – £1.50

Austro-Hungarian
AH16 – Casualty markers (10) – £1.50

Accessories
WW6 – Casualty markers (10) – £1.50

We'll have a few more WWI releases coming soon, with the wagon and ambulance almost ready to go now. After those will be the new Wood Elves for Warband, the Napoleonic Nassau troops, and the new Roman/Gallic ranges!

And some pics:

BP62 – Highlanders in glengarry:

BP63 – Wiring party:

BP64 – British casualty markers:

B7 – Belgian Lancers:

GP48 – German casualty markers:

F35 – French casualty markers:

AH16 – Austro-Hungarian casualty markers:

WW6 – Generic casualty markers:

Pendraken Miniatures

Brigade Models Releases Sci-Fi Buildings

Today, we're releasing three new items in our 10mm SF Buildings range. In this release, we have two towers of different designs and a building with twin roof domes. All are single-piece resin castings and are available now from the website.

B10-104 – Small Tower 1 – £3.50 

B10-122 – Small Tower 2 – £4.00 

B10-123 – Twin Dome Building – £3.50 

We'd also like to remind everyone about the next show we're attending, Blast-tastic! in Bristol next Saturday. Since this is an SF-themed show, we will not be carrying either the Celtos or Magpie fantasy ranges or the 28mm Great War Belgians. If you'd like anything from these ranges, you'll have to order in advance (either email us or order from the website using the Collect in Person shipping option). And of course, we're happy to take advance orders for any other ranges as well.

Brigade Models

Arrowhead Miniatures Release

Arrowhead Miniatures have just released remakes of the British Cromwell, Warrior APC , Jeep and the American M4A3E8 ( Fury ) tanks. They now have opened hatches and some interior detail. No pictures yet but working on them.

British Cromwell

Warrior APC

Arrowhead Miniatures

Lord and Lands Rules

Lord and Lands mass fantasy battles proof copy in hand looks awesome. Rules due for first print from caliver books next week.

Totally interchangeable with historic rules so you can pit historic armies from any period against each other or fantasy vs historic

Historic rules off to publisher next week too so won't be long

Loads of instructional videos on LAL here

Examples are 6mm but will work for any scale

23 army lists done for historic LAL
Imperial Rome
Britons
Germanic tribes
Republican Rome
Late republican Rome
Carthaginians
Greek city states
Persians
Alexandrians
Later Persians
Successors
Indian
Egyptians
Hittites
Assyrians
Seleucids
Parthians
Sassanids
Numidians
Norman's
Saxons
Vikings

ECW and Middle Ages to follow

Author Craig Armstrong

Fight for a Throne. The Jacobite '45 Reconsidered

The bid of Bonnie Prince Charlie and his Jacobites for the throne of Britain has never lost its grip on the popular imagination. In July 1745 he and a tiny group of companions arrived in Scotland.

They came unannounced and unsupported, and yet within less than five months Charles was able to lead an army to within marching distance of London and make King George II fear for this throne. Afterwards the Highland Army continued to out-fight the redcoats in every encounter, except its very last. These were not the achievements of a backward-looking cause, and this ground-breaking study is the first to explain exactly why.

Almost to the very end the Jacobites had the literal and metaphorical edge over their enemies, thanks to the terror-inspiring highland charge, and also, as this book as this book is the first to reveal, to the highly-advanced organisation of their forces in divisions miniature armies that allowed them to out-manoeuvre their enemies on the strategic plane. At the same time Prince Charles made a credible bid for the political and ideological high ground, an appeal based on religious toleration, and a monarchy working in cooperation with an empowered and accountable Parliament. The Prince therefore not only drew on traditional loyalties, but attracted the support of heavyweights of the new Enlightenment .

It all made a telling contrast to the demeaning nature of the Hanoverian government in Britain, which was mired deep in corruption. The Hanoverian politicians in London and Scotland, who had honed their skills in petty advantage, were now all of a sudden called upon to act as strategists, and they failed completely. The prime minister lost the Carlisle to the Jacobites simply because he refused to pay the cost of a courier. These revelations, which show the Jacobite enterprise of 1745 as a potent and modernising force, turn the accepted interpretation of this episode on its head. As an impartial historian Christopher Duffy deals comprehensively with the reasons for ultimate triumph of the Hanoverian cause in 1746. Due credit is given to the Duke of Cumberland. He was an inspirational leader.

He had the measure of the strength and weaknesses of the British Army, and he evolved the cautious and systematic kind of war that helped to bring him victory at Culloden on 16 April 1746. Conversely the Jacobites had been dogged even from the start of the Rising by their failure to reconcile two perspectives that of Prince Charles, who was striving to reclaim the crown for the Stuarts in London, and the narrower visions of the more overtly Scottish party. It led to the contentious turn-around of the Jacobites at Derby, and finally and fatally to the dispersal and exhaustion of the Highland Army before Culloden.

These assertions rest on the recent advances by other historians in Jacobite studies , and the author s continuing researches in to unexploited primary sources. His documentary finds extend to the autobiography of Lieutenant-General Hawley, Lord George Murray s explanations of key episodes of the Rising (and his detailed accompanying map of Culloden), the material collected by the restored Whig administration in Edinburgh towards an official history of the Rising, the Reverend John Home s detailed questioning of survivors, and much more.

Lastly Duffy returns to his starting point, the enduring appeal of the 45 to our instincts. He concludes that it comes from the elusive nature of the episode, recognised by tough-minded men of the time as something epic and miraculous literally beyond rational explanation, and capable ever since of being re-fashioned according to our imaginings.

Contains c 120 colour & b/w photos, maps.