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Here you can find a pot-pourri of articles written by members of the Fusiliers, including reviews of figures and rules, how-to instructions, industry news ....
Fusiliers' demo games
at 2008 Call to Arms
The Kapiti Fusiliers were well represented amongst the demo games at this
year's Call to Arms, held at St Patrick's College, Wellington, on the
weekend of 16/17 August 2008. The photos in this article show some of
the demo games from the first day, particularly those put on by Kapiti
Fusiliers. Read more ...
40mm Perry Napoleonic figures
Perry Miniatures have a very attractive range of 40mm Peninsular War figures.
Fusilier Roly Hermans has painted his first few British ansd French figures
for a future skirmish gaming project. Read more
...
Pendon Museum - the
ultimate in scenery
Fusilier Roly Hermans describes a visit to the Pendon
Museum of Miniature Landscape and Transport during his recent trip to
the United Kingdom. Read more ...
A meeting with the
Perry twins
Alan and Michael Perry from Perry Miniatures in the UK
recently spent an afternoon of drinks (that stretched into a whole evening!)
with the Kapiti Fusiliers in Wellington, New Zealand. Read
more ...
The Battle of Little
Wibbleton on the Wold
Fusilier Scott Bowman describes a game of Warhammer Ancient Battles using
the Armies of Chivalry Supplement, loosely based on the Wars of the Roses
circa 1480. Read more ...
Mac Colla's
Charge
Our French Fusilier, Eric Veitl, describes a WAB English Civil War game
that took place in Nimes recently. Read more
...
The Kapiti Fusiliers Regiment
Never heard of the Kapiti Fusiliers Regiment? Well, that's not surprising
really, as it only exists in miniature. Read on, dear reader, and learn
more ...
"Don't fence me in!"
- Games Workshop's fences and walls
Games Workshop have released a box of walls and fences aimed at their
Warhammer fantasy gaming market. Fusilier Roly Hermans checks out this
set, and describes how to convert them for use in historical games as
well ... read more.
Review of 28mm Napoleonic
French by Companion Miniatures
Fusilier Roly Hermans is always looking for variety for his wargames armies.
And that is certainly what he got when he recently purchased a battalion
of Napoelonic French infantry from Companion Miniatures ... read
more.
A
peaceful village somewhere on the Peninsula
Fusilier Roly Hermans describes how he has based his
Spanish buildings as a village, and inhabited it with Perry figures ...
read more.
Tarleton's Quarter?
Fusilier Wayne Stack has written a research paper on the reputation of
Banastre Tarleton. We reproduce it here, along with a postscript he has
written on how to rate Tarleton and the British Legion in American War
of Independence games.... read more.
Comparison of Perry,
Front Rank and Foundry figures
Here are some photos of a similar type of battalion from
each of these three manaufacturers, so you can compare style and size
... read more.
The 85ème Régiment
d'Infanterie de Ligne in miniature
Fusilier Roly Hermans describes his latest painting project, a 28mm Napoleonic
French regiment using Perry Miniatures ... read
more.
Willie Figures make
a comeback
Fusilier Roly Hermans reports some samples from the remodelled
range of Edward Suren's 30mm Willie figures ... read
more.
A trip down memory lane
- an old Spencer-Smith plastic Bavarian army
Recently Fusilier Roly Hermans pulled his old Spencer-Smith Bavarian army
out from the back of his wardrobe where it has been languishing unloved
for over 25 years ... read more.
International
wargaming celebs visit the Kapiti Fusiliers
Three well-known UK figure sculptors, Alan and Michael Perry and Brian
Nelson, recently flew half-way round the world specially to visit the
Kapiti Fusiliers, and to squeeze in a little work for Peter Jackson on
the side ... read more.
Review
of 1:72 Country Houses by Italeri
Fusilier Roly Hermans reviews two country house kits produced
by Italeri ... read more.
A
Life on the Ocean Wave - Britannia Miniature's 28mm Ship's Boat
As a change from this site's emphasis on land warfare, here is a review
of Britannia Miniature's new 28mm Napoleonic ship's boat kit ... read
more.
The
Vendée 1793-1794 : Wargaming in the Grand Manner
Fusilier Paul Crouch provides a blow-by-blow account of a superb Vendée
game he had the pleasure of playing in Auckland recently... read
more
Alexander
the (less than) Great goes to Call To Arms.
Fusilier Terry Swain gives us a humourous report on a Warhammer Ancient
Battles tournament at the Wellington Warlords annual convention on August
20-21, 2005 ... read more
More
Buildings for Wargamers
Fusilier Brian Smaller describes how he made this character-filled 25mm
house, based on the commercial houses marketed by Conflix, out
of Styrofoam and cardboard .... read
more
Redoubt's new F & I
Wars French Regular Infantry
Redoubt started their French and Indian Wars range with Indian warriors,
then moved on to settlers, rangers, colonial miltia, and coureur de
bois. Now French regulars have made their debut ... read
more.
The
Battle of Rusty Creek
Fusilier Paul Crouch, who recently moved up to Auckland, reports on a
spectacular American Civil War game played on John Berry's 14' x 6' table
... read more
Two
Out-of-the-Ordinary Napoleonic Games
Fusilier Roly Hermans reports on two games he played in one week recently.
Each of these games had some rather odd features, which he describes in
this article .... read more
Reenacting the Battle of
Waterloo
Fusilier Roly Hermans has just returned from a trip to Europe to take
part in the 190th anniversary reenactment of the Battle of Waterloo -
maybe this could be called wargaming with 1800mm figures! You can read
about his experiences and see photos of the event ... read
more.
Pratzen ,,, Dratzen! A Napoleonic
Battle Report
The
opportunity to play a Napoleonic war game on a 12’ by 6' table with
over a thousand painted figures doesn’t come along every day, so
when Fusilier Greg Simmonds suggested such a game we jumped at the chance
... read more.
American Civil War Fire
and Fury Game Report
Fusiliers
Paul Crouch, Steve Sands and Roly Hermans recently played a friendly and
very leisurely American Civil War game. It was loosely based on the Battle
of Farmville Road, which occurred two days before the end of the war.
... read more.
Carlo Pagano's Viking Bloodbath
Game Report
Carlo Pagano from Western Australia is a "virtual" member of
the Kapiti Fusiliers. Here he describes a game that his club played recently
... read more.
Effective Use of Basecloths
for Terrain
Making a realistic ground effect needn't be an expensive or complicated
business. Paul Crouch, a member of the Kapiti Fusiliers, has put on several
demonstration games in the past which have caused a lot of complimentary
comments for their realism, but which use an incredibly simple system
to attain those magic effects ... read more.
Roger Murrow's Foundry
French Napoleonics
Guest contributor Roger Murrow was quite taken with our website, but noticed
that we featured very few Foundry figures. So he sent us this article
about his first year of collecting and painting a Napoleonic French army
with Foundry figures - and they certainly look nice ... read
more.
Command Piquet
- new Rules for Horse & Musket 
Fusilier
Roly Hermans gives us a brief look at the forth-coming Command Piquet
rules, then is joined by Fusilier Peter Haldezos in presenting a photo-report
of their recent test game of these rules - the hypothetical Battle of
Mohlenberg Hill ... read more.
Review of Capitulation's
Fontenoy à Culloden range
The
Battle of Fontenoy, which took place during the War of the Austrian Succession,
is the subject of a new range of 30mm figures sculpted in the style of
those old Suren and Willie miniatures ... read
more.
Mark Strachan's New Zealand
Wars Figures
Like many New Zealand wargamers, I often have a twinge of guilt that I
am more engrossed with the military history of foreign nations rather
than that of my own country ... read more
OOB for the Battle of Rocroi
1643.
Fusilier Eric Veitl from France presents the OOB for this important battle
of the Thirty Years War, which can be refought using 25/28 mm ECW figurines:
Perrys, Renegade, Front Rank, Foundry (if you can still find them!) ...
read more
A Quick and Easy Basing
Method.
Even
the crudest-painted figures will look great if they are placed on attractive
bases. And, conversely, even the most attractively painted figures will
look terrible if placed on crude bases. Here is a simple method of making
your bases look good with a minimum of effort .... read
more.
A Tale of Two Fusiliers.
The Kapiti Fusiliers owes its existence to an online YahooGroup known
as the Friday Night Fusiliers. Roly Hermans describes the connection between
the two Fusiliers groups. ... read more
New Kiwi range of 25mm miniatures
to be produced by Mark Strachan.
Mark Strachan is a well-known wargamer and modeller from New Zealand.
Since January, he has been working on a new range of 25mm figures. His
aim is to cover the periods he enjoys ... read
more
Simple
Approaches to Photographing Your Figures
Fusilier Mike MacGillivray writes: Over the past
few months, I've begun photographing (vs. scanning) miniatures for the
Spanner &
the Yank website. And queries were received about what I use and how
to do it ... read more
Reenacting the Battle of Gettysburg
'Shoulder
arms! ...Right face! ...Forward march!' shouted our First Sergeant. Hefting
my musket onto my shoulder, I stepped forward, keeping in line with the
other men of the 47th Virginia Infantry of the Confederate Army of Northern
Virginia, who were ranged in two ranks on either side of me. A soldier
carrying a bright red flag emblazoned with a blue diagonal cross and white
stars marched in front of our formation, while from behind us came the
steady rat-a-tat-a-tat of a drum. The sun glinted off our bayonets as
they swayed above us in time to our gait ... read
more
Two Dimensions instead of
Three.
Model
soldiers don't only come in fully-rounded form. Fusilier Roly
Hermans shows us some German flat figures that he painted many years
ago.... read more.
Making Buildings for Wargames
Can't
afford miniature buildings? Fusilier Roly Hermans shows you how he made
his own complete 25mm Spanish village for less than $NZ40 ... read
more.
Foundry Seven Years War
von Kleist Infantry
For
a long time Foundry forgot about their Seven Years War range and lot of
people (including me) were complaining about the unfinished ranges of
Foundry. I would not wish to relive the strange period of these five or
six past years when Foundry was .... read more
SYW Russian Artillery by
Foundry
Presented
as five pieces to be assembled, this gun is nearly the same size as that
from Front Rank (1mm difference). The casting is average, even if I would
prefer more details on the wood on the wheels. If I look carefully I can
see that some nails on the mounting are badly placed - between the wood
and the iron .... read more
"Major Pelham’s
Battery" by Redoubt Enterprises
It
was the action poses of the gunners in an advertising image of Redoubt's
American Civil War "Pelham's Battery" set (ACX 53) that first
caught my eye. So often miniature artillery units have their gunners in
very static poses, or in a mix of action poses that are not coordinated
together to show a particular part of the gun drill. These Redoubt teams,
however .... read more
To Piquet or Not to Piquet
For
those gamers who are tired of six sets of rules for six different periods,
salvation could be at hand. Piquet is a master set of rules for
wargaming, with specific supplements for differing periods. One learns
the master rules for all periods and then the supplements bring the ...
read more
