My version of Hougoumont from the South East. Pireme's Hougoumont pack unopened, but the little diagram shows how extensive it is So, going back to the premise stated above, I did not get obsessed about following the instructions to produce lovely, but hopelessly oversized replicas, and instead treated it as a creative activity just cutting and sticking the nicely printed components as I needed in order to match the required size and character. These are 1:1 scale at 15mm so you got a lot of buildings for your money and the LBA set was padded out with an indeterminate Waterloo style farm too.
They produced one for Hougoumont, one for La Haye Sainte (LHS) and one for La Belle Alliance (LBA).
#How to make wargames terrain farmfields series#
The lightbulb moment came when I remembered I had two sets of each of the series of 15mm Waterloo card buildings produced by Pireme Publishing and marketed by Miniature Wargames magazine quite a few years ago. We pooled resources but the collection of 15mm buildings we had contained very few that were suitable. I had no pre-conceived ideas about what to use. That also meant that representing the exact configuration of the farms and chateau buildings would be impossible so I had to settle for something with the right character and look that also did the job. We concluded that I could just about get away with buildings sized to go with 15mm figures provided I took into account the immediate surroundings of woods, orchards, gardens etc in the the total footprint. We did a lot of homework on the sizes and shapes of the built up areas and the ground scale for the game. This was hard for me as an artist and very visually stimulated wargamer, but any scaled up wargame has to make a lot of compromises over size versus history versus playability. Here is the follow up to my previous post on making the Waterloo terrain colouring the big-battle terrain.
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