Partizan, Oct 12th & North America

Partizan - Newark - October 12th 2025

Along with Simon Miller (the author of the To the Strongest rules), I am putting on a display/participation game using my 40mm SYW collection. The game will be on a 12' x 6' table and will be based on the Battle of Kolin, using a draft version of Simon's new 18th century rules.

If any of you are planning to go to Partizan, please pop in and have a chat, and if any of you want to join in the game let me know in the comments below and I will let you have more details.

SYW - North America

Chris has sent me some pictures of the figures for the initial release of figures for the SYW in North America. These figures are near complete so should be released in the (PA) near future.

(I recently bought a copy of the Muskets and Tomahawks skirmish rules and am hoping steer PA towards producing enough figures to allow a French and Indian Wars 'skirmish' game to be played?)

British Rangers

There will be four figures in two moulds comprising:

• Officer with musket pointing
• Ranger firing
• Ranger loading
• Ranger advancing

There is a large variety of heads, which as usual will be interchangeable, also the officer will have a separate hand so he can have either a musket or a tomahawk (probably not the separate arm shown). These four figures, with head swaps, should be enough to make a nice skirmishing unit.

Native Americans

Initially there will just be a single mould with:

• Native American firing
• Native American advancing

The heads will be interchangeable, and hopefully for the advancing figure both hands will be separate to allow the musket and tomahawk to be switched. It is appreciated that two figures are not enough for gaming purposes (but PA wanted to release them now). It is intended to produce (hopefully many) more figures in a variety of poses and clothing to allow interesting gaming units of different nations to be collected.

Future plans for the North American range

As discussed above, it is planned to add further Native American figures.

PA already produce moulds to cast French and British regular 'close order' units, and the 'advancing' figures look OK in a skirmish game. At a later stage it might be worth adding a single mould to each of those ranges with firing figures - this is a very long term idea.

Militia units played a significant role in the war, so it is planned to produce moulds to cover those figures.

As usual comments welcome.