Also completed this weekend - the first four (of eight planned) guns for my Ottoman Turkish army.
These are the four lighter guns, more suitable for field operations. The remaining four are bigger, heavier pieces, more common in sieges, which don't feature much on the wargames table, but might provide an interesting "objective" for an enemy army trying to prevent the Turks bringing their big guns up for a siege.
This army really still needs more cavalry (and possibly infantry). I have enough to represent the Early Ottoman forces, (by borrowing horse archers from my other "Asian" armies - Mongols, Huns, maybe even Skythians) when they were initially building their empire, but not so much for the later years. Hopefully I can get the cavalry finished over the next week or two.
I've started using small "cotton balls" that I found in the crafts department at Walmart to indicate a gun has fired (this game turn) - representing the smoke from the blast. Hopefully that will save me trying to remember which guns are firing this turn and which aren't.
I'll probably also use them to mark the targets of the shot (the smoke from the explosion when the cannonball landed).
Maybe this will put more "action" into the photos I take of the battles?
Oh, and just a reminder of how colorful Ottoman cavalry is, take a look at these guys.....
I think I'll be able to get some pretty nice looking photos with them racing across the battlefield.
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