WELCOME TO THE BACCUS 6MM SITE
Baccus specialises in the design and production of wargames figures and accessories in the 6mm scale. Although it is often overlooked by the dominance of the 15 and 28mm scales, the smaller figures offer huge advantages in terms of flexibility, prices and ease of painting. It often comes as a pleasant surprise to our new customers that they find 6mm figures easier and quicker to paint than their coarser-scale brethren.
29th May 2025 :: Lens 1648 - Update number 2
So why did we choose the Battle of Lens?
Well, to start with it is notable for being was the last major battle of the Thirty Years War. It also fitted our criteria in terms of size of forces and the layout of what will become the game table. The French army mustered some 16,000 men, the Spanish 18,000. These figures translated nicely to the gaming bases at the scale we had chosen. The battlefield itself is the real life equivalent of a simple gaming mat; no relief, no pesky rivers or streams, no major settlements and no real tree cover. As I have to build the gaming board with my very limited skills this was a gift from Heaven!
read more23rd May 2025 :: This week, it's all about the Joy of Six
Hello one and all. This week it’s all about the Joy of Six 2025, which is just under two months away. But first, it’s this week’s magic order number, which stands at #31953.
We’ve just updated the Joy of Six website, www.joysofsix.co.uk where you will find an up to date list of games and traders. We’ve got an amazing line up of games. We don’t know how they do it, but each year the exhibitors manage to put on something more spectacular than the previous year. They move the bar on, ‘Excellence’ up a notch every 12 months.
read more20th May 2025 :: Baccus 6mm Presents - Lens 1648....
Over the past few years, my long term collaborator, Derek, and I have had the ambition to stage a game using our Big Based Battalia units. We’d always wanted to do battle from the Thirty Years War, and after a lot of research, Derek found the ideal one for us. It wasn’t too big, too small and the scenery needed was practical for my limited modelling skills. As a result, we are pleased to present to you, the Battle of Lens.
The Battle of Lens (20 August 1648) was the last major battle of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648). It is typical of the changing nature of European politics of the period, that war which started with one set of German Catholic states fighting another set of Protestant German states in Bohemia, should conclude with a Catholic French army defeating a Catholic Spanish army in northern France!
I’ll flesh out the historical side of the battle in future posts, but for the moment, it’s time to talk about the game itself. It will be a participation game, so you get the chance to push the lovely big based units around the table. We will be using a variant of our very popular, ‘Old Trousers’ rules, which are simple but do present the players with some tricky decision making. The aim will be for each game to last 30-40 minutes, so we can fit in a few sessions during the day.
There will be regular updates leading up the Joy of Six. If nothing else this means that I really have to get my finger out and get some work done!
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