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Re: 28mm Napoleonic

Postby leopard » Thu Jun 27, 2019 7:02 pm

Started work on another regiment of British now, partly to see if painting them as a single batch of 24 + sergeant is likely to end in suicide.

so far so good.

hopefully the house move will help me find the other part painted regiment
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Re: 28mm Napoleonic

Postby leopard » Thu Jul 04, 2019 11:53 am

new regiment is progressing well, hope to have it ready for a photo early next week.

have also had a significant reinforcements drop thats going to keep me busy for a while, but will hopefully see a more or less usable French army for larger scale games and a few more interesting bits for both French and British at skirmish level, including some French Engineer models & officer, a British rocketeer, pile of dead French soldiers (likely to be very useful) and a few small units from other forces (Nassau for example)

got hold of the Black Powder book "Clash of Eagles", party for actually playing Black Powder at some point, a somewhat abstracted and simplified game to be sure but a game still. but also to use for ideas on more bits for skirmishing systems and hopefully once the French are ready a few eastern front type battles.

finally have the very nice looking La Haye Sainte farmhouse to build up, which will be useful for all sorts of 28mm gaming given how long its been there for.

it is possible I may go a bit mad painting all the strap details, its also possible no one will notice

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Re: 28mm Napoleonic

Postby leopard » Mon Jul 15, 2019 6:38 pm

Right, a few pictures

British force, group pictures
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Two regiments, 95th Rifles in support and a couple of officers. Regiment to the left is the new one, lacking colours as yet pending ordering some for them.

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First group of riflemen, including a few characters, Artizan Designs models mostly with a couple of Perry Miniatures plastics

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Previously seen line regiment, Victrix models, behind a handful of Warlord games models on larger bases - the prototype figures I did, now used as 'sentry' types

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Newly completed regiment, same yellow facings to make merging them for Sharp Practice easier, need a bit of grass

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Second group of riflemen, again characters intermixed, same source as before.

Pretty happy with them so far, lurking behind are a pair of Warlord games mounted officers. There is in theory a third regiment of these somewhere around here
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Re: 28mm Napoleonic

Postby Baldie » Mon Jul 15, 2019 7:46 pm

Very good.
Going to get a couple more command stands for my Russians but happy to have a crack at Sharp Practice or BP
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Re: 28mm Napoleonic

Postby leopard » Mon Jul 15, 2019 8:27 pm

Baldie wrote:Very good.
Going to get a couple more command stands for my Russians but happy to have a crack at Sharp Practice or BP


SP is easy enough, have the froggies set up for that, British not quite there yet
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Re: 28mm Napoleonic

Postby leopard » Tue Jul 16, 2019 2:41 pm

Supply drop arrived today for these, now have movement trays for cavalry when they get the mag sheet and paint applied, plus various sized steel bases, mostly for cavalry and some MDF ones for cannons and to make sabot bases for officers.

With luck the end of the week will see a unit of French cavalry assembled, based and primed, plan is to try and paint next week alongside some 6mm ickle dudes.

Have had a read of the BP starter and scenario and it looks decent, suggests infantry regiments of 12 models (basically half the size in the box) so the French get four and the British six (two of which are Hanoverian), then six for cavalry giving the French two of them and the British a single gun.

with only a single officer each thats a lot of control headaches but apparently works better on a 6'x4' table - personally I still think distances need reducing though on a 4' wide table, especially as cavalry can potentially move 54" in a turn.

A fair few in the "Clash of Eagles" books hark back to the older standard of 8'x4' for tables as well, but won't have the models to play them without a bit of scaling back for a while.

There is a downloadable list for Russians in Sharp Practice, and Austrians but you need to look a bit harder for that so a somewhat more Eastern theatre bit of warfare is possible there.

May even soon have a French cannon ready to roll, though only a 6 pounder
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Re: 28mm Napoleonic

Postby leopard » Thu Jul 25, 2019 12:09 pm

Not much happening due to the heat, however sitting assembled, based and primed ready for paint there is currently

- 12x French Chassurs a Cheval light cavalry (+ another three to start the second regiment)
- 1x French 6dpr cannon, five crew and an officer
- 4x French dragoons (assembled ages ago, still waiting some paint)
- 24x Hanoverian infantry, 18x plastic and a nice Warlord metal command group to lead them
- 6x mixed French officers and NCOs on foot

In theory should really have put the British cannon together first, but the aim here is to have a light cannon for Sharp Practice, no more mobile than the medium British one we are usually shot to ribbons by, but slightly cheaper. This being a Perry Twins model the crew look very nice, the extra crew set providing the 5th crewman and the officer to lead them.

Not sure which bits will be done first, suspect they may all end up waiting until after the house move to allow the 6mm stuff to be worked on first.

There are also a huge number unpainted...

- 12x British cavalry, not entirely sure what sort
- 36x British line infantry, Perry twins models as a regiment and a half, IIRC these are in the later waterloo uniforms
- 2x 24 British waterloo line infantry
- 36x Hanoverian line infantry (when they get command packs will build as two further regiments)
- 1x British Royal Artillery cannon
- 24x British peninsular line infantry, part painted victrix models, these are in a box "somewhere"
- 16x Kings German Legion 2nd Battalion infantry, mix of muskets and rifles
- 6x Kings German Legion light infantry

- 2x 36 French line infantry, will build as three regiments
- 2x 24 French line infantry
- 18x French Chassurs a Cheval (will eventually gain a few more to build as two regiments)
- 4x French Hussars
- 6x Voliguer skirmishers
- 6x Engineers including an officer

plus numerous other small units and a range of foot and mounted officer figures

this is, I gather, technically referred to as "lots"
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Re: 28mm Napoleonic

Postby leopard » Mon Sep 09, 2019 9:21 am

Bit of slow progress, another civilian (farm yokel) nearly done, plus work progressing on a 6pdr French cannon and crew
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Re: 28mm Napoleonic

Postby leopard » Sat Jan 11, 2020 7:37 pm

Another outing for De-LaMerde and his merry bunch, taking on the British under Captain Jobbers..

close run thing, ended 5-0, starting that turn 5-3 and the one before 5-5, when the collapse comes it comes fast.

British centre collapsed, their points came from the relentless way they chased and hunted down skirmishers, forcing them back turn after turn as they sapped for forces morale, just didn't get the shock on the British for force them back, just slowly killing them.

a beautiful table of terrain, thanks to Mr Cooke, and two painted armies makes the game look excellent.

much longer game than usual as we both avoided the lethal close range first volley, and the British used uncontrolled volleys and "sharp practice" for a seriously high rate of fire, eventually got around behind them and that was the end of the centre, had I managed it before my Grenadiers had been hammered to nothing, though their sacrifice helped the rest get into position.

need to dig up my civilians and other objectives to have a run at some of the other missions
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Re: 28mm Napoleonic

Postby Baldie » Sun Jan 12, 2020 8:46 am

It looked great.
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