More limbers and some ADCS Napoleonic 49

 Four more 3d printed Napoleonic French transport teams and three MDF limbers from warbases. In addition there are two French mounted command and two Austrian  mounted command. These are the second wave of limbers, the team without a limber gets added to a limber team to signify horse artillery.  I really liked these 3d prints I got off etsy, good detail and largely matching Perry in size, you get three two horse teams plus limber,  traces and an artillery piece with three barrel options, the wheels are a bit big and the carriage is a bit small but  you will see some of them crewed up in the not too distant  future and at £13 including postage something of a bargain especially as there are no lines. The command chaps are here as ADCs as when you have to send a command beyond a certain distance in Valour  and  Fortitude you need to send a messenger, not essential but we decided it was a nice touch, the Austrians are spare Victrix Colonels while the French are assembled from a variety of Perry/ warlord/Victrix  spares, the joys of plastic kits! Painted in my usual slap dash single colours on a black undercoat,no highlights or fancy washes here I'm afraid, fast and dirty being my favoured format!

Aiming for adequate I think I've largely achieved it, I especially like the dragoon trumpeter torso with extra hussar bits and a Victrix Colonels arm on a Warlord English civil war horse with the additional Perry gun covers meant for carabiner command, he makes a particularly dashing ADC, just a pity his sword handle got glued the wrong way around!

All the best 

Iain 

 

Valour and Fortitude big Christmas family game Napoleonics 48

 During the holidays we had another big Napoleonic family game with British, Russian and Austrian armies of 250 points each against three French armies of 250 points each on a 6' x 11' table, which was the first time we've gone this big in the shed, I think I could maybe extend to 14' in the future which might be helpful!

Opposite the French left flank was the British army , central was the Austrians and on the right flank was the Russians, we fought over the objectives with French  losses mounting against the Russians the small British rifles were lost in the woods although the French cavalry brigade did suffer something of a bloody nose, it was a mostly cagey fight as two of the commander's on mine ( the French) side as opposed to one on the allied, I also felt it was better to offer a little advice to my two colleagues but leave them to it. Eventually my daughter's boyfriend, comanding the left flank ran down a British rifle unit caught in the open and we were out of time, somewhat surprisingly when I totted up the numbers we had one by half a unit, a close run thing indeed! A fun time was had by all and good to get most of my Napoleonics on the table although I'm definitely deficient in line infantry and I'm still trying to work out how to use cavalry! Much more fun than last years but then we were all less drunk!

I can no longer sign into Google on any platform and have spent considerable time trying to rectify this but in the meantime if you do not allow anonymous commenting then I can't comment at least for the moment so apologies for that, it's especially irritating at this time of year as I'm doing the Analogue Hobbies painting challenge and am unable to comment on that either!

Next up ? More Napoleonics, I will paint something else soon but just at the moment  I've got to try and clear my desk, plus of course I'm enjoying it!

All the best 

Iain