Ox cart, donkey cart and livestock

 Following on from the pillage game I've been knocking up some additional bases for livestock and assembled a warbases mdf cart, married to the donkey from the Perry Russian cart as I just want that as dressing. The ox cart was modelled on the warbase one and made from scrap mdf, resin wheels, balsa wood, ho/oo plastic wattle, wire, a leftover hinchcliffe bar and a minifigs ox Ive had for something like 47 years!

Ive put together a number of swine bases, for Plunder and also as dressing, some of the pigs are finished all in black as Iberian's to go with my Italian wars Spanish but who knows might feature in a peninsular game too?  The rest are in various versions of brown  as befits middle age swine, like the Tamworth breed. The vast majority of the pigs are toys that my sister picked up for me from French charity shops over the years, together with some of the                                   ( unfortunately no longer available) Pegasus pigs. The rest of the cattle,sheep and goats are from the Pegasus set, some donated by Des that hed already painted. Ive finished the goats so that they resemble dark age sheep, Soay sheep.

Pretty goat like Id say? 

That gives me enough cattle and livestock I think? Once Ive added them to my existing livestock?

Ive got some more Pegasus donleys, which could pull a cart or be used for Spanish artillery and a couple of oxen for some more carts.

 The carts will at least count towards Dave Stones summer of scenery.

Next up AARs or maybe some Napoleonics? Im getting a bit closer on my Ravenna war carts too!

All the best

Iain

Pontoon bridge Terrain 32 and some Bavarian chevaulegers WIP

 Here are some elderly airfix pontoons I came across in a box from the loft that I'd forgotten I had and some spare Rendra pontoons. Inspired by Aly's (relatively) recent engineering post I thought I'd build a few  pontoon bridges from them, the first one had the bridge boards from the warfayre pontoon set (it was spare as I'm using the pontoons on their carriages, so they were redundant but waste not want not!) the second set of bridge boards were scratch built from card, balsa, matchsticks and mostly the ever present coffee stirrers, mostly cut in the car!

With my 100 years war figure for scale. I think Im going to need some wider river sections!

The third set uses the spare Rendra pontoons and scratch built boards as before, I've added vertical posts with rope on them at the end of the bridges which I've seen in some illustrations and gives a bit of lift I think.

With added cavalry for scale.

Primed in Halfords brown,a bit darker than the Army painter leather brown and finished with a bit of emulsion, I think they'll do for a number of periods,  I know they're 1/72 WW2 but they're probably going to see action from at least the Great Italian Wars  onwards (mainly for the Spanish) and possibly earlier, all in glorious 28mm! 

Oh and for Chris some WIP shots of my snide Bavarian chevaulegers, Perry French post Bardin chasseurs with Victrix heads on Warlord ECW horses with portmanteas from wargames factory WAS cavalry ( very dissapointing horses, couldnt mount Austrian dragoons on them, might do as Spanish mounts or end up pulling carts!) Oh and light cavalry horse heads courtesy of Perry British light dragoons, theres a couple of warlord chasseurs/ lancer bodies in the mix  there too!

And finally, at last,I've got something done for Daves summer of scenery!

All the best 

Iain 

Valour and Fortitude Napoleonic 91

 With the new Valour and Fortitude rules we decided to have a Napoleonic battle, with the British trying to prevent the French from leaving the table, loosley based on a peninsular battle . We set up with two brigades apeace with the French advancing up the track and the British in line.

The British cavalry arrive on Des's left flank on the second turn

So in the new version of the rules the French need to reform into line before attacking the Brits, meaning theyre in musket range for a go before they can attack, not great against British disciplined musketry!

You can no longer shoot and then assault, which makes sense I think.

The order of photos got mixed up Im afraid, the whole photo upload thing was a pain in the backside, it had just been updated, which is always fun?

The infantry slugged it out, Des's cavalry appeared and we had a swirling melee that ended with most of his cavalry being eliminated, the impetious nature of the British cavalry wasnt particularily helpful for them, if they won a melee they had to attack the next unit,with an additional penalty. 

Having lost a brigade and reaching our declared end time, Des conceded,the French had also lost less units so were ahead on victory points.

The new rules worked well I thought and its just great to spend an evening pushing figures around,rolling dice and talking nonsence!

Still trying to get some terrain finished but precious little hobby time happenig at the moment!

All the best

Iain