tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60133781399365199122024-03-13T12:45:14.366+00:00ccam's miniature wargames blogxccamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17331924001531505779noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6013378139936519912.post-26077861052239526182020-08-12T16:05:00.001+01:002020-08-12T16:08:18.565+01:0010mm British Army for the Battle of Cowpens - Complete<p> Thanks to the summer holidays I've had more time to finish this army representing the British at Cowpens at a roughly 1:8 ratio.</p><p>Here are the newly finished groups of units.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilGSRUI8lpUXQhZhKQxmhHVw5lktFqfbN_RokrPc1kVmP-ygeeQie6CRptOf_FAKfnu0lkm640BMi15Cap4unkQxlcRwf6cGwk-EBoL6B6bG44hiP-xS5z9SE6N4L0RCBGHUdlh_bPRGw/s1250/generals.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="276" data-original-width="1250" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilGSRUI8lpUXQhZhKQxmhHVw5lktFqfbN_RokrPc1kVmP-ygeeQie6CRptOf_FAKfnu0lkm640BMi15Cap4unkQxlcRwf6cGwk-EBoL6B6bG44hiP-xS5z9SE6N4L0RCBGHUdlh_bPRGw/w640-h141/generals.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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The first 3 bases of the 71st Fraser's Highlanders</div>
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The 71st join the 7th Royal Fusiliers and some Legion Cavalry who have not been photographed on their own in this group shot.<br />
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I have started painting up 10mm figures for the battle of Cowpens (1781) at a figure ratio of roughly 1:8.<br />
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I have painted 24 figures to represent the approximately 180 soldiers of the 7th Royal Fusiliers.<br />
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The figures are based on 40x25mm bases using the rear 5mm for labels.<br />
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Last year I painted up troops for the Battle of Hastings.<br />
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They were used with my, then year 10, GCSE students to help them remember the armies and the battle for their history GCSE on a very simple self written grid based ruleset.<br />
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The class was VERY engaged, with each student controlling ~2 units each, determined to win the battle for their team.<br />
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Over the past few years I've been slowly gathering a collection of 10mm WW2 platoons plus supports to play Chain of Command on a pinboard, a very economical and space saving meaasure.</div>
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xccamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17331924001531505779noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6013378139936519912.post-16866661584951157062018-03-17T13:29:00.001+00:002018-03-17T13:29:02.672+00:00Starting 10mm Carthaginians<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I've not posted much in about a year, because in truth I haven't painted as much as I'd have liked.<br />
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To counter that I've recently started painting up some 10mm Carthaginians, based for Warmaster Ancients.<br />
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I won't be posting these as regularly as I have for previous projects, and I have no plans to use them to play any games, but I think logging them here will encourage me to pick up the brush a little more.<br />
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Excuse the shaky camerawork but here is the first 30 Spearmen, Elephant, a base of skirmishers and some heavy Cavalry. All 10mm Pendraken sculpts.</div>
xccamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17331924001531505779noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6013378139936519912.post-25851422254690926652017-05-09T00:54:00.002+01:002017-05-09T00:54:39.067+01:00First games of Muskets and Tomahawks<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Yesterday I travelled down to Bristol Independent Gaming to play some four player games of Muskets and Tomahawks.</div>
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None of us had played the rules before, but I think we all found them fun and fast enough moving. Our games were played at 400 points, each player with 200 points, the army lists were roughly;</div>
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<b>British:</b><br />1 Regular Officer</div>
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8 Regular Infantry</div>
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6 Tories (used as provincial Infantry) with boats</div>
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3x5 Indians</div>
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4 Indians</div>
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1 Light Infantry Officer</div>
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10 Light Infantry</div>
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(45 Figures)</div>
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2 Compagnies Franches de la Marine Officer (1 deployed as regular, 1 as Irregular)</div>
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2x10 Compagnies Franches de la Marine (deployed as regulars)</div>
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2x6 Canadian Militia (used as Compagnies Franches de la Marine scouts)</div>
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2x4 Indians</div>
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(42 Figures)</div>
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<b>Game 1</b></div>
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For our first game we rolled up Slaughter as the goal for the French and Scouting for the British. The French troops were able to advance very rapidly up to the British defensive lines, however they might have done better to have been a little cautious. Drawing their Regular cards early in the term and advancing them so far on their right flank left them vulnerable to the Indian Allies who opposed them.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">British Light Infantry fire drives back the Canadian troops.</td></tr>
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The large unit of British Light infantry, Irregulars with Regular morale (even if half the time I rolled their reaction tests as Irregulars..) had a lot of staying power against the French Irregulars and their Indian Allies outside the British blockhouse.<br /><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">British Indian Allies charge into combat with the French Firing line. If Indians ever lose combat they are extremely fragile (they would retreat on any roll but a 6 on their reaction test), but fortunately they were able to slaughter the French line for the loss of only 4 of their number.</td></tr>
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Close combat is extremely brutal in M&T, especially compared to the long rage musketry which makes up the bulk of the fighting in the battle. A unit which loses combat is unlikely to be an effective force for the remainder of the game.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Compagnies Franches de la Marine scout to the river bank whilst their Regulars man the fences in the background.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Compagnies Franches de la Marine push across the fences on their left flank as British Irregular forces clear the fields of French troops.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The British Regulars bring their muskets to bear to drive of the Marines.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Firing lines exchange shots at long range as the British troops begin to encircle the French</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">concentrated musketry forces the British to fall back from the exposed corner of the blockhouse.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alternate view of above</td></tr>
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The few remaining French units suffered badly soon after these last pictures, their morale card forcing them to make difficult reaction tests. The French threw in the towel and we agreed to have lunch before moving on to the second game.</div>
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<b>Game 2</b></div>
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In our second game we set up the terrain again, and rolled up new scenarios. We got Slaughter vs Scouting Mission again, however this time the roles were reversed. We British were to be attacking the French Civilians whilst the French attempted to scout the six 2' square table sections.</div>
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The table was split fairly centrally by a river, one side of the river holding the settlement and most of the farmland with the wild frontier of forests beyond. Predictably most of the regulars of both forces deployed in the settlement side of the board, with the regulars tending towards the forested side.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">British Regulars approach the settlement as Civilians break for the safety of the blockhouse.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The view of the British line as it advances to the settlement.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The French scouts take up positions behind a fence to try and delay the British advance.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">French Indian Allies watch the civilians make for the blockhouse. In the distance the British are coming.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">British Light Infantry take up positions behind the stone walls, using the position to take shots at the Canadian scouts approaching over open ground.on the banks of the river French and British Indians begin to trade shots, the British allies fleeing almost immediately, straight off the battlefield.</td></tr>
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The British regulars advanced stoically into the centre of the settlement, looking for the cover of the wooden fencing, taking heavy casualties on the way.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">French Regulars attempt to repulse their British counterparts. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The view from behind the settlement.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View down the centre of the table.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aerial view of the battlefield. Almost every unit is engaged in combat by this point. The British regulars who remain have made it to the cover of the fence.</td></tr>
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On the left flank the British irregular troops attempted to sweep their outnumbered French opponents away so that they could use the tree cover to get close to the French regulars.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">British Indian Allies approach the Canadian skirmishers. The one man with his musket loaded succeeds in killing an Indian, convincing the rest of them to fall back into the cover of the woods. Several turns later the Indians would manage to advance on the Canadians, killing all three.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">British Provincial troops take up positions to fire upon the French regulars on the opposite bank.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">British Light Infantry broke out of the tree cover to combat with the French Line, killing most of them in the brutal aftermath of combat. The long Marine escapes with the standard, until being shot dead.</td></tr>
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After these photos end the game took a decidedly scrappy turn. As the victorious French regulars and Irregulars from the settlement finished killing all the British Regulars, and the Officer (all of which stood resolutely to the last man behind the wooden fencing) they advanced to meet the remaining British Light Infantry, Provincials, and Indians. This was when the morale card kicked in, seeing a good 75% of the remaining troops flee from the board, including the civilians the French needed to remain on the board to win the game. The final turn began with 3 Indians and 4 Provincials on the British side against 6 Canadians and an Officer trying to protect the one remaining civilian on the map, each side hoping the others morale card would turn up first. As it happened the British Indians activated soonest, and with 3 shots were able to bring down the final Civilian.</div>
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A brutal scrap probably more fairly judged a draw, the Slaughter objective was completed with only about 3 Civilians actually killed, the rest left the table as casualties caused by panic.</div>
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A good day of games in all, and nice to finally get the FIW troops to the table.<br /><div>
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xccamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17331924001531505779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6013378139936519912.post-7322478632358663002017-04-17T20:21:00.002+01:002017-04-17T20:21:35.310+01:00Mansions of Madness (1ed and 2ed)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I've been painting the models from the Board game Mansions of Madness (both 1st and 2nd edition) in order to play with my friends recently.<br />
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I've finally finished all the pieces in the game, so here they are.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2ed Investigators</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1st Edition Figures</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2nd Edition Figures</td></tr>
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I hope you like them, and I look forward to this game hitting the table in the future.</div>
xccamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17331924001531505779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6013378139936519912.post-81966940860746368312017-01-28T10:45:00.000+00:002017-01-28T10:45:01.223+00:00January's painting - Finishing the Woodland Indians<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This January I've been painting the final figures for my 18th Century Woodland Indian force which is now finished.<br />
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This month I painted 6 Indians with bows, 12 with muskets, and a Sachem with a musket.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 6 Bow armed Indians, along with the Sachem.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Musket Indians from Redoubt, I didn't find these figures as nice to paint as the other Indians in my collection, and their heads and general body size look pretty big stood side by side the North Star and Conquest Indians.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6 North Star Musket armed Indians</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4 Forest animals to use as table clutter or Hidden Markers. White Tailed Deer only have spots as foals, I painted them on as a mistake but I like how it looks anyway.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The modest Indian force now. 3 Sachem, 6 bows, 48 muskets, 6 civilians and 6 casualties.</td></tr>
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xccamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17331924001531505779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6013378139936519912.post-65327248828244156432016-11-27T14:43:00.000+00:002016-11-27T14:43:13.467+00:00Recent games of Blucher<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I haven't posted much recently, so I think I may as well post up here the last 3 games of Blucher I played.<br />
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First up we have;<br />
Austrians vs Late French (300 points) 02/09/2016<br />
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<span style="color: #002200;">Having set up the terrain with my opponent, and successfully having won the toss to pick sides, I made the bold, brave and wise choice to defend in the scenario hoping to use the cover of a large forested area and the narrowness of the battlefield to stem the tide of French conscripts.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #002200;">The left flank, bounded by an impassable marsh and the large forest which dominated the centre was to be a stalemate of long range artillery bombardment for much of the battle largely for 2 reasons, firstly neither army wanted to march into the mouths of their enemy’s guns and secondly the generals were much too busy directing the efforts of their soldiers on the opposite flank.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Infantry staring contest.</td></tr>
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On the right flank the attacking French were much more aggressive, determined to force their way past the outskirts of the forest, unfortunately for them what opposed them were my elite Hussars and Cuirassier, more than a match for the French pansies who opposed them.<br />
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The initial clashes on that flank were rather half-hearted attempts from the Austrian cavalry, clearly already deciding how to spend the spoils they were sure to win after their certain victory over the French light horse. Despite these early reverses Austrian cavalry were able to maul the first French forays into the right flank, routing 2 units of light cavalry and overrunning 2 massed artillery batteries, although casualties were reasonably heavy for the Austrian cavalry no units were lost in their entirety.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Austrian Hussars await the oncoming French column</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Austrian Heavy Cavalry leap upon the first elements of the column to leave the safety of the woods.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Soon Austrian Cavalry have dispatched the French Light Horse and pick off the Artillery unprotected by French Squares.</td></tr>
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With the French army four tenths of the way to breaking and not a single Austrian unit having been forced to quit the field I was feeling pretty good about my position. So what if the French had managed to create a lot of pressure on my right flank and left a lot of units close to their break point? My left flank was still strong, and I could always weaken the centre to try and support the right.<br />
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On the left flank French cannon had bought a unit of Chevauleger down to a third of its starting strength but in general artillery fire between the two sides had been without major impact. It was at this point that the first French troops began to approach the hill which acted as the centre point for my Austrian battle line. Deciding that aggression is in fact the better part of valour my brave conscripts charged down the hill to engage the counterpart French conscripts, their advantage at skirmish combat made close combat seem a much safer prospect.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The French have pushed through on the right by force of numbers, and Hungarian Grenzers have been sent to try and support the Austrian Heavy Cavalry.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At this point the full table shot shows how little has changed on my left flank, although I have perhaps missed my opportunity to send the Grenadiers and other infantry here on the attack whilst my opponent dealt with moving his forces through the right.</td></tr>
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In response to the ever more rapid collapse of my right flank, and my quick approach to my break point of 8, I decided to launch my left flank of elite infantry in an attack on the French infantry who had remained idle since the first turn of the game. </div>
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The infantry charge was extraordinarily successful, at once smashing a hole in the centre of the French line behind the power of the Hungarian Grenadiers who eliminated a unit of Fresh Frenchmen in a single round of combat. Even the regular Austrian infantry seemed to be faring well against the French conscripts, buoyed up by the success of Grenadiers they took it upon themselves to bloody the French noses.</div>
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With both flanks now engaged, and both armies close to breaking point all that was left was to see who would break first.</div>
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As it happened my Austrians broke first, reaching their break point and giving me one final turn to attempt to break two units on the French right to tie the game as a mutual break. The unit of Chevauleger pasted by French artillery at the beginning of the battle now swept in and routed an exhausted unit of French conscripts which meant I had 2 units of infantry firing at some weakened cavalry and what was left of my infantry charging the battered French right. As it happened several French units were reduced to a single strength point, but unbroken resulting in a tight but deserved victory to My opponent, his army a single unit away from its own break point.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My elite Grenadiers made short work of the French infantry corps who had looked impressive, at least numerically to that point, but too little and too late.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lack of numbers resulted in my right flank falling back into the plowed fields to their rear, unable to hold any longer.</td></tr>
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At this point my army had broken and whilst my opponents was extremely bloodied, just 1 unit away from his own break point, he was victorious.<br />
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Whilst My opponent’s army consisted very heavily of conscripts and extremely average cavalry, his army contained a number of regular units who formed part of the corps opposite my cavalry corps. These units were crucial to in shielding his conscripts, who’s penalty against cavalry becomes very apparent when facing off against the strong Austrian heavies. All in all, a cracking game, nice and close but deservedly won by my opponent my opponent.<br />
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Up next is my Early French vs Peninsula British (250 points) 04/11/2016)<br />
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I won the dice off at the start of the game again, and again opted to defend, hoping that the Peninsula British penalty of forced tiny Corps would ensure organising an attack would be difficult.<br />
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From this point on it wouldn't be unfair at all to call this game a fiasco for my opponent. Played a game of Blucher, 250 points, at my local club today. My French took on a Peninsula Anglo-Allied force and I won the role to choose to be the defender. Very early on my Dragoons were able to heavily damage the British light cavalry on my left flank, combining with my Horse artillery to break 1 unit on just the second turn.<br />
On the far left a single unit of French Hussars was able to break 2 units of Spanish Light cavalry before spending the rest of the game lazily ambling round the back of the Allied army achieving nothing. Meanwhile my Polish infantry advanced on the left hand side of the central hill to oppose the 4 Spanish line units supported by 2 units of British regulars. To say that these Spaniards under performed would be underselling it, over the rest of the game they would manage to chalk up a single hit on the Poles, with the Brits only managing a handful themselves. On the right and centre the infantry remained out of skirmish range for the time being, with only the French artillery being able to fire – which they did to reasonable effect on the expensive British Regulars.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">French Cavalry batter their Anglo-Spanish opposition to take control of the hill whilst the infantry of both sides look on.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This table shot shows both armies snaking along the length of the field. At the very bottom shows the back corner of a unit of French Light Cavalry who managed to wipe out 2 units of Spanish Militia Cavalry on their own.</td></tr>
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The images of the endgame position show the shambolic end of the Anglo-Allied army, completely broken without having been able to break a single French unit, highlighted by the failure of an almost Fresh unit of British Heavy Cavalry being unable to break a unit of French artillery on just 2 strength points. By this point the Spanish Militia in the centre, anchored between the central hill and the town to their left had been completely smashed by French line who had charged them after softening them up with several turns of long range fire. On the French left the Poles had been just as successful, hammering the Spanish Regulars with skirmish fire and a charge on a weakened unit, even managing to break a unit of British Regulars.<br />
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My opponent had been hamstrung by having to attack with the cumbersome early British Corps structure, being limited to corps sizes of 4 made organizing the attack within the MO limits very difficult for him and allowed my smaller elite French army to concentrate on favourable engagements with the weak Spanish units rather than the very strong British units, which combined with the Anglo-Allied armies extremely “cool dice” meant for the extremely rare perfect sweep and a game which finished over an hour earlier in the night that normal. A very pleasing result for my French.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The British left had attempted to push on but bad dice from themselves meant they were unable to push very hard, in fact most of the French units are still in remarkably good condition for the end of a game.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Spanish infantry holding the centre have completely disintegrated, and the left has taken a lot of attrition from the Poles accurate skirmish fire.</td></tr>
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The Final game for this post is a bit of a fanciful engagement between my Austrians and my opponent's Early Prussians, for a bit of a shake up. (250 points) 25/11/2016<br />
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We rolled up an unusual battlefield, smattered with loads of urban bases, but with no elevation and only 2 areas of rough terrain, one forest stuck off to the side and a field smack in the middle of the battlefield. Our armies were very different, mine featuring a solid infantry core (mostly of which were conscripts) backed up with 2 units of Grenadiers and lots of artillery combined with a smaller cavalry contingent of elite Cuirassier and Hussars. Against this my opponent bought a smaller but very elite army, including 5 very powerful Heavy Cavalry and the Prussian Avant-Garde brigades (a unit comprised of Skirmishers, Fusiliers, and Light Cavalry). My opponent won the dice roll and chose to attack, wanting the first turn to try and get his army into a favourable position.<br />
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On my left flank I advanced into canister range of the Saxon brigades pushed in front of the expensive Prussians so that my massed artillery could begin to take effect. This they did fast, wearing through the Saxons in only a few turns of shooting. Behind this front line Austrian Grenadiers and some Conscript Landwehr began to advance in order to help overwhelm the weakened Prussian Infantry.<br />
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The centre was dominated by a tight grouping of small towns and a field, which limited the combat there. The Austrians in square there would never move again (although one unit would be wiped out completely by the artillery firing at them, although the Dragoons to their back would turn to face off against the Prussian Light cavalry who had managed to sneak through to threaten the Austrian second objective.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This area of the battlefield was extremely static. The tight cluster of villages and the plowed field combined with the Austrian squares served to almost completely separate the infantry clash on the left from the cavalry on the right.</td></tr>
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Finally, on the right flank elite Austrian cavalry found themselves in the rare situation of being outnumbered by even stronger cavalry than themselves, and facing a battery of Horse Artillery to boot. The noble (and brightly coloured) heart of the Austrian army would spend the game falling back in the face of the Prussian heavy horse.<br />
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The battle quickly spiraled out of control for my opponents Prussians from this point. His Infantry were smashed apart by a mix of infantry charges and the close range fire of my artillery batteries. His right flank was now held by a corps of 4 units with a total strength of 6, 3 of which had their backs to my Austrians, leaving the other infantry corps close to completely surrounded. Both units of expensive Avant-Garde infantry had been routed by this point and the remaining Prussian infantry were in no position to even attempt to hold off the Austrian infantry who still included 2 units of full strength Grenadiers.<br />
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On the right my cavalry had been ground down quite considerably, 1 unit lost entirely, but were still looking likely to hold up the Prussian Cavalry who were in no position to assist the Prussian Infantry and leave these half strength units to their rear. Despite their significant advantage, (the Prussian cavalry were still at strength values of 4, 7, 6, 5 and 5 {27} against my Austrians on 4, 4, 3 and 5 {16}) it looked likely my cavalry would be able to hold out for several more turns and possibly even escape off the board unrouted.<br />
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At this point my opponent threw in the towel, unwilling to watch his infantry be swallowed up by the encroaching Austrians, and seeing no way to break my army, even if he would be able to wipe out my cavalry quickly which seemed unlikely.<br />
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I recently painted up some unarmed civilians who might take to the field when I play some games involving my Native American Warband.</div>
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xccamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17331924001531505779noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6013378139936519912.post-78832850024221261902016-09-11T22:55:00.001+01:002016-09-11T22:55:20.879+01:00Finished Indian Warband<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I finished the Indian warband I've been making for gaming the FIW with Muskets and Tomahawks.<br />
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I'm quite pleased with the result in all, now I need to add some terrain and some civilians to fight over. I also need to decide on 7 of the grunts to use as "unit leaders". The rest of the unit has to stay within 1 move of the leader so I need to decide on how best to mark them out, maybe a different colour on the rim of their base?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 38 man Warband</td></tr>
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I split the Indians into 6 man units for the photos. This isn't exactly how I'll be running the army, but its a good number to photograph at a time. Hope you guys like them.</div>
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In my last post I showed my first 6 F&IW woodland Indians.<br />
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Now I'm at 29, 9 left to paint, so this is a belated progress shot of the warband, a warband I'm very happy with so far.<br />
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You might have noticed, although the image isn't perfect that there are some casualty figures among he warband. I don't have a use for them yet but I think they look pretty good, so here they are up close (alongside a sneaky uninjured guy).<br />
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xccamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17331924001531505779noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6013378139936519912.post-42944687907225289752016-06-20T23:45:00.001+01:002016-06-20T23:45:59.999+01:00Something Completely Different: French and Indian Wars Woodland Indians<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Far removed from my normal Napoleonics I've been interested in the French and Indian Wars, and to that end I've been painting up a warband of Woodland Indians.<br />
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I'm not used to painting 28mm figures, but these Perry sculpts are very nice and I think the overall effect of my first band of Indians looks quite good.<br />
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Another 30 Indians and I'll have quite the force for Muskets and Tomahawks, I may even move on to a British Force to combat them.</div>
xccamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17331924001531505779noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6013378139936519912.post-54738835200272008722016-05-15T01:09:00.000+01:002016-05-15T01:27:35.626+01:00Blucher AAR - French vs Spanish 250 Points<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I played a game of Blucher down at my local club on Friday, a pick up game between my French and my opponent's Spanish at 250 points. This was the first outing for my Cuirassiers and Polish troops, and also the first outing for my opponents Spanish army, so we were both eager for good results from these troops who had only seen action on the painting table to this point!<br />
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Both armies were I think extremely typical choices for the points bracket and conformed roughly to these lists;<br />
French (Break point 7)<br />
6 Line Infantry with attached artillery,<br />
3 Polish Infantry,<br />
1 Allied Infantry,<br />
2 Cuirassiers,<br />
3 Dragoons,<br />
2 Polish Cavalry,<br />
2 Light Cavalrty,<br />
2 Massed Artillery Units.<br />
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Spanish (Break point 10)<br />
4 Guards (1 with attached artillery),<br />
10 Regular Infantry,<br />
6 Provincial Infantry,<br />
4 Heavy Cavalry,<br />
3 Light Cavalry,<br />
2 Irregular Cavalry,<br />
2 Massed Artillery Units<br />
4 Entrenchments.<br />
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As you can see the Spanish have a considerable advantage in numbers, 31 units to 21, but have a real lack of quality to make up for it. We rolled up very few terrain pieces which resulted in a rather open battlefield, perfect for my heavy cavalry. The Spaniards chose to defend, even without the advantage of a lot of terrain, in the hopes that their large numbers of infantry behind barricades would be able to hold off the more experienced French troops.<br />
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I have a few photos of the game which show the general shake up of the battle,<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">On my French left flank my smaller corps of infantry have advanced to threaten the Spanish infantry on the left, stretched between the objective in the wood and the urban area on the right of the image. As it turned out none of these units on either side would move again for the remainder of the battle as both commanders focused their attention on the other flank and the centre. The French infantry are supported by a single unit of light cavalry just off camera to the left who have forced the Spanish infantry barely visible behind the wood into square.<br />The 3 units of hidden Spaniards behind the woods are reserve infantry who would be drawn from this position into the centre as combat escalated there.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">French Dragoons and Polish Lancers reorganise in the space to the right of the hill that dominated the centre of the battlefield having wiped out a unit of Spanish Heavy Cavalry who had been drawn in too far by their Impetuous trait. Spanish regulars and Guards warily form up into squares in order to ward off the threat posed by these shock cavalry. Unrevealed at the back right of this image were 3 Spanish Heavy Cavalry and 1 Spanish Light Cavalry sit in front of the second objective being defended by the Spaniards and 2 Militia Cavalry can be seen falling back in the face of the French Cuirassiers who are advancing on the far right.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the direct centre French and Polish infantry advance on the Spaniards lined up between the urban area and hill seen in the previous images whilst French light Cavalry and German allies lurk on the reverse side of the hill threatening to run down any Spanish infantry who might attempt to pressure the French infantry from said hill. Initial skirmish fire was rather ineffective from both sides, however eventually French superiority began to tell with significant damage being dealt to the Spanish line. The unit of French Ligne on the left of this attacking line (number 9) especially began to deal heavy damage to the unit of infantry in the barricades opposite them, routing one unit and then dealing heavy damage to the unit of Grenadiers sent to fill the gap.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Spanish Militia and Light cavalry support is not enough to worry the French cavalry between the centre and the impassable terrain which split the right flank. The French cavalry have managed to organise themselves into a threatening formation which had forced most of the Spanish infantry into defensive formations and prevented them from moving to take the pressure off of the Spanish centre.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Previously mentioned the 2 units of Cuirassiers, the cream of the French army, have been fighting off 3 units of Spanish Heavy cavalry and one of Militia cavalry and had been largely getting the better of the combat despite the wearing down of their strength. A unit of French Dragoons and a unit of Spanish Light cavalry were at this point both moving from the centre right to try and gain the upper hand on this front, however it was too late at this point for the Spanish cavalry who would soon find themselves with all of their cavalry spent and routed.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After several turns there are large gaps in the Spanish centre, both the effect of effective French skirmishing and a decisive charge by Polish infantry who had resisted a charge from Spanish Light Cavalry and then assaulted and destroyed a massed battery of Spanish guns. These Poles were however unable to extricate themselves and were soon overwhelmed by the second line of Spaniards who can be seen ready to advance into the gaps left in the front line.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the far right flank it is clear that whilst the French cavalry committed here are exhausted the Spanish cavalry wing has ceased to exist. The Spanish cavalry shown charging down and breaking the extremely weak Cuirassiers would in turn be charged in the rear by the half strength unit of French Dragoons and routed off the table, leaving the Spanish army with no ability to cover itself from the French Dragoons on the centre right who would soon be released into the space behind the Spanish line threatening a number of weakened units attempting to rally back their strength.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the centre the second line of Spanish infantry have been mostly slowed down in their advance by a unit of French infantry who had launched their own counter assault across the Spanish entrenchments. This unit of French would be routed, but not before effectively blunting the Spanish attempts to push hard through the centre. On the hill Spanish infantry took heavy casualties under assault from the German infantry and French Light cavalry but were able to maintain their foothold for the time being. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This shot shows the position at the end of the game. At the bottom it is clear exactly how little has occurred in this sector, a great number of units remaining unengaged by both sides. At the top of the screen 2 units of French Dragoons can be seen pressuring the Spanish infantry hard from the rear with the remaining Spanish Militia cavalry unable to fend them off effectively. On the hill Polish infantry have been able to dislodge the Spanish infantry who had taken up positions there.<br />
In the very centre the French infantry have been pushed back by the Spanish reserves, however Polish lancers brought in from the centre right were able to break the final unit of Spaniards required to push them over their army breaking point and bring the game to an end.</td></tr>
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In all a very enjoyable game ending with the breaking of the Spanish army and 4 French units broken towards their break point of 7. The Spanish armies inferior artillery and lack of access to any units with a bonus to ranged combat really showed in this game as they were consistently unable to make an impact on the long ranged firefight in the centre. The Spanish cavalry had attempted to isolate and break the expensive French Cuirassiers whilst they were on their on the right flank, however their lack of any shock trait and a lack of convincing dice rolls meant they were unable to really make an impact before the supporting Dragoons arrived to mop up the remainders of the Spanish cavalry contingent. As well as this the large Spanish army was unable to coordinate it all due to the restrictive nature of Blucher's command and control mechanics which meant that actually overwhelming the outnumbered French infantry was difficult.</div>
xccamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17331924001531505779noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6013378139936519912.post-89204791407310525332016-03-20T21:44:00.002+00:002016-05-06T16:51:55.337+01:00Volley! 2016 at Farnborough - March<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Today saw the Farnborough Wargames Society play host to a Blucher tournament Volley!, the follow up to November's tournament.<br />
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16 people attended plus the organizer, Lance, and I'm confident everyone had a great day out for which Lance should be congratulated!<br />
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The competition was 200 points, relatively small, so that 3 games could fit into one day of action.<br />
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I took photos of my own games as the French and also of other people's games and I hope you enjoy them!<br />
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<b><u>Game 1 - Russ's Russians</u></b><br />
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I didn't get a lot of photos of this game, and even fewer came out decent but this battle saw my French defending against my opponents numerically superior army, 25 Russian units to 17 French.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the centre of the field during the middle third of the match, French infantry and Russians stare each other down under the watchful eye of the French Dragoons.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some plucky Russian Infantry had managed to get behind my lines, and onto the objective on the hill! Fortunately my infantry were able to return and oust them from this position.</td></tr>
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This first game ended with 6 Russian units broken (break point 7) to 4 French (break point 5) in an extremely close and bloody encounter. Fortunately I was in possession of all 3 victory points and so scraped a close 16-14 victory.<br />
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<b><u>Game 2 - Ray's British</u></b><br />
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My second game featured Ray who's British army afforded me the rare opportunity to outnumber my opponent, even if only by 1 unit. I was nominally the defender in this game but the game rapidly devolved into a desperate struggle over VPs in both deployment zones.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Early on in the game the British army is pushing hard on my refused right flank with 3 quarters of it's number. My I Corps is making it's slow march towards the British troops still defending their own VP whilst light cavalry from both sides prowl the centre looking to disrupt the enemy advance.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After a few cagey turns sizing each other up the British launch into a full assault on the French positions with reasonable success. In the middle by the ploughed field a fresh unit of British infantry is wiped out in a single combat by French Dragoons, a fantastic early result for my army. to the top of the picture my I Corps continues it's long march towards the British reserves.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A couple of turns from the end of the game the situation for the French in the bottom of the image is rapidly deteriorating, but they are still able to bloody the British noses. At the top of the image the fresh I Corps are starting to take the upper hand against the outnumbered British defenders.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The finished game. The French positions has completely collapsed at the bottom, however the British have been smashed just as hard around their own Victory Point. </td></tr>
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I entered the final turn of this game with 4 broken units to only 2 British however I was able to break 3; a heavily battered unit in the ploughed fields by Dragoons, a unit of infantry in the forest holding the British VP by French Line, and a Spanish Cavalry unit with accurate long range artillery fire, to ensure I won yet another nail-biting game 16-14.<br />
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<b><u>Game 3 - Colin's Russians</u></b><br />
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In my final game of the tournament I came up against Colin's Russians, the winners of Volley! 2015. Once again I was able to secure the role as defender in the hopes of forcing Colin's larger army to come to me on my terms.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Early on in the game Colin's Cossaks signal their intent by looking to sweep by my right flank. The Hussars to the left of my line of cavalry were able to resist a charge from Colin's Cuirassiers, a great surprise but typical of my cavalry who had performed excellently all day.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Infantry stare at each other in the centre of the field, Colin's artillery having good success targeting the elite units of the French army.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My cavalry continued their great success, Dragoons and Hussars combining to wipe out the Russian Cuirassiers on the right flank, whilst also charging and destroying a unit of Russian artillery. This forced the Russian infantry to hole up into squares and halt their advance.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My cavalry returned from their charge to take up position on the hill, not willing to stay too close to the Russian ranged fire or the still remaining fresh Cuirassiers in the centre. Colin's infantry in this time took the opportunity to advance against the French infantry.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I don't have any photos between the last one, and this final shot of the game. The Russian Cuirassiers and Cossacks had got together to smash my weakened cavalry on the right flank and the Russian Guards had smashed a hole in the French centre.</td></tr>
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This game was far from decided when time was called at the end of the day, the situation on the right flank was becoming quite desperate for my cavalry who were being worn down by the quality of the Russian Cuirassiers and the numbers of the Cossacks. Despite this the Russian Guards had lost their impetus at this point and most of the Russian Infantry which remained in the centre were Militia and regulars with strengths of 2 and 3 ready to be broken by my fresh I Corps entering the fray from the left.<br />
As it was we finished the game with 2 units broken apiece and a score of 15-15, a very close fought game!<br />
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<b><u>Other Games</u></b><br />
During the day both myself and Lance were able to take some photos of games other than my own which were in play so I will upload those as well and hopefully labeled correctly;<br />
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<u>Round 1</u><br />
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<u>Round 2</u><br />
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<u>Round 3</u><br />
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<b><u>Summary</u></b><br />
With that we reach the end of the images taken during the day from me. My French managed a respectable mid table position with a respectable brace of close fought really fun games. I'd really like to thank Lance for organizing the event, and my opponents who made all three of the games both very interesting and a load of fun to play.</div>
xccamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17331924001531505779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6013378139936519912.post-51584797047146825832016-02-17T17:16:00.001+00:002016-02-17T17:16:29.145+00:00250 Point Blucher Battle Report - Austrians vs French<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Last Friday I played a 250 point game of Blucher, my French vs Austrians. My mostly veteran French army was significantly outnumbered by it's Austrian counterpart which was comprised mostly of conscripts with a core of elite troops.</div>
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Break points for the 2 armies were 6 for my French and 8 for the Austrians.</div>
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The deployment in the centre of the field, the Austrians are deployed in three large chunks whilst my French are deployed mostly in a long line with 2 small groups of mobile reserves.</div>
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The Austrian first thrust is sent between the urban areas and the forest and is met by French cavalry and allied German Infantry. Horse Artillery also closes in to punish the Austrian infantry who faced with cavalry will have to form square.</div>
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Whilst more Austrian Infantry move up on the other side of the urban area to engage the main French line the Austrians in the gap are pushed back, but not without dealing heavy damage to the French Chevaux-Legers.</div>
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The very central advance of Austrians has got in range of the main French line now, the French have much better of the initial skirmishes due to their supremacy in this department.</div>
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In the background the right flank of the Austrian army prepares to swing in on the French left flank, threatening to stretch the limits of the smaller French army. In the foreground the French continue to take their toll on the Austrians at close range.</div>
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On the other flank a stalemate begins which would remain largely unchanged for the rest of the game, mostly featuring long range bombardments of artillery.</div>
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The Austrian right flank finally lands on the French left, Austrian Cuirassiers trading blows with the French Dragoons but the Austrian Chevaux-Legers fare much worse, being repulsed with heavy losses.</div>
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An overview of the battle at this key point, the disparity in the number of Austrian Infantry is apparent, but at this point 3 Austrian units have been broken to 0 French. Austrian numbers are going to need to start making a large dent in the French lines soon in order to take back control of the game.</div>
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The battle towards the right flank continues at a slightly lower ebb, with heavily weakened units from both armies falling back towards the rear .</div>
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The far right objective remains under no pressure. These units would be far more useful in the centre for the French than for the Austrians.</div>
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French units slowly try to move behind the line to reinforce the heavily outnumbered left flank.</div>
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The Austrian General looks on at the cavalry stalemate in the gap, both sides are extremely thinned out by this point.</div>
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Austrian Cuirassiers have dislodged the French cannon on the hill, forcing the French reinforcements behind the ridge into immobile squares. The elite infantry on the French left would continue to punish the Austrian infantry, but now had no hope of reinforcement. </div>
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By this point the right flank Austrian cavalry have been replused, 2 Cuirassier units, one Chevaux-Legers routed, and 1 light Hussars reduced to 1 strength point for the loss of 2 French Dragoons and 1 French Chevaux-Legers, 1 unit of French Dragoons was able to break into the Austrian rear lines, threatening weakened infantry who had been moved out of the action. </div>
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towards the end of the battle the Austrian attack in the French centre had finally collapsed the entire lot. By this point the French Break point of 6 has been reached, with the help of some Austrian Cavalry on their left flank finally breaking the deadlock to rout some weak French artillery.</div>
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The French had one last chance to force a mutual break, but were stopped short at 7 Austrian units, with the Dragoons which can be seen in the backfield routing a very weak unit of infantry.</div>
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Austrian Losses came in at; 2 Cuirassiers, 1 Chevaux-Legers, 2 Veteran Infantry, 1 Conscript Infantry, and a massed battery of Heavy Guns (7/8).</div>
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French Losses were; 2 Dragoons, 1 Chevaux-Legers, 1 Line Infantry, 1 Allied Infantry, and a massed battery of Medium Guns (6/6).</div>
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Overall the game was extremely close, a 14/16 loss for my French boys under the clubs scoring rules, and could have gone either way up until the very end where my opponent managed to prevent my reinforcements from reaching the left flank whilst also keeping the pressure up so that the units trapped there could not simply get away from danger.</div>
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As I said when I posted my 200 points of French, my next task was 200 points of Austrians to match them an now here they are.<br />
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I really do love how colourful the Austrian Hussars are especially.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Army.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I Corps - 4 German Infantry, 1 Conscript Grenzer, 2 Artillery.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">II Corps - 4 German Infantry, 1 Conscript Grenzer, 1 Artillery and 1 Cheveax Leger.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">III Corps (Cavalry) - 1 Cuirassier, 4 Hussars.</td></tr>
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The plan is to add on another 100 points to both the French and Austrian armies in time, but I haven't decided what the make up of this will be yet.</div>
xccamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17331924001531505779noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6013378139936519912.post-76256830431412489262015-12-28T14:27:00.001+00:002015-12-28T14:27:19.305+00:006mm French - 200 Point Blucher Army<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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After pausing for Christmas and Boxing day I've completed my French 6mm army up to 200 points in the Blucher rules. I will be of course making this army bigger than it is, but first I will be doing 200 points of Austrians.<br />
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This has been my first foray into 6mm as a scale, using Baccus 6mm figures, and I'm really pleased with how quickly painting the figures is and I really like how they look all based up.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Army so far.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I Corps: 1 Elite Infantry, 3 Line Infantry and 1 Foot Artillery.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">II Corps: 1 Elite Allied Infantry, 1 Elite Infantry, 2 Line Infantry, 1 Allied Infantry, and 1 Light Cavalry (Hussars).</td></tr>
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The army is in fact the same as the list I have been using in 10mm just for ease of use and because I have found it fun to play. I will be adding more units up to 250 and then probably 300 points which should distinguish it.<br />
I'm really pleased with how these have turned out, and in only just over a week.<br />
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Next, on to the Austrians!</div>
xccamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17331924001531505779noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6013378139936519912.post-90685870659142620392015-12-20T01:14:00.001+00:002015-12-20T01:14:36.844+00:006mm Beginnings - French Elite Infantry <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I recently received my first orders from Baccus 6mm for my French and Austrian armies. I plan on using these to play Blucher at my local club. The units will be based on 60mmx30mm bases like my 10mm figures. </div>
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The contents of the delivery will enable me to create 2 reasonable sized armies for the Blucher rules.<br />
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So far I've painted up 3 units of infantry (2 elite infantry, and 1 elite allied infantry in Blucher terms) and I'm very pleased with how they look combined with the basing.</div>
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Today I attended a Blucher tournament at my local wargames club and I took a bunch of photos. I played as Peninsula French, and had a great time.<br />
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<b>Game 1: </b><br />
In game 1 I was attacking my Ottoman opponent. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">My opponent has set up with all his infantry, artillery and his 2 objectives behind a river. His masses of cavalry are set up in the top right. I wan't confident in attacking across the river, so I deployed to try and wipe his cavalry, if I could break them his army would probably reach it's break point.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Large numbers of Turkish and French cavalry would engage around the forest on the right flank, but it would remain fairly indecisive.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">My dragoons have fallen back after heavy combat with the now much dispersed Ottoman cavalry and reform behind reinforcing Badenese Infantry in squares, and fresh Westfalian Chevaux-Legers. On the far right Turkish cavalry remain immobile in front of a line of French infantry, neither wanting to advance upon the other.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">At the end of the game the fighting has been very inconclusive. Sporadic infantry fighting across the bridge and all the cavalry fighting on the right actually resulted in 0 broken units on either side when the time was up. The result is a draw, with a slight advantage for my opponent holding more objectives, which he began with for rolling the defender.</span></td></tr>
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<b>Game 2:</b></div>
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In my second game I was matched up against against the Hundred Days British, and rolled to defend. This was an extremely short match and so I only have 2 images.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The centre of the map is dominated early on by my dragoons, preventing the British advancing off their hill.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The only other image of the battle shows 2 British corps stuck between my 2 main corps. The fighting was fierce, but at the end of the fighting 5 British units had been routed to 2 French, and the British army had broken. A convincing win for the boys in blue.</span></td></tr>
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<b>Game 3:</b></div>
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In my third and final game of the day I faced a very different British army. This one was from the Peninsula and so featured a number of Spanish and Portuguese allied units. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">On the left flank I have a corps of Infantry deployed forwards of one of my objectives in order to defend from the hill. My opponents Heavy Dragoons have forced my leftmost infantry into squares but my own Dragoons are forcing the British infantry in the centre into their own squares, both sides would be punished by artillery for this.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">On the right flank I have taken the role of defender slightly more liberally and am pressuring hard. I am pretty sure forcing my opponent to spend his precious momentum points dealing with this flank made defending my left far easier.My Dragoons and horse artillery continue to dominate the centre, forcing any attack to halt.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">My Dragoons here have charged in to destroy a weakened battery of Heavy Artillery in the centre (already removed). A unit of British Infantry have already been broken by the Horse Artillery in the centre, whilst my foot guns on the hill deal heavy damage to the Brits forced into square to their front.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Several turns later 3 of my Dragoons have moved to support my right flank infantry. The allied Spanish and Portuguese cavalry have been moving back behind the infantry squared unable to stand up to the French cavalry. This has allowed me to reorganise the infantry who had been taking punishment from British musketry.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Towards the end of the game the French left flank is thinning out, but the Heavy Dragoons remain wary to advance into squares and musketry. By this point artillery is too exhausted to really threaten the squares, and so attacking will have to be by brute force.</span></td></tr>
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At the end of play I won an Arc of Fire marker for coming 3rd out of the French commanders. I had thought there were 14 participants, though on retrospect their may only have been 12, and I think we all had a great time. Lance did a great job hosting the event, and though I felt the rules were fairly advantaged for the defending player I don't think it affected the enjoyment of the games at all.</div>
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xccamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17331924001531505779noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6013378139936519912.post-54335338636967285092015-11-05T14:12:00.000+00:002015-11-05T14:12:52.583+00:00The Finished Brits - The completion of all 3 armies.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Having now finished the final army at Talavera, the British, the project as planned lies completed.<div>
In the future I may make a game board/the relevant terrain for the battle and maybe even get some friends together to play it, but for now this is all. Unfortunately all my units have their Kings and Regimental colours the wrong way round, this was an error I realised early but I decided that uniformity would be best, maybe I will fix them at some point.</div>
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I'll post some pictures of the British, and a few where I've laid all the troops out on my bed, which is the only space of roughly the right size for the game that I have currently. Coming in at a little under 1.5k troops, I really like how the whole thing looks.</div>
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Thank you for reading, if you want to see the French army click <a href="http://xccamminiatures.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/the-finished-army.html">here</a> and for the Spanish click <a href="http://xccamminiatures.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/the-army-of-estremadura.html">here</a>.</div>
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In the past couple of weeks I haven't been able to get that much painting done, but I have crept over the 50% line for the British. This is probably the last real milestone before the final completion of the British army, and unless I decide to make a terrain board, for the whole Talavera project, except for playing the battle of course.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Half the British army at Talavera. Much smaller than the French and Spanish Contingents!</td></tr>
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xccamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17331924001531505779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6013378139936519912.post-12642130543107591652015-09-15T16:42:00.001+01:002015-09-15T16:42:39.897+01:00A start on the British, Talavera, and the first Test of my Troops.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
To start this one off I have finally made a start on possibly the last great milestone of the armies at Talavera de la Reina, my British army. Not wanting to ignore the new Pendraken sculpts my army shall therefore be half belgic and half stovepipe as Shakos are concerned. If/when Pendraken get around to doing some Stovepiped boys I plan to get some to fix that, but I'm not that worried frankly as most people wont notice at 10mm.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Only some Line Infantry and Light Dragoons so far, but the start of Wellingtons tidy little army I hope.</td></tr>
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I have finished the base I plan to use as the main part of Talavera on the game board, and I'm very happy with how the 3mm buildings from Supreme Littleness have come up.<br />
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On friday I attended my local wargames society for the first time and played a game of Blucher with some of my French against my opponent's 6mm Russians (I am aware crossing scales is heresy for some people but frankly it was hardly an issue at all, and not that noticeable whilst playing our opinions).<br />
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My army was forced to attack and my experienced opponent thrashed my in experienced blundering first game with the rules. It was however good fun and I hope to attend again soon. Hopefully acquitting myself better in future.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My left flank, outmaneuvered and stranded. Transfixed by cossacks to their flanks they were unable to assist my beleaguered centre.</td></tr>
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xccamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17331924001531505779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6013378139936519912.post-38920819438257526832015-09-10T11:14:00.000+01:002015-09-10T11:14:00.733+01:00Building a town: Waiting for the British<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I haven't updated the blog in a long time, but I've now finished my Masters degree program so I've more free time to dedicate to looking for jobs and the Talavera project of mine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm expecting deliveries from MM and Pendraken of British soldiers in the next couple of days, so there's nothing to update on that front yet, but I have been using the 3mm buildings I bought from Michael at SupremeLittleness in order to create a Talavera base. <span style="background-color: white;">and I'm really happy with the amount of buildings I can get on my base to represent Talavera whilst still having space to show a garrisoning unit. The space for a unit base will look like the town square, or something equally appropriate, when the town is not garrisoned.</span></span></div>
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