The Producation Line

Global Recession ? what global recession.

I have recently got hold of some 25mm Old Glory Prussians and Russians to complete my Allied Force (British\Prussian\Russians) so that should keep me going for a while.

Also I have been painting some Indian War figures, some 15mm Spanish\French and soon some 1/300 Spanish.

January Gaming

Top Right-The view down the Austrian Line - Ion's fantastic Minifig Austrians.

Top Left- My Force Advances

Bottom Left- The 24th Chasseurs and Westfalian Lancers are unleashed

Bottom Right-Austrian troops move to support thier comrades

Some more games with Ion in Jan. The scenario was from the WRG Scenarios book and involved the French catching an attacking Austrian force halfway across a river. I took a big chance in concentrating everything on one bank as I wanted to see how I could handle a massive force in a compact front and also see how massed french columns would fare in assault.

Right : My final move - throwing massed columns into the mix while the Dragoons hit an austrian line.

Casualties were heavy (despite the fact an Austrian 12 pounder couldn't hit a barn door at grapeshot range over serveral turns) and I made some horrible mistakes in my setup.

My Westfalian lancers also rode to infamy by attacking an austrian square - needing 5's to hit and I rolled 3 sixes.

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Whats New

Well I have been ion beijing for a month so not a lot has happened.

But recently in a break from painting endless napoloeonics my 8th Army 20mm has risen from the ashes.

Bought some figs\vehicles from Skytrex,Brittani,SHQ and Frontline. Patched up some airfix vehciles and organised my infantry.

Pics to come.

Scenarios for wargamers

Howdy,
Been doing some great painting and some great war gaming with Ion and James. Ion very kindly lets us game at his place due to the lack of time at weekends.
Last night Ion and I played a Breakout scenario from Scenario's for war gamers - it involves an Austrian raiding force trying to get out of a territory while the locals (German Allies) rally all troops to get some retribution.

Below
Top - 24eme Chassuer arrive on the scene and survey the action - the next turn they charge the Austrian line who stayed in line and survived.......just. (some awful dice from me)
Bottom Left- The total view - Germans on all four flanks. The bulk of my force is stuck behind the bridge (river unfordable)
Bottom Right- The Westphalians take the river bank.

The game ended with an Austrian Victory as they managed to get most of their force away though I gave several units a good pasting.

More Painting

I'm getting to paint everynight which is good and quite theraputpic. Sitting in the warm painting and watching TV is quite relaxing to me.

Finally tidying up the Westphalian Guard Grenadiers and the 1eme Westphalian Cuirrassiers.
Then :

2emeSwiss and Saxe-Weimar Jager
4eme Swiss and Westpahalian Jager
Making and Painting my guns and limbers
My final lancer unit
And then tidying up everythnig else I have missed.

So all in all a good collection - 2 Grenadier, 1 Chasseur, 7 Line, 3 Light, 2 Cuirrassier, 2 Dragoon, 2 Lancer, 1 Chassuer and 4 guns.

is a campaign in the offing ?

The Wargames begin

Finally a chance to wargame midweek that is close to home.. Ive been busy as hell and as I'm off to Beijing I will have less time.

A poor pic (from my mobile) of game between James (Austrian) and myself (french) with Ion umpiring (as we were play testing some new rules). I lost the game but gave it a good crack - my plan was basically charge forward in column and not stop for anything.

My westphalian standard bearer

my 14th Cuirrassier officer painted 12 years ago