War of the Roses (3) Knights

I haven't posted in a while but there hasn't been a let up in painting. Here are 10 knights I've painted for the Wars of the Roses. I've done 5 in blue and 5 in red. They are Perry Plastics, I really like them, but I find painting cavalry is hard work. It's the horses which are the killer for me. I've got another 14 on the sprues, but I'll have to do some slightly less grinding painting first.

 

I've also painted a couple of  WotR generals to lead my armies, They aren't meant to be any specific commanders, just generic nobles.

 

My next project is world war one in 28mm scale. This is somthing I've wanted to do since my very first non-GW models, which where some of the 1914 Renegade miniatues. Thats was over 5 years ago, and I never got more than 2 squads and a HMG each of Germans and British.

I'm now turning to late war, so I can use all the fun things like grenades, lewis guns, light morters, flamethrowers, stormtroopers and even maybe a tank. So there will be a lot more of these on the blog at some point, I'm still waiting on an order from Renegade miniatures. In the mean time I'm paiting up a few packs of Great War Minatures British I got of ebay. 

Thats how for now.

 

Some 1812 pics

So here are a few photos of a game I had using Sharpe Practice. The scenario was based on the Perfect captains John Bull scenario generator. I rolled beach Landing. There was no beach landing in my game. But basically, the US startedwith half thier force entering the table edge. The British started with 1/3 of thier force on the centre line of the table. The rest of the american force would arive when the initial troops had taken the center line (the beach in the scenario). The rest of the British arrive arrived shortly after this, in two 'waves' of a 1/3 of the army each.

 These are pictures right at the end of the game,  the 2nd wave of British reinforcements has just arrived. Unfortuantly for the Americans it was a unit of the 95th rifles and the Grenadiers of the 89th foot. 

This next picture show the US high tide. Sadly it was only two milita units, so at this point the americans fell back to the beach.

Here are the US Rifles I was painting last month, who put up a good showing in thier first battle. Next on the painting table are 6 more indians, to make the unit up to 12 warriors.

Till next time, whenever that is....

Generals and WIP rifles

So here are a few pics of my latest paintings. Two generals from perry miniatures, and two from knuckleduster miniatures.





And lastly some work in progress US Rifles also from Knuckleduster.

Crysler's Farm (sort of)

So the other weekend out came my War of 1812 stuff. Here is the result a battle using Black powder based on The Battle of Crysler's Farm in 1813.


The Deployment, The British with Light Infantry and Indians along the wall on the edge of the lane. The Americans advancing across the fields.




Deployment from the British point of view. 2 British battalions and a Canadian militia form the British 2nd Line.



The initial fight goes against the British. A Blundered order pulls the Light infantry back.


Then the Indians break after a volly from the advancing US infantry.



The Light Infantry make it back to the wall, but are defeated by a US bayonet charge.



On the right the Americans advance unaposed till they reach the 2nd line and engage the British.


More Americans joint the fight


Eventually the British battalion fails a break test.



These last two photos show, the remaining British troops pull back. But the Americans hold the field, with more troops marching up to join them

Wars of the Roses (2)

So although have a new job, which means I have less painting time, I have still been working on my WOTR project. I have come to the conclusion, that I will base my forces on the 1469-1471 Campaigns ie Barnet and Tewkesbury and other what ifs. With that in mind I have orders the relavant osprey.

Anyway freshly painted are all my men at arms, and some tudor/welsh bow and bills.

First are the Bills in Green and white




Next are the archers also in green and white, I have yet to decide whether the bow and bills will be deployed in mixed units or seperately.


And Finally two units of 10 men at arms.







Next up mercanary crossbowmen...

War of the Roses

Well, I sorta bought a box of the "perry miniatures Wars of the Roses Infantry" and a box of the "Mercenaries" as well. Mainly to be generic fantasy Humans to fight my Mantic Undead, but also for a bit of Wars of the Roses as well. I have since bought another box of infantry.

This is what I have painted so far.

You can see a group of billmen in Blue and Murry, and a group of men at arms, and some odd bowmen at the back. My Plan is to do two sides with what I have both with a unit of Bill, a unit of bow and a unit of men at arms. One side will have blue and murry livery (Edward IV/Richard III) , the other green and white (Welsh/Tudors).
That should use up about 60 of the troops leaving another 60, of which some will be crossbow men, but that's as far as I have planned.

Some Yorkist archers

The first of the Tudors

With some creative part swapping I managed to get 20 men at arms out of three boxes. These are just the first 8 painted.

All of this means My ratio of archers to men at arms is none of the bold claims of 4:1 or even 2:1 but in fact 1:2, or more truthfully Archers to Bill to MAA 1:1:1, based on an article of Miniature Wargames and the Basic impetus lists.

Yorkist Bills

Tomorrow's War

Well after reading the buzz on The miniatures page. I went on amazon and got tomorrow's war. I'm not gonna review it or anything or even talk about it much, that's been covered out there on the web, on a hundred other blogs, basically it's Force on Force in space.

Anyway this gives a use for my Shock Troops. I had painted 11, so I've painted up a few more. Here are some or the more interesting types; a Team Leader wearing a field service cap, 3 gunners with various types of laser guns and a specialist with a scanner.

Here is my platoon. I haven't painted a third squad, it won't be needed in most games.

In Tomorrow's war they are as follows:

Shock Troops
Quality: D8
Moral: D10
Confident
Normal Supply
Tech Level 2
Amour: Light (1D)

Platoon
1 HQ squad
3 Shock troop squads (I only have 2 squads painted)
1 Fire support team

HQ
Platoon Leader
Radio Operator
Shock troop squad
2 x fire teams

Fire Team
Team Leader
Grenadier or Laser gunner (AP:1 AT:1)
2 x Troopers

Fire support Team
2 x Gunners with GPMG's (AP:2)
2 x assistant gunners

But who will they fight for control on the universe?

My old Imperial Guard the 29th Witchinuka!!! (They may or may not remain the Witchinuka depends if I think of a better name. It's supposed to sound like one of those towns in the US midwest. They will remain the 29th 'cus they have XXIX painted on that flag).

Laters...