Last Of The Legion

At last I have finally finished a project.....well I finished these at the end of 2015 and when I say finish I still have the generals bases to complete.

The army consists of 4 'legions' each of 3 units of Hastati, 3 units of Princepts, 1 unit of Triarii and 1 of horse.  A very good size consular army.

I am contemplating adding elephants or I could just use the ones I have in my Numidian Army.

All figures are WestWind War and Empire and they are just great.....

Happy New Year

Hello One and All

Welcome to 2016, I hope Santa was good to you and left plenty of toys and toy related goodies!  Mine are in the form of Kickstarter pledges soI dont actually get to see them until later in the year :-(

 

So what for 2016......I would like to make a resolution that I will not start a new project until I have finished the last...... IF ONLY!  If only I were that disciplined lol

But I did finish my Republican Roman army, just shy of 600 figures last year.

Painting for 2016.......

Finish off 15mm Spanish for Punic Wars

Finish off 15mm Gauls for Punic Wars

Finish off 10mm League of Augsburg, both sides

Finish off 10mm ACW, both sides

Continue 15mm Napoleonic Allies for 1812

Continue 15mm Fantasy, too many sides lol

Start 10mm SYW, Prussian, Austrian, Russian and 'Palantine'

Start 28mm Kings of War Fantasy Armies

That takes care of some of my lead/plastic pile but I do have a completely unpainted 15mm First Crusades Crusader army and a Protestant 30YW.....

But I dare say I am no different from many a wargamer out there and whole heartedly support the theory that a true gamer never finishes off  his lead mountain!

I hope to put pictures up soon of the stuff I finished off just before the New Year.  Thanks for visiting....

15mm Black Powder Napoleonics

Here are some commission pieces for a fellow club member.  Black Powder Napoleonics in 15mm, by far the best scale to use!

All the figures are Old Glory, I really do like their range and you get a bit of variety in each pack

Above are two pictures of the 'Black Brunswickers'.  These are painted for the 1815 campaign.  They are not as dark in real life as they look in the pictures.

French Line Lancers, these are based in pairs as light cavalry (a local convention at our club).  It does give a very quick way of telling the difference between lights and heavies.

And finally a large regiment of Chasseurs a Cheval de la Garde.  I thought I would make theses a large unit to give them more presence on the field.

There are a few other units that I have done in this commission but no pictures yet.  My own Napoleonic collection is the allies of the Grande Armee'.  I chose this mixed bag to give me plenty of choice both with gaming and painting!  I have completed the Baden contingent of 6 infantry battalions, 1 jager battalion, 1 cavalry regiment and 2 foot batteries, a total of 156 infantry, 8 cavalry and 2 guns and crew.  I'll post some pictures once the basing is complete.

The next major contingent will be the Westphalians......

Kings of War

A couple of weeks ago I finally got to play with some toy soldiers!  Yes I actually played a game (at PAW).  Clive,(Dwarves) and I (Uruk Hai) played our first game of Kings of War, using their newly released 2nd edition.  

But being me I had to do it slightly differently so I used my 15mm fantasy armies.

It was a 4000pt, 2000pts each side, meeting engagement, the victor being the one who broke the others army by inflicting more than 50% casualties.

For our first game we missed a couple of rules and obviously made mistakes but we had a really enjoyable game played to completion in about 3 hours.

We will be playing again. 

Now for the pictures....

The battle lines, Dwarves on the left and Uruk Hai on the right.

 The centers close.

Large Dwarf Warmachine.

The center, although the Dwarves do look to have the upper hand in numbers....

The Uruk Hai left flank, two regiments of Warg riders with a giant ready to run down the Dwarf Berserkers and storm the village.

Heavy Dwarf plate advance...

Close up of the left Uruk Hai left wing.

Warg Riders!

Uruk Hai warbands, 3 regiments and a troop of archers.

Uruk Hai pike regiment.

Uruk Hai pike and giant clash with Dwarf Shieldbreakers and Warmachine. 

The Dwarf army are Demonworld figures, they are great! The Uruk Hai are Eureka, sold in the UK by Fighting15 and the giants are GW LotR Trolls, they are a perfect size fit for 15mm figures.

Kyreanne Greek Commission

Well I have completed the ancient Kyreane Greek commission for one of the guys at the club.  I really enjoyed painting these Xyston figures.  I do love Xyston, they are fantastic sculpts and take the pigment very nicely......I don't even mind having to drill the hands for spears and glue on the shields, the final results are worth it.

In my humble opinion they are the best 15/18mm ancients on the market (although I do really like War and Empire by West Wind).

The final batch...the observant amongst you will see a lot of white shields and no basing?  I ran out of Little Big Man decals and decided to finish the basing once I was home.

One unit of Lancers, these are the only cavalry in the army.

A 12 element unit of  pike, this is a very big unit for a FOG A army.

The Generals, a CnC and 2 Sub Generals

Light Foot Javelin, one three light foot units covering bows and slings also.

The main bulk of the army, hoplites, hundreds of them!  I must admit they do look very impressive when fully deployed.

More French...I only have photos of two infantry regiments but I have painted an another two horse regiments but pictures will have to follow.

Below is Regiment Normandie, nothing special about this regiment just a sold unit.

And Regiment Crussoll, again a standard line regiment.

I still have 3 more foot and a couple of horse to complete.....I look forward to seeing all these guys on the table.

League of Augsburg, Alliance Troops

 First up is an English regiment, The Earl of Bath's Foote.  I chose this regiment as unlike most English foot they worn blue coats not red, I also used heavy pikemen, not sure if that is historical but I like the figure!

 My second English regiment, The Earl of Oxford's Horse.  This regiment was the only one in the English army equipped with cuirassier.  The history of the regiment is a little vague as to whether they ever wore the plates in battle but again I like the figures so they get a outing! Also they wore blue coats as opposed to the usual red.

The final alliance regiment in this batch is the Dutch Brancdenburg Regiment.  I believe they were recruited form the Dutch/German border and the illustartions I have seen give them an off-white or light grey coat.

To finish off the allies I have 1 more Dutch and 2 more English foot regiments plus 3 or 4 horse regiments.  That will give me 12 foot an 9 horse.