La Belle Alliance

I have been out of the game for the past couple of weeks due to illness, no blogging, no painting! In fact not very much of anything, but now I am back.

I scored this resin model of La Belle Alliance a few weeks back at the local swap meet.

After a bit of cleaning up, a quick paint job and a bit of basing and we are good to go.

Painted and based within a week but I hadn't taken the photos so it had to wait until I was feeling better.

Now to go and start catching up on the blogs.

Somewhere in Spain

Over the past few weeks my main modelling efforts have been put into making a couple more Spanish type buildings.  These, along with the other town sectors made a few years ago, will be used in the Southern Strategists demo game next weekend at Conquest.

 One of the new buildings is on a plot of land with a small barn.

New buildings in the foreground and the older town sectors in the background.

 The other is a two storied building. Both have walled yards with a gate.

 I have a bad habit of making things up as I go along.  There were no plans as such for these.
As a result I noticed several "stuff ups" after I had finished the painting. The first, and most obvious now, is the pitch of the roof. Should be much shallower than what these are. Didn't seem that bad while I was making them.

 Anyway with a trial run on Wednesday night and then the real game next weekend it is too late for any changes.

General de Brigade action

Two Napoleonic games in two days. A 20mm game last Friday week(see last post) and then another on the Saturday.

The Saturday game included Paul from Paintinglittlesoldiers, have a look on his blog for more photos, and Mark from Chasseur , another blog that is well worth a look.

 The Russian army was forming up in front of the advancing French army. Their centre was making good use of a farm.

 The remainder of the Russian force deployed on either side.

 Advancing toward the Russians was a French allied army.

 Some lucky dice from the French gun battery had the Russian light troops, in the wood, scurrying back with a bloody nose.

 The French slowly advanced on the Russian flank.

French high command.

 The Russians formed up on the far flank in time to meet the French.

 With no shortage in troops the French pressed on right across their front.

 The cavalry duel on the far flank seemed to be going the way of the French.....

 ...but the Russian artillery was in fine form and casualties were mounting rapidly on the French allies.

 With the French artillery massed in the centre of the battlefield not having the desired result it was down to the infantry to push on.

 On both sides of the farm house the French attacks were met with stiff Russian resistance.

 All along the French line the units were stopped in their tracks or forced to go back.

 It didn't help that both infantry brigades rolled badly for brigade morale.

French flank commander desperately trying to rally his troops.

 The French troops did get back under control and were readying themselves for a another attack when we called time.

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BUT THEN........

 Although the two Russian commanders had to leave at this point Chris and I (well Chris really, I was dead against such a low thing) decided to keep playing and as the Russians were not there to roll dice it was not long until we had total control of the table!

A great afternoons gaming, thanks gents.
Thanks to Chris for hosting the game and for supplying all the troops and terrain.

20mm Napoleonic action

For last Friday's game we dragged out our 20mm Napoleonic troops. These guys have been tucked up in their boxes for a while and were in need of some fresh air.

A combined Brunswick and Bavarian force were attempting to hold off an army made up of French and Saxons.

Brunswick troops awaiting the French attack.

 The Bavarians and Brunswickers were arrayed across the path of the advancing French and Saxons.

Saxon and French infantry prepare for battle.

 The Bavarian and Brunswick artillery opened fire on their enemies as soon as they were in range trying to reduce their numbers before contact.

Saxons open fire on the Brunswick infantry.

 Soon the two lines of troops met in the centre.

 The Brunswickers tried to shoot it out but with cavalry and infantry charging into them it was not looking good.

 More French and Saxon cavalry lurking on the flanks.

 Even with the help of the Bavarian artillery the attack could not be stopped. The defeated Brunswick infantry fell back past the hedge. Now the Bavarians had to stem the flow. With the cavalry blown the Saxon infantry had to carry on by themselves. The Bavarians held but it was too little too late. With night fall approaching the Brunswick and Bavarian army began to withdraw.

The last line of defence.

Miniature World, Part 2.

A few more photos from Miniature World, Vancouver Island.

 Another lovely Napoleonic display.

 A display of castles.

 A collection of WW2 aircraft. There were buttons beside this diorama that played some great sound effects!

 Pioneerville 1870.

 Below, A massive display of vehicles and figures. These are about 54mm scale.

 Old London, if I remember correctly.

 Somewhat more modern London.

 This display was absolutely huge! Thousands of figures and heaps of buildings and extras.

 It also cycled from night to day and looked pretty cool all lit up at night.

One more post of photos from here and it will have photos of a castle that any medieval wargamer would die for.