First Game of a new Decade - Medieval

Today, six members of our usual group, plus Barry the umpire, met a Barry's place in Auckland for a medieval game loosely based on the battle of Agincourt.

As I am still unable to work out how to add comments under each image, unfortunately I will have to just put all the descriptions together below, then load the images.

The game was quite close fought in the end although the French certainly won a Pyrrhic victory, in that they completely destroyed the English army, but had very few units left on the field at the end of hostilities.

The French plan was a little bit more subtle than the original historical one, in that they advanced on both flanks as well as sending a third of their force against the English centre.

Mark, John and Paul commanded the French, while Chris, Rick and I took the English.

The images should hopefully be in this Order

Initial English dispositions
English line from behind the French starting position
The French advance commences
French knights on the right flank
French knights on the left flank
The French centre advancing
Close up of some French Knights
A Melee between English dismounted Knights and French men at arms
English centre, the archers have pulled back and French Knights have breached the defensive line
The lone unit of mounted English Knights
The French Knights close on English archers
The English Knights sandwiched between two French units
A gaping hole in the English left
Plucky English archers hold off two units of mounted Knights in close combat
But the end is nigh...the knights break the archers

AWI Collection - Box Four

Here is the final instalment of my AWI parade. For some reason, I have not recorded the identities of the various German Regiments composed of Foundry figures, although I am sure they are based on genuine units and uniforms I found online at the time.

In order below


Hessian Grenadier Regiment.....Foundry
Hessian commanders....Front Rank
Hessian Musketeer Regiment...Foundry
New York Loyalist Regiment....FR
Generic Loyalist Regiment.....FR
Gun limbers .. I have three but only photographed one...FR
Two Hessian gun crews....Foundry
A female gun crew...Eureka
A female battalion...Eureka


The latter two are not really part of the AWI collection but are definitely of a similar era...possibly intended for SYW etc...they are just a bit of fun!

AWI Collection - Box Three

Tonight, I present the contents of the third of my four boxes of American War of Independence troops. In order following this text should be:

71st Highland Regiment.....Old Glory
54th Regiment ...........Front Rank
Queens Rangers.......FR
Generic Loyalist Regiment...FR
Generals Howe and Fraser....OG
Generals Burgoyne and Cornwallis OG plus FR support
Four senior officers....FR
Mrs Loring and companion mounted...Minden Miniatures
Mrs. Loring and companion on foot...Minden.

That's it for this entry, only one more box of AWI to go and I will probably load their images over the weekend

AWI Collection - Box Two

Tonight I present the contents of my second box of AWI British and allied troops...this box being predominantly Gerrman....most of the figures are Front Rank although the unnamed battalion with buff facings are Foundry. Flags were all printed off in black and white and then hand painted from memory....it was over twenty years ago when most of these were done!

Hopefully the pictures appear in the following order....

Regtiment Hesse Hanau Erbprinz ....Front Rank
Fusilier Regiment Von Ditfurth....FR
Anhalt Zerbst Regiment....FR
Unidentified Hessians....Wargames Foundry
16th Light Dragoons....Old Glory
Four guns, the crew on the left are Hessians by Wargames Foundry, the other three are British by FR
General Clinton by Old Glory

AWI Collection-Box One

The recent discussion with my colleague Mark regarding our combined AWI Collections prompted me to pull the boxes out of their resting place in my garage and take an image of each unit.

There are a total of four boxes and given the challenges I have encountered using the iPad, I have decided to post each box separately, probably a day apart.

Below are the contents of box one...my painting style has changed a bit but I think these still look okay, despite the fact they were probably painted twenty years ago. They are almost all Front Rank figures purchased at the vast cost of NZ$1.30 each from Mark when he was running a business in Auckland producing Front Rank under license from the UK. Some of you may be aware this business eventually morphed into Flames of War, before Mark took a different path and the new company moved production off shore.

The figures should be as follows...hopefully in the correct order....

Third Foot The Buffs..Front Rank
Twenty First Foot Royal North British Fuzileers..FR
Twenty Sixth Foot ..FR
Royal Marines..FR
Forty Second Foot The Black Watch ..Old Glory
Generic Light Infantry regiment one ..FR
Generic Light Infantry regiment two..FR
Three Colonels..FR

More ladies from Eureka

Today, between reading a few chapters of a biography of Lenin I got for Christmas, doing some work in the garden and going out for coffee with my wife, I managed to fit in a couple of hours at the painting desk.

The result are these four 1920's ladies by Eureka. These are actually the second incarnation of these ladies in my collection...not sure why I felt the need to do them again, but it was fun. I have a vague idea about using them in RCW, hence three of them sport red scarves etc. The first lady I have put in a semi military cloak....khaki green with fur trim....so she may have some overtly military role in store!

Yesterday I ordered the first figures of 2020.....RCW by Copplestone, another box of plastic Portuguese infantry from Warlord, plus 9 resin lady gunslingers from Black Scorpion. The latter cost me about the same as 48 (2 boxes) of the plastic Napoleonics would have....doesn't make much sense to me either!

A New Year and some new figures

I just tried following Mark's advice and writing the blog in reverse order but as soon as I added an image, I had the same issue of being unable to scroll up to add the "previous" comments, so I guess I will just have to write everything first then add the images. Hopefully I can at least manage to have text at the start and end of the entry, with the images in between. Not sure if I can even manage to chose the order in which they appear, but I will try.

The figures completed over the last few days are the three Eureka Renaissance ladies (I painted one of them as a maid in a plain black dress though) and then a couple from their "dancing" range, that I thought would look good in any character driven games of the late nineteenth or early twentieth century...actually I was mainly thinking of RCW but unfortunately this couple is rather diminutive to go on the table alongside most of the RCW collection.

Well that failed..the photos were supposed to appear HERE, before my final comment below.....and as I suspected, they have rearranged themselves so they are not in the order in which I took them.....by the way, there are two close ups of the maid because she was my favourite to paint😊

So there we have it....not sure what order the images came out in, as I am writing this comment before loading the pictures. I hope everyone has has a great Christmas and New Year and look forward to following your painting and gaming in 2020.