More Purchases

I have been to Halifax again - always a pleasure to burrow through the boxes of 1/72 plastic figures.  These are my purchases:

Caesar 007 - Assyrian Army

http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=842

Caesar 010 - Assyrian Cavalry

http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=943

Caesar 011 - Assyrian Chariot

http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=949

The Assyrians add to my limited army that started after the demise of the Wakefield shop.  Strange title "Assyrian Army" as it is entirely of infantry!

Also of note are the ridiculously thin chariot wheels - I cannot believe they are up to the task of carrying four crew without breaking.  Two of the model wheels were badly warped and will require pressing (if you look carefully at the PSV photo you can see the problem).

Along with my other 'chariot' armies (New Kingdom Egyptian, Sea Peoples, Medes & Trojans) they will languish for a while until I find a suitable set of rules.

My initial plan to convert the Egyptians and Trojans from Armati to Impetus have taken a jolt.  Looking at the rules for handling chariots under Impetus resulted in a headache.  Even one of the Impetus mags I read said that handling chariots was difficult under these rules.

I have played 'Pharoh Goes to War' and liked the way it handled chariots.  Problem is they were designed to use the author's Assyrians & Egyptians and have never been developed since.

Somewhere in 'Slingshot' was a short series on the usage of chariots in warfare outlining their various roles according to type and period.  Sadly I cannot find them - can anybody point me in the right direction?

Waterloo 1815 AP 035 - Roger's Rangers

http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=2047

Roger's Rangers will add to my small collection of French-Indian skirmish figures.  The fourth figure on row 3 is shooting from a semi-prone position - which to me is completely useless.  A dead figure could have been used as a marker - these 4 will go into the spares box.

Maybe - some day - I will get my hands on the BUM Roger's Rangers figures.  I live in hope!

More Kerns

These were finished just after my last post but I have had to wait for the sun.  Monday at 1700 hrs it was only 9 degrees (on the 1st June) and raining. 

Irish Kerns - Irr Ps(S) - manufacturer unknown

In the DBM match Early Imperial Roman faced off against Nabataen (or maybe Hatrene) Arabs.  It was a long and close fight with few casualties by end of play.  Next Monday promises Samurai versus Chinese.

I still have a group of WW1 East Africans waiting to be finished off - but don't hold your breath.

More Re-paints

At last the 'Normans' are finished:

3 x 3 Norman Kn(F) - some Essex, some unknown

3 x 4 Norman Sp(O) - again a mixed bunch

2 x 4 Varangian Bd(O)

2 x 3 Norman Bw(O)

2 x 4 Sp(O) - some 'Carolingians', some 'Normans'

Soon to come 'off the blocks' are the last of the Irish Kerns - Irr Ps(S) - watch this space.

Go West.....

(now who didn't think of the Village People?)



Just been west in fact - well as far as Halifax anyway.  My haul from the model shop consisted of:

Caesar - Fantasy 102 - Elves 
HaT - 8289 - Bengal Lancers
RedBox - 72067 - 17C Turkish Artillery
Imex - 535 - American Infantry
Strelets - 111 - Turkish Artillery

You can find pictures of all of these on PSR.


(1) Elves - look in the 'Features' section of PSR for Fantasy figures.  Having come across this page:

 http://combatzonechronicles.net/cozoxc/1889.htm

I was determined to find a few boxes of these warriors. 

(2)  Bengal Lancers - my first box has ended up being painted for the Tai Pin rebellion - these will be fighting the, later, Boxers.

(3)  17C Turkish Artillery - an alternative element for my Ottoman DBA-RRR army.  The other gun will probably end up in the hands of the Transylvanians.

(4)  American infantry for the Mexican-American war.  The floppy hats are peculiar to this period so I bought a box.  I passed on the Mexican infantry as I can easily convert some of my hillock of Napoleonics.  Incidentally the Mexican cavalry make good AWI horse.

(5)  Turkish artillery for the Russian Turkish War of 1877.  Re-painting these will add to my colonial Egyptian army.  Unfortunately there were no Turkish cavalry available - which is what I really wanted.

Altogether not a bad haul - when I will get around to painting them is another matter though!





      

More Rats & Lizards

Just collected two more boxes of figures - ratmen & lizardmen.  Unfortunately that means an even bigger pile of unpainted figures for me to get around to - life is cruel!

On the DBM front the fight yesterday was between Romanian Franks and Later Crusaders.  Chris was throwing plenty of sixes and Al ones.  The dice gods handed out a crushing 10-0 defeat to the Crusaders.  I couldn't cheer too much as I was a 'crusader' sub-general. 

Pitting Kn(S) against Kn(S) is either going to be a slogging match or a slaughter.  Perhaps this is historical?

On our next Monday I will be supporting on an Impetus game - maybe that will be more interesting?  

The Normans

More figures to be repainted - Normans

3 of 9 very mixed cavalrymen - 3 more like the first (but with complete spears)

9 spearmen, 1 cornicer, 1 flagman plus 1 spearman with shield on back.

6 mailed archers so likely they should be 3 to a base and not Ps

Have done a bit of research on kite shields and looked at the TMP forum for its discussion on uniformity.  Think I will give each base of spearmen the same shield design - don't know about the horsemen though.

More Figures

In the process of re-painting some figures (see last post) I also finished others:

On the left 5 x Chinese Wb(F) - Essex I believe.

On the left - "Irish Kerns" 

Don't know the manufacturer of the latter - they have oblong bases so not Essex.  According to my references Irish kerns did not have boots but went bare-legged. Some of the lesser kerns may have had bucklers but precious few.  The better off kerns had, mainly, oval shields.  So this leaves a bit of a mystery - perhaps they could be classified as Bidets but the boots are still wrong!  Any suggestions anybody?

More Irish kerns - from two different suppliers - the ones on the left are noticeably bigger.  As they are shieldless they must be intended as Ps(I).

Incidentally, there are a few Ps(S) still on the painting board.

This week I played Saga using Scots and did ok (I survived that is).  There was a DBM game going on - Wars of the Roses versus Hussites (Andy's Hussites won).  

Two weeks ago the scrap was between Early Samurai (book 3) v Tupi (book 4) with the Tupi just scraping a marginal win.  I did ask if this was a 'fantasy game' considering the geographical and temporal differences.  The reply was unprintable!