Club Painting Challenge

     At Christmas 2020, those ominous dreaded words "lock down" were uttered by the First Minister and the planned day of gaming between Christmas and the New Year was cancelled, one of our club members (may have been me!) suggested a Club painting challenge to start from 23rd December and run until 30th January 2021. 

    Being a relatively fast painter, I got my figures based, rattle cans of primer and began the challenge. I probably have two advantages over most and they are an understanding wife and not working (I know, understanding wife). 

 

    The challenge would be all Napoleonic from the Stash of doom. The grey cabinet in the center is full of unpainted figures, but only my 15mm and 28mm, 6mm and 20mm are in another cabinet. And a few of the draw contents

  15mm ACW 

15mm Napoleonic   15mm Ancients 

  28mm Medieval and these

   

    In December, I had just finish seventy plus 25mm Rohan Lord of the Ring figures, horses were not painted with Oils, but not part of the challenge.

        

    The Russians are an army I would like to finish, so, that's where I would start, lots of cavalry, I would also do some infantry that I had already primed some years ago, along with some Spanish Hussars, Guerillas  and some Old and Young Guard.

    

Never doing anything in a small way, I glued ninety 15mm horses to the painting stick and primed away. These were going to be painted in oil paints. Quite a challenge in itself.

 

At the end of each finished mini project, I would put the prepped figure of the next project, so I was seen not to be cheating. 

Through the days whilst painting the horses and waiting for them to dry, I was painting the riders and some other figures. 

26th Dec 2020. First batch of horses dried and figures. All Fantassin, except French Officers (unknown): 16 foot, 10 mounted. All 15mm,

30th Dec: 54 foot, 35 mounted All 15mm Fantassin, except French (Unknown).                     RUNNING TOTAL: 15mm - 69 foot, 45 mounted.

  

3rd Jan: 16 x 28mm Turks, 31 x 15mm mounted. All 15mm Fantassin,                                         RUNNING TOTAL:15mm - 69 foot, 76 mounted. 16 28mm

 

7th Jan:12 Foot, 35 x 15mm mounted. All 15mm Fantassin,                                                       RUNNING TOTAL:15mm - 81 foot, 111 mounted. 16 28mm   

  

12th Jan:32 x 15mm mounted. All Spanish 15mm Fantassin, Russians are Essex (I think).     RUNNING TOTAL:15mm- 81 foot, 143 mounted. 16 x 28mm

 

16th Jan:27 x foot, 6 x mounted. All 15mm Minifigs.                                                                    RUNNING TOTAL:15mm - 108 foot, 149 mounted. 16 x 28mm  

23rd Jan: 36 x foot. 15mm Fantassin. 11 x 28mm Rohan the foot and riders Horses were done already).  RUNNING TOTAL:15mm -144 foot, 149 mounted. 28mm 27 x foot

      

26th Jan:23 x foot. 15mm Fantassin, Old Glory and Minifigs.                                                    RUNNING TOTAL:15mm -167 foot, 149 mounted. 28mm 27 x foot

  

28th Jan:3 x Artillery. 12 x Cavalry (all 15mm), and 3 x 28mm LotR Royal Guard.                      RUNNING TOTAL:15mm -170 foot, 161 mounted. 28mm 30 x foot

  

30th Jan:12 x Artillery. 11 x Cavalry (all 15mm), and 9 x Infantry.                                                   

  

FINAL TOTAL:15mm -191 foot, 172 mounted. 28mm 30 x foot.

I failed on one of my personal goals of 200 Cavalry, but onward and upward, February, sees me heading for the land of Tolkien, Middle Earth and paint about 100 Men of Gondor, Rohan and Numenor. 

No doubt there will be some 15mm Napoleonics in the mix, as I rebase my 45 year Minifig Russian army.

15mm Peninsular pick-up game - Using Shako II rules

 From 2019

Roger Fought with his Napoleonic British for the first time, but his third actual game, with some Portuguese & Spanish Allies.

A game which ebbed and flowed on our flank, but just ebbed away on Harry and Dave's flank, as Harry rolled woeful dice all night!

Harry's French Flank vs Dave's Left

 

My French Left Flank vs Roger's Right

My French Dragoons charge British Light Cavalry

Meanwhile My French and Spanish Columns march on!

Roger's Center coming forward

My Dragoons bounced both Light Cavalry, but would be prone to musketry from the British on the rise!

Dave charge his Hvy Dragoons and lights and destroyed (Annihilated ) 3 French Battalions Cause a Divisional Morale on the 2nd turn!!!!

The French units destroyed

French Right

Harry charges the guns

The French Center were close to contact, French right in turmoil

The French Left squeezing the British, who were now find deployment into line difficult

Overview

Dragoons and Hussars Charge the British unite on the rise

The French right's attacks were all failing to contact and were in danger of getting cut off from the rest of the army.

The Dragoons got bounced but the Hussars destroyed a line unit outright!

The French right starting to get their battle line sorted

the French left were really putting pressure on the British line, but time was against us.

Although the French right had taken casualties, neither side had lost any Divisions or were close to breaking.