I’m doing away thanks. A tad under the weather with achy limbs and odd stuffy nose. I appreciated your kind comments very much.
On Monday I unboxed a lucky dip I had bought, recorded the figures by photos and that was about all I felt like. Here they are, some interesting pieces and restoration projects for the coming months…
We have just had our pcr test results back after taking the tests yesterday afternoon. The centre staff were so pleasant and helpful and this helped with the stress of it all. We were warned results could take 72 hours but they were back in less than 24 hours.
So I have Covid as does my middle daughter but the oldest doesn’t . So l am confined to barracks, avoiding my eldest band getting my head round it all. No idea where we got it, go out into company rarely and am very vary. Just shops locally and a cafe once a week.
A sunny day here lent itself to a wee shed rummage. With the mantra “ Buy less, bought enough,play more!” reverberating around my head in a positive way, l found what I was looking for-
These figures were sent for December 2021 and having been checked were stored away . They are 1807 uniform Swedes and were configured using the Charge , Advanced Game organisation as follows-
1 infantry regiment, 1 light infantry battalion, 1 cavalry regiment and an artillery battery.
They will comprise one army for the forthcoming Charge project. Enough to deploy on my table and sufficient for a small but tactically interesting game. Here , in case you have forgotten, is the organisation for an infantry regiment-
The next thing to do is to choose which units to use as painting reference and flag information. The plan, as it stands, is to probably get these professionally painted. I need now to work on a back story for this Swedishesque Duchy, characters and diverse plans…
I am open to suggestions for the above names, backstory and characters as ever.
The new year begins in just over twelve hours here in Tradgardland. I have never liked new year, even as a youth. My mother ( who would have been 90 on the 28th and died in her 80th year) into her seventies would always “ See in” the new year even on her own. She would sit up watching tv with a sherry and a piece of shortbread. She came from a Leith family who loved new year parties, singing round the piano and celebrating. Her mother threw open the windows at midnight and observed First Footing religiously. I have not taken after her. I will be glad to go to bed , be woken by fireworks at midnight and then sleep my way into 2022.
Anyway onto the state of the nation address aka what’s on the workbench-
When l look at a Wargames figure l tend to see it as a miniature representation of say a Napoleonic soldier in his uniform. You know what I mean !
I found it liberating and fascinating to read that Peter Young “ dressed his Electoral Army in the uniforms of the Seven Years War but we make it clear that our rules are based on the practice of the Late eighteenth century.”
I like this idea very much. Of course there are precedents like the 1730s Janissary Guard in the Saxon Army l already alluded to in a previous post. They are not Janissaries but Saxons dressed as them. A conceit, a wizard wheeze, call it what you may. It adds fun to the table top l think.
So in the spirt of this yesterday I sent off to Tradition of London for some Willie figures to represent men dressed as the Lord Admiral’s Regt of the 1660s for my Charge games. I just couldn’t resist the Brigadier’s great idea.
Here are some sources for my costume design-
