Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

 Andy invited me over to the Aylesbury club for another Franco-Prussian bash.  This uses these https://madlemmey.blogspot.com/2019/07/black-powder-1870-stats-and.html The French VI Corps was holding 'Le Village Est Un Trou', The Prussians had the simple objective, Minor victory - get into the village. Major Victory, breakthrough and cut the French Lines of Communication. The table from the Prussian lines. Andy had rolled randomly and got the Prussians, so I was running Canrobert and the French. French deploy on 'Une Position Magnifique'. Iem Division in the centre, 3em on the left, 2em on the right while 4em reinforces the hill centre. Unfortunately, the French had not prepared and Iem Division was half-in, half-out of various built up areas and not a coherent line (and probably enjoying breakfast and the local population). Generalleutnant Albert von Barnekow brings 16th Infantry Division forwards on the Prussian left. Then Andy has an unprecidented run of blun...

FINALLY! The missing Horse Artillery battery, and a massive thank you to Leon at Pendraken for whipping the casting dwarves raw until they agreed to produce a spare Cuirassier command figure to be General Bonnemains . This completes 1st Corps in its entirity and also 7th Corps Cavalry division Ready for action Obligatory top view     Almost completed French 1st Corps (a general and a battery to add) and the other half of Bonnemains's Cuirassier Division from 7th Corps done. All in my V&B basing system for use in Black Powder. 1st Corps Cavalry, 2nd & 6th Lancers, 3rd Hussars and 11th Chasseurs a Chevel, 7th Dragoons and Gen Duhesme The dragoons did not see action in the first battles of the war, but I just had to do them They're a pretty batch Off they trot One day, they might even get to be used Mac Mahon and corps artillery assets (that need one more base of horse artillery) Top down It's almost Prussian in...

 Andy and Dave kindly invited me back to the Aylesbury Wargames Club, and after some discussion about which armies/rules to play, we came down on The Franco-Prussian War. I volunteered my 10mm troops, and Black Powder, using my stats here . When I got there, the gents had kindly set up the beautiful terrain for me, and it was nicely neutral to boot. So, the objective became to take the two road junctions. I also left my dice and tape measure at home, so thanks Dave for the lend. You will also see jelly beans acting as 'disordered' markers, so no shooting or moving while disordered. Also, it was Andy and Dave's first game with Black Powder, so I did not take many photos as were also were laughing too much!  The Prussians, played by me, 19th Division advanced quickly, coming up the road and 20th Division was swinging right of the two copses, supported by 5th Cavalry Division. My Corps artillery were on the left hand hill, whereas 20th artillery was on the rise to the right. T...