April Painting Update

As I prepare for a two game mini-campaign on the North Central Frontier in Victorian India, I have added another unit to the Haddabiera tribe who inhabit the Vale of Swat. This mini-campaign will culminate in the 2nd Annual George Carr, Sr., Victorian Colonial game at our regional convention, Bayou Wars, held in late June in New Orleans ( Bayou Wars ).


These are the venerable Ral Partha Pathan warriors. Although not readily apparent from this picture, all the warriors are armed with rifles of various types. It will join two other Haddabiera units that were painted many years ago. A fourth infantry unit, a cavalry unit, some gunners, and some mounted command figures are in the painting queue.

Dervishes Finally Finished!

After many weeks of procrastination, I finally finished the last unit of my small Victorian Colonial Dervish force - a unit of 12 mounted spearmen. Shown below with the unit leader (holding flag) and a senior mounted leader, they are venerable 25mm Ral Partha figures. As always, please click on the picture for a larger view.

My Dervish force now consists of three 20-figure infantry units, this 12-figure cavalry unit, two 4-figure gun crews (using whatever guns may be available), and two senior leaders (one mounted and one foot ), plus a prophet. Coupled with my small Beja force of two 20-figure infantry units and one 12-figure camelry unit, this will make a handy army to wreck havoc in the Soudan against the British and their Egyptian lackeys.

Of course I still have to finish with the Egyptians. And then there are the rest of the Bedouin/Berber style Arabs, and the Pathans, and more British, and an Indian lancer unit left to go. So I'm not finished with the Victorian Colonial "lead mountain" yet!

First Units for 2009

The theme year for the Jackson (MS) Wargamers will be Colonial Adventuring. It will largely be Victorian Colonial games, but we will venture into the French & Indian Wars (including some imagi-nation gaming in the Capitania General de Florida) and other areas that meet our rather lax definition of Colonialism. So there will be fewer European Seven Years War imagi-nation units depicted in 2009 and more Victorian Colonial units.


And the first are my Beja war band for conflicts in the Soudan. These are all vintage Ral Partha figures which I have had for a number of years.

This unit of 12 camelry warriors forms the mounted component of the Beja warband of Abdul Aboulboul Amir.

And this is just a few of the two 20-figure infantry bands that fight for the Amir in the Soudan against the Imperialist British and their Egyptian lackeys!