My first time here as a challenge participant and my first submission. As a newbie I thought I'd just add a brief introduction. I'm an historical wargamer, mainly in 15mm. I play once a week with a group of friends in Sunny North Devon in the UK, and we fight historical battles, as opposed to made up scenarios.
I'm hoping to make a dent in the lead pile by taking part, but also want to try and complete the side challenge 'Divine Comedy' for fun. As an historical gamer this is a little trickier, but I think I have plans for all the sections with some cunning thinking.
My first entry here is for the First Circle: Limbo. I apologise in advance, as they aren't the most exciting subject.
I have been playing some Hungarian revolution (1848-1849) battles and have picked up various figures to bolster the forces. I was short of limbers and managed to pick up a bunch cheaply. They needed some wheels and a shed full of horses, so I've dug deep in the spares box as well as purchasing some used ones. I've also picked up some new horses from Irregular miniatures.
Some of the limbers I have painted in green to be used for my Russian Civil war troops as they are short of limbers Comrade.
In the pictures are 32 limbers, 128 horses and 30 riders, HOWEVER, I have only painted 54 horses and 29 limbers. The rest were already painted, and just needed some touch up work and basing.
So I'm only claiming for:-
15mm horses x 54 @2 points = 108 pts
15mm limber x 29 @2points ?? = 58 pts
Limbo bonus = 20 pts
Total points = 186 215pts
I will work on the photography and hopefully some of my other entries will be a bit more exciting than these rather dull limbers.
Good luck all of you and I look forward to seeing what everyone paints.
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First, welcome to the Challenge Adam, it's terrific to have you join us this year!
Nothing wrong with an artillery park as your debut post. ;) That is a tremendous amount of teams and limbers, but then again artillery takes up a significant amount of space on the battlefield and what better way to illustrate that but with scads of limbers, teams and caissons. Well done! I look forward to see what else you have for us over the next few months.
We'll score the limbers at 3 points each which will increase your total to 215 points. A very tidy sum for you opening volley!
- Curt