From TamsinP - 15mm Choson Korean "Irregular Cavalry" (144 points)

Are we seven weeks into the Challenge already? Doesn't time fly?

Just the one entry from me this week - some more additions for my Choson Korean army. This time I have 36 "irregular cavalry" for your pleasure.

These guys represent, I would guess, squires, merchants and the provincial minor aristocracy - basically those who could afford a horse but had little or no military training.

In FoG:AM they are classed as [Cavalry, Poor, Unprotected, Undrilled, Light Spear]. You certainly wouldn't want to throw them into combat against anyone, but they can be used to slow down enemy flanking manoeuvres or to provide rear support for other "Poor" troops.

In FoG:R they are classed as [Cavalry, Poor, Unarmoured, Bow/-/-], so cheap crap again. However, in FoG:R they are able to provide rear support to "Average" as well as "Poor" troops which makes them a little more useful. And they have bows which does give them some (very slim) chance of damaging enemies before they get turned into red mist in melee combat.

In both sets of rules you can take 0-6 bases of them, with a battle group size of 4-6 bases. For the "Righteous Army" list I'm working up for FoG:R, I'd be upgrading them to 0-12 bases classed as [Cavalry, Poor, Unarmoured, Bow*/Light Lance/-]. Same cost as the standard version, but at least they might have a chance at impact.

Painting these was a bit of a pain, mostly of my own creation. The horses were easy - it was the riders where things got complicated. Nine different over-robe colours with 4 different trim colours; 4 different saddle cloth colours and 3 cape colours. All mixed up using matrices.

Why, oh why do I keep picking irregular/non-uniform troops to paint?

The figures are all from Old Glory 15s (the Ming range rather than the Korean).

Rounding up, there are 36  15mm cavalry figures here @ 4 points each = 144 points overall.

That will put me over my original target of 1000 points (for some reason I'd been thinking I'd said 1500 points) with 6 weeks to go to the finishing line. I'm going to ease off a bit now so that I can get one gaming night a week and avoid crazy all-nighters to get stuff finished before the Saturday deadlines.

Lovely work on this mob, Tamsin. I know the various robes and trim were a bit of a hassle, but they paid off in spades in the end as the units have a wonderful motley appearance to them. May they meet a glorious end because by the looks of their stats it seems they'd get curb-stomped by a pair of octogenarian rug-sellers riding donkeys. :)

Also, congratulations on meeting your initial Challenge target! A thousand points in under seven weeks is no small achievement, well done.  I'll re-sight you in for 1300 points for your final finishing flourish.

From TamsinP - 15mm Righteous Army (194 points)

Five weeks in and here is my 8th entry for this year's Challenge.

Last week I submitted a command stand for the Righteous Army contingent of my 15mm Choson Koreans. Well, a commander needs troops to command so here are 96 Righteous Army infantry as my 8th entry.

In FoGR, the Righteous Army can either be taken as [Warriors, Unarmoured, Average, Bow*, Light Spear, -] at 5 points per base or [Warriors, Unarmoured, Poor, -, Light Spear, -] at 2 points per base. For this batch I've gone with the former - I may in future do a batch of the latter.

Getting in a little closer to each of the battle groups:

And a closer look at the command stands to show off the flags:

The figures are 15mm from Old Glory 15s; the flags are home made - after gluing onto the poles I went over the edges and washed the faces with thinned paint. For the blue and green flags I went back over the slogans with thinned red paint and a 3/0 brush as the wash had obscured them. I probably need to do the same for the orange flag.

I deliberately went for a grubby look as these chaps would have been living rough.

I make this 192 points unless Curt gives extra for the flags, which should put me back comfortably in the top 10.

These are terrific Tamisin. Such nice, clean paintwork and a very fast turnaround! Amazing. I really like the final shots of the flag waving mob (you know, that would look very cool nestled within one unit). I also really like the leaders and drummers. Question: I know you live in a London flat, so where do you store all your painted collections? You must have them squirreled-away all over the place!

194 points for you Tamsin. More than enough to place you back into the top ten. Well done!

From TamsinP - 15mm Righteous Army Command (11 Points)

After the mind-numbing and will-draining effort of painting all those 6mm Rebs, I needed a bit of a mental break so I chose to paint something quick in a different scale. Looking around what I had to hand that would do, I settled on these:

Another Righteous Army command group for my 15mm Choson Koreans. I did paint up two command stands for this portion of my Koreans last year, each with a single mounted figure. This one, having two mounted figures will be the overall command for my Righteous Army with a monk commander and a local squire or somesuch.

Some more piccies:

The figures are 15mm from Old Glory 15s; the banner is home-made (and I have gone over the white edges Dave D!). Looking at the text on it, it is probably one of the ones I produced for a refight of an Imjin War mini-campaign a few people from our club fought last March (see this post and this post).

The right face of the banner:

Top-down shot:

For the points, that will be 2 mounted and 1 foot in 15mm, giving me 10 points.

Lovely work Tamsin. After that big push with the Rebs you have every right to work on something righteous. Nice clean work and great colours.  I really like the banner. Remind me again, what system is this for?

Another eleven points for your roster Tamsin! Well done.

 

From TamsinP - 15mm Korean Righteous Army Command (11 Points)

After all those points bombs, here's a teeny tiny entry.

For my ever-expanding Choson Korean army, to use it as a certain date in FoG:R (1592-98 - the Samurai invasions of Korea) you have to take some warrior monks and some Righteous Army. The latter were a volunteer force composed of a mix of rural nobles and gentry, some monks and mostly peasants. And some regular troops from units which had fled or been destroyed. They mainly conducted guerrilla warfare against invading or occupying forces.

While I was prepping the figures for the warrior monks (which I might be taking away with me to paint over Christmas. Well, I will be taking them with me, whether or not I paint them is an entirely different matter. Oh, hang on - this post is going to be going up after Christmas isn't it? Well, you'll find out whether I did or didn't paint them if there's a post with them in today...) I noticed that I had the figures to do command stands for the warrior monks and the Righteous Army, so I prepped and primed those as well.

Just to get it out of the way and because there would only be space for all 16 bases of warrior monks and one command stand in the box I was taking away with me, I decided to paint this stand up quickly.

And then I remembered that I'd need suitable flags. A quick search of Google Images for inspiration, then some mucking about in MS Paint produced flags for the Righteous Army and the warrior monks.

A fairly basic paint job, so it will fit in with the rest of the army. Three foot figures and one mounted should give me 10 points, maybe 11 if Curt deems the flag worthy.

From Curt:Great work Tamsin and a worthy addition to your Choson army. I quite like the light blue horse harness and the flag really finishes off the stand.  Jolly good stuff!