Regiments de Clare and Aunis

And so it comes that I completed the last two bases of the Wars of the Sun King pack I ordered for the AHPC.

The final two bases of Musketeers, and to be honest, I got quit hooked on painting them, in that I will be expanding the force over the coming months and, probably more likely, years.

These two regiments are the Regiment de Clare, which was present at the battle against the League of Augsburg, and consisted of irish volunteers.  It was an auxilliary regiment reduced to batallion size after the treaty of Limerick.

I also admit I made a boo-boo, because I switched banners around.  These are the actual banners of the Piemont regiment I did a while ago, and send them into the world keeping aloft the Clare banners, mea culpa.  I misread the Baccus flagsheets, thinking it was a up towards down listing instead of a left to right one... which would have been to obvious with three names and three flags for each line x-D

The second base is the Regiment de Aunis, part of what would later become the Languedoc regiment.

I really enjoyed creating these little regiments, and with my next order at Baccus 6mm I will be ordering some more packs to expand on them and make them three base units each for starters.

This is also what I love about 6mil, I now only painted up a single pack of models, good for 4 bases (aka units) yet they already start to look like a very solid battleline as they number 96 models now. 

Regiment de Piemont

The second completed regiment for my French for "The Sun King's Wars", which seems to fall under rules for the War of the Spanish Succession, in 6mm.

The models are once again produced by Baccus 6mm, and are a great joy to paint being that tad more robust then most other brands.

The regiment fought mostly in Italy, where it suffered heavy losses at the siege of Turin, and then send to Flanders near Oudenaarde.  Here it actually fought on the side of the Picardy regiment I already finished during the AHPC.

Now, painting these little chaps is fun in that you can do a base colour, then wash them with Army Painter Strong Tone, before touching up details and use Vallejo Sky Grey for brightening the uniform jackets.

Though compared to popular belief, painting a block of 24 of these tiny fellows takes about as long as painting 5 models in 28mm for me personally, so it's not that you "fly" thorugh your army.  You just will have the look of an army very fast due to the ranks and the effect that gives on the table.

Now, I hope Baccus will start up again soonish for taking orders, because I have my triggerfinger on a lot of stuff from them, which i planned to buy at the past Crisis show but they couldn`t attend.

AHPC10: Rousell's Sandhill: Regiment 1er Picardie

And so I arrive at the last obstacle on the Path of the New Shiney, the Sandhill of Rousell.

For this hobby challenge, one needs to paint up a model with an unformed tricorne... I went for two dozen of them.

As part of my reformation to the scale of 6mm for home games, I bought these 6mm Baccus musketeers for the "Wars of the Sun King" era of gaming, and they are just perfect for this challenge project.  All unformed tricornes as far as the eye can see!  Okay, well, perhaps that is exaggerated unless you have very poor eyesight, but heck...

But based and ready for battle, the 1st Picardie regiment, one of the oldest of lil' Louis's armies, they have a long and glorious history on the battlefield and now march on the field of battle of the AHPC, in a bit to conquer the island in the name of the Roi Soleil!

And adds a nice 24x0.5 points, or 12 in simpler terms, to my tally apart from the location bonus of 30 points, totalling 42 points.

And now the way is open to the Snow Lord's Peak, all that remains to be done now is travel the island by balloon and get the five objectives!