Royal Navy Landing Party

 As with the Royal Marines I finished up earlier this week, these are all old RAFM Jack Tar Miniatures. The two officers I've had since the 80s and recently stripped of their original paint job. The other sailors I picked up somewhere along the way... 

Royal Navy Officers and Sailors

Adding in the Royal Marines, that makes a pretty substantial landing party! WAY more than I need for The Silver Bayonet!? 

I actually have enough for two units in Rebels and Patriots! 

I haven't sorted out who will make up the Naval Landing Party just yet. 

For sure Captain Black will lead them (the chap on the larger base - with the Telescope). 

All of the crew and marines have actually been named (and the names painted on the backside of the bases). but I'm not going to list them all here. 

Technically, a "Special Unit" in The Silver Bayonet consists of one officer and 100 Requisition Points worth of troops, and that's it. If you want someone different for a different game, you have to dismiss one of the current group (losing all their experience) and recruit someone new. As we're not really playing "competitively" I'm saying these are ALL members of Captain Blacks crew. There ARE other crew members - but they stay on the ship and take no part in the action against supernatural entities. This is just the pool that can be drawn upon for "special unit" missions.

ALSO, technically, sailors in The Silver Bayonet are only ever armed with sword and pistol... but I clearly have a few here that are armed with muskets and blunderbusses... I'll just say they have the different weapons for the same cost. I had thought I'd call the one with the musket a "marine" - but marines have slightly different stats... So I think I'll just go with Sailor with Musket! 

I should have a small landing party of French sailors and marines finished up soon-ish. Perhaps not THIS year... but early in the new year! 

I imagine Captain Black and the officer of the French ship are being bitter rivals chasing each other around the world always trying to one-up the other - both certain that the other is trying to recruit supernatural entities to their cause and desperately trying to foil said plans, oblivious to the fact that they are both fighting a common foe! 

I need a name for this British ship. 

And the French one... 

I think they French captain will be Capitaine Leblanc...

Napoleonic Marines

 A few more things rolling off the workbench - Marines in two flavours!

Royal Marines

British Royal Marines. These are actually really, REALLY old, long out-of-production Rafm Jack Tar figures. Some I've had since the late 80s - and have stripped to repaint - and others I aquired with some box of miniature from... somewhere...? 

I dug them out to paint up for use in The Silver Bayonet as a shore party from some Royal Navy ship. Perhaps it's a ship dedicated to seeking out maritime supernatural creatures. 

Once I'd located them, I realized I had a dozen of them - which I definitely do not need for The Silver Bayonet... but a dozen DOES make a unit for Rebels and Patriots! (and possibly other bigger battle games?) so I thought I'd do them all at once. 

I do have a few Royal Navy officers to lead the unit for The Silver Bayonet and a handful of sailors to flesh out the landing party, they're almost done and I'll be posting pics of those in the next few days. 

French Marines? 

I'm not sure the French navy really had marines - in the same sense that the British did...? I know in earlier times (during the Seven Years War) there was the Compagnies Franches de la Marine or Troupes de la Marine, but I'm pretty sure they were more colonial troops for garrisoning colonial possessions, which, I think, were the purview of the French Navy, rather than infantry soldiers that fought aboard ships and formed landing parties...? I'm also not sure if they even still existed in the times of Napoleon. 

I am pretty sure these minis came in a pack that labelled them as "French Marines", though. I did, at some point, find some reference and a pictures of some napoleonic Guard troops that served at sea and looked a little like these guys...? But I don't really know if that was really a thing or how prevelant they were aboard French vessels of the time. I'm calling them French Marines for games of The Silver Bayonet. Like the Royal Marines above, they will be part of a Special Unit representing a shore party from a French Vessel and will also be joined by some French Naval officers (commanding the Special Unit) and some French Sailors. 

If anyone reading this actually KNOWS anything about French Marines or any other sort of infantry that served aboard French Naval vessels, I'd be happy to know about them! 

Finnegan and I played a game of Kill Team on Monday evening. I should have a report of that up, soon-ish.