For the Duchy of Fenwick...
and for the Duchy of NoverreAll figures saved from job lots of figures I bought to go in the melting pot to cast some 40mm figures; horse are plastic ones from Wargames Atlantic.
18th Century Wargaming - the ongoing saga of the conflicts between Wittenberg and neighbouring countries..
For the Duchy of Fenwick...
and for the Duchy of NoverreFinally finished reworking the cavalry regiments ... riders all repainted, horses touch-in and new bases
Horse Grenadiers (mostly my home-casts, grenadier heads off some Jacdaw figures). Flag Kronoskaf
Cavalry Regiment 4A (mostly my home-casts, officer & std bearer Eagle Miniatures). Flag Kronoskaf
Dragoon Regiment 8 (horses my home-casts, riders Irregular Miniatures) Flag Kronoskaf
All together ....
The battle of Mintano with Wittenberg V Begovia from the last Begovian War has been written up and was published in April 2024 Issue no 492 of Miniature Wargames.
Nice to have the 40mm imagi-nations armies in print. The article was a battle in itself, one of those ones which wouldn't coalesce into some semblance of order - I got there eventually.
The changeover to Hanoverian units continues ...
1) IR9B Jung-Zastrow. Figures mostly Jacdaw British 30mm, standards from Warflag
2) IR13A Halberstadt. Figures mostly Jacdaw British 30mm, with Front Rank heads, standards from Warflag
The first of the French SYW cavalry units for the Duchy of Noverre, regiment Turpin (using my own home-cast figures).
The Duchy of Fenwick is going Hanoverian ...
The Duchy of Fenwick's army has always been a melange of units. I gave them a Saxony 1730's makeover in red coats; when I added some light troops these were Hanoverian. The basing on most of the army does not match my plain green basing, so as I work through each units re-doing the bases they'll be converted to Hanoverian units.
A unit of jagers just needed the bases doing ... Freytag's jagers...
In my ongoing quest for storage space the remaining palace rooms are going 'flat-pack', to save on storage space.
I have three rooms already which are flat-pack, plus four more which are not. The large entrance hall will not save much space if flat-packed so I'll leave that be for the moment.continued from the previous post ...
continued from the previous post ...
The lady Irregulars had been investigating while Mlle Givenchy and Colonel Hofler were busy in Runtsdorf. They'd followed the robed figure back to a vineyard north of Runtsdorf called Kleinwein; owned by a poor noble family the Counts of Zandeman who resided at the small schloss nearby. On observation, they found that hunters were bringing in pelts of animals from the Sackwald forest and at the vineyard they were put in barrels for shipment elsewhere. Discreet enquiries in the area (including numerous inns and bawdy houses) gleaned the information that the whole scheme was run by the wolf chapter of the Brotherhood of Duhn.
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In the evening a message arrived at the inn for Givenchy and Hofler; 'Ready to Move on target, meet by the windmill at Maltdorf just before sunrise'. The next morning Givenchy and Hofler slipped out of the inn and headed out of town ..
They met Lisette at the windmill and followed her towards their target, the vineyard of Kleinwein...Mlle Givenchy and Colonel Hofler had arrived in Runtsdorf , to the south of the Sackwald forest, to investigate a possible resurgence of the Brethren of the Wolf. They had presented their credentials to the burgomaster, who provided them with details of recent attacks by the beast; some seemed genuine but two or three were suspect - they were persons who had taken an interest in stopping the trading of furs from illegal hunting in the Sackwald forest. They agreed to investigate these incidents and pass on what they found out to the Burgomaster....
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Mlle Givenchy and Colonel Hofler, took a stroll round Runtsdorf:
A strange robed character attracted their interest....continued from the previous post ....
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