The last unit in the Saxe-Jarlsberg army complete. Brunswick IR Imhoff joins the army; along with all of the converged grenadier battalion.
Saturday, 26 July 2025
Friday, 11 July 2025
Some 28mm Additions....
Some Eureka Saxon artillerists painted as Wittenberg army cadets...
Monday, 7 July 2025
Pontoon Stuff (2)...
New wagons purchased and horses etc - prepped and ready for painting...
Two groups, one for each pontoon set to represent the pontooniers on the march...the pontooniers in action... a mix of figures, some converted ....
next job is to get them all painted ....
Sunday, 29 June 2025
Pontoon Stuff.....
Having spent three days trying to locate my pontoon bridge and wagon sets - finally found them the bridges had gone to the garage and the wagons in a small box with the most illegible label in amongst an stack of other small boxes.
So taking stock of the sets, one had some cardboard boats instead of pontoons, so I decided to make up four pontoons out of plasticard as replacements...
once finished these work out nicely with the second bridge (shown at the front - which is handmade from cardboard)
I have two of the the Reiver pontoon wagons, I may get a couple more - perhaps add some more pontoon bridge crew and horse holders.
Saturday, 21 June 2025
Some more 40mm Masters - artillery crew...
Just for the sake of completion, I've made up some masters for artillery crew
Friday, 20 June 2025
Saturday, 17 May 2025
Two more infantry regiments
1) For the forces of the Duchy of Noverre; French infantry regiment Navarre
Saturday, 26 April 2025
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
AGWA Wargames Weekend - Siege of Havana 1762
This last weekend I attended The Armchair Generals Wargamers Association (AGWA) held a large scale 18th century game at Yeovilton. A great time was had by all and many thanks to Willz Harley for organising the event.
The weekend event was a "re-fight" of the siege of Havana in 1762, with extra allied forces for both sides and with the scenarios setup so the Spanish had a chance of beating off the British invaders.
The game using a host of Spencer Smiths figures was played over 4 large tables; one table for Havana city's defences and one table each for the main coastal forts.The allied forces advance to assault the breaches in the defences...
on both days the city was taken.
Coastal Forts (1) - Puntal and Lazarro
The British had already captured the small fort of Puntal in the foreground, but the Spanish still had control of Fort Lazarro further along coast. The Spanish tried to eject the British from Puntal and push them off the beach...My lone Spanish ship exchanged broadsides with the Royal Navy...
and paid the price....
Troops landed down the coast from the fort. I managed to sink three barges and reduce the numbers of some units with artillery fire and cannon fire from the fort.
By the time the second wave landed I was withdrawing back to the fort of El Moro and the built up area behind it.
A small land attack on the fort was beaten off, the attackers withdrew
The fort came under bombardment form the British naval ships, slowly knocking out my fortress guns.
At the end of the first day's play, El Moro was still in Spanish hands, but if we'd have played on the fort would have fallen eventually.
Second wave form up on the beach, the Spanish attack has stalled...
The third wave come ashore ....threatening the Spanish flank...
As the third wave comes ashore, the British ships start to bombard the fort again, slowly knocking out the cannon...
scaling ladders up....
and into the fort ...
with the fort taken... thats when play finished on the second day; the Spanish forces were still present but we didn't have time to carry on. It would have been nice to have had time to advance the British inland and engage the Spanish.
---oXo---