On the way down river ....

Ready for action, the Leopold heads down the river Oudear towards Ruttenhof... gun crews prepare the cannon and its detachment of river marines are on deck....

 The small boat reached Vanderhof and raised the alarm - two small river marine row boats are heading down river as well....

At Ruttenhof ...

In the Braunlandt, on the shore of the river Oudear, at Ruttenhof the locals make preparations for some sort of defence against the Begovian corsairs known to be coming up-river. Nearly all ships at the wharves have left and sought saftey up-stream at Vanderhof ...

 A couple of the militia check the warehouses are secured as best they can be ....

 barricades have been placed across the exits from the wharves and manned by the militia and locals..

[getting setup for the encounter between river galleys; had fun setting up the wharves and town area]

The Begovian corsair galley ...

The Begovian corsair galley, works it way slowly upstream on the river Oudear, heading for its next target....

Trouble down river ....

The galley Leopold is out on a short river patrol shake-down trip...

On board are King Leopold and his cousin Graf von Tiddenheim, making a surprise visit, come to see the new ship on the water, they are being shown around by Captain Bidekker.

 A small sailing boat is seen approaching from down river

 The boat pulls up by the Leopold - Bidekker talks to the crew...

   He finds out that they are on the way to Vanderhof to raise the alarm and ask for assistance - a Begovian corsair galley has bombarded the shore settlements and wharfs down stream in the Braunlandt.  Bidekker tells them to report the situation to the river flotilla HQ; the boat then left to sail on up river to get to Vanderhof.

Bidekker informs the King. He then makes to turn the galley round to take the King to safety Vanderhof, his orders are countermanded - "No time for that says the King, we must act fast - take us down river"....."We want to see this ship in action" ....

Begovian troops on the move (2) ...

As the scouts started to follow the Begovian column they had sighted, another one came into view..

behind that they could see baggage wagons and more cavalry...

[The refurbishment of two units of Begovian infantry finished, four new ones remain to be painted..]

Begovian troops on the move ...

There has been little Begovian activity near the border of Wittenberg's Zinzendorf province, some scouts have been sent across the border to locate and report on enemy movements ...

A couple of scouts in enemy territory some 20 miles south-west from the key border burgh town of Darkur, about to move on see something in the distance...

they wait ... into view comes a large body of Begovian troops...

 the scouts note down what they have seen and follow them cautiously ....

[The first batch of re-furbished & re-based Begovian infantry completed, uniformed janissaries - the two original units are joined by a new one in red]

Begovian infantry - work in progress....

Have started re-organising my 40mm Begovian army infantry, today I have been sorting out figures for command stands

 and allocating figures to bases

another 48 of the new infantry figures to cast  then onto painting, basing ....