The King is briefed on the current situation

(my generic palace interior room, gets a new setup and some high ranking visitors)

The King, Count Munster and his secretary leave the royal appartments and cross the great hall. On his way through the King pauses to ask Brother James to supervise the packing and storage of the books in the library (which is about to be refurbished).

The King makes his way to the meeting room via the short gallery ...

The king arrives in the meeting room, the general staff have the maps laid out ready,

The briefing begins ..

General Brendinski: Welcome Your Majesty, we will bring you up to date on the current situation.

King Leopold: Firstly I want to know the status of the mobilisation of the army.

General Brendinski: The Boldavian army corps is fully mobilized and they are in their forward positions in Upper Belgravia. The Wittenland corps is continuing to muster, no more units are ready for action than last month. Guard Corps - only the Gardes Suisses are ready. We are being hampered by a shortage of cavalry mounts for the heavy cavalry - it would appear they are being bought up in large numbers by Prussia, Gallia and the Imperium.

King Leopold: What about the Monrovian army ?

Count Herman Munster: From our intelligence it would appear that only their Army of the East in mobilized and in position in Lower Belgravia; their Army of the North has not yet started to muster. They seem to have moved some troops from their Army of the West towards their south-west border - they seem to be making threatening moves towards Verre, Else and Noverre in an attempt to get them to sign treaties of alliance.

King Leopold: What about the Saxe-Jarlsberg border disturbances ?

General von Alpneck: Their have been a number of tit-for-tat raids across the border; so far Saxe-Jarlsberg seem to have the advantage. Troops in the border region are commanded by General Waldebeck and he has asked for re-inforcements. We are arranging for the rest of the Boritzy Freikorps to move south and also some regular troops as well. The Kings Jager Company was dispatched last week and has already helped with the destruction of one of the larger bands of brigands in the area.

King Leopold: Thankyou gentlemen, I have pressing business to attend to. A new consignment of hats for my collection has arrived and they need cataloguing.

Brigands !

A little solo game using 40mm figs. The supply train encounters brigands on the way south ....

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The supply train leaves Rottenhausen (after spending the night there); they are halfway to Vanderhof ...

They make good progress and start to slow up a bit as the day goes on ...

Brigands ! shouts the supply train commander, form up !

The garrison troops form a hasty line to protect the supply train from the brigands who are nearly upon them ...

The two sides exchange fire and a few are hit on both sides. Things are looking tricky for the supply train ....

What, who's this - its the Kings Jager company commanded by Captain Scharfe. They have been traking the progress of the supply train and looking out for an attack by brigands, they emerge from the woods ....

The accurate fire of the Jagers fell many of the nearby brigands....

The brigands attacking the supply column realise the danger they are in and start to turn ...

The brigands having suffered heavy casualties make a run for it ....

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Afterwards ..

The Kings Jager company follow up and pick a few more brigands off , then return to escort the supply train to Vanderhof.

40mm: Supply Train for Vanderhof

A supply train leaves regularly from Ottenheim for Vanderhof. Here we see it on route, it is protected by a company of garrison troops and some jagers.

A closeup look at the pack mules and horses (these are the ones I converted from some toy horses and donkeys - http://tidders-kingdomofwittenberg.blogspot.com/2009/08/40mm-pack-ponies-and-mules-conversion.html).

Wittenberg Legion - Cavlry Regiment

The commander of the Duchy of Fenwick's Wittenberg Legion arrives to inspect the newly raised cavalry regiment ...

A view of the whole regiment ...

[figs: Cavalry Regiment - Dixons SYW prussian dragoons; officers Front Rank]

Palace Interior (4) - The 'Short' Gallery

My 'generic' interior room is now finished, here it is as the short gallery. Clock, picture frames and carpet are from Dolls House suppliers; furniture is from the pack I recently bought.

The Duke and Duchess or Fenwick are visiting again and have gone to see the newly refurbished 'short' gallery. They admire the two recently acquired paintings by Poussin.

They engage in a conversation with a two of the Queen's ladies in waiting about how nice the short gallery is now ...

they then look up to enjoy the newly finished painting on the ceiling by Tiepolo ...

[art pictures downloaded from http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTH18thcentury.html#18century]

Palace Garden - a little addition

I had some balustrade pieces in the 'minibrix' I bought a while back and was about to throw them out when I realised they would make a nice improvement to the garden of my palace diorama. The garden with balustrade pieces added:

Lawless times in the south of Upper Belgravia

The south of Upper Belgravia is plagued by highwaymen, they sometimes carry out their nefarious activities further north and also in the province of Boldovia.

Hand over your money !

Another problem is smugglers on the river Oudear, moving goods across the river to avoid duty on both sides of the border...

Hurry up and get this stuff unloaded before the River Marines get here

[figs: Mix of manufacturers; mostly Foundry with some from Blue Moon; the mounted highwaymen are from Outpost Wargames Services]