First foray into Black Powder

Got down to the club for the first time in a few weeks, taking my copy of Black Powder and some AWI figures.

I set up a small scenario, a sort of cut-down Camden, to try out the rules with Phil and Martin. Unit stats were cobbled together and based mainly on the Freeman's Farm scenario in the rulebook.

Overall the game played quickly and smoothly, although with inevitable delays for looking things up in the rulebook. I think that these are the way forward for my AWI gaming and look forward to having another bash next week.

First thoughts for revising unit stats are to hinder the H-to-H ability of american rifle units and find further ways to hamstring the militia!

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Beavering away

Still here, but busily painting a unit of British napoleonic infantry and photographing each step for an article on the Baccus website.

Hoping to have a game of Black Powder at the club on Wednesday, using my 28mm AWI collection

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Allied army additions

Here are the latest additions to the Waterloo project, at long last.

First is Pack's brigade, containing some fine highlanders of the Black Watch, supported by the Royal Scots.
Here is a closer shot, showing my attempts to paint tartan on the kilts.

Second base is one of Hanoverian Landwehr. The flags are somewhat conjectural and/or simplified. The figures are british in stovepipe for the rank-and-file, with british in belgic shako for the officer and standard bearer

here is a shot of the massed ranks from the rear:

The British have been strengthened by adding the Scots Greys. I have attempted to capture the essence of Lady Butler's painting, so they are not as closely ranked as I normally base cavalry. They should stand out on the battlefield.

Here is the player's eye view (i.e.the rear of the unit)

I have also finished off the Dutch Belgian Heavy Cavalry Division with the additon of the Dutch Carabiniers (using SYW Prussian figures):

and from the side to show some extra detail:

Lastly, the Brunswick cavalry brigade - hussars and uhlans. The former are british hussar figures in shako and the latter are austrian uhlan figures:

I'll start the next batch tomorrow!

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Basing up

Hurrah! My Baccus order arrived the other day so I was able to complete my first Hanoverian landwehr.

Tonight I have based up the following:
Halkett's Hanoverian brigade
Pack's British brigade
The Scots Greys
The Dutch carabiniers
The Brunswich Cavalry brigade

Tomorrow I'll begin basing Phil's Russians (batch 2) and start painting the basework on today's stuff.

Next for the big black undercoat brush are some British commanders...

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Progress report

No photos yet as I'm holding back on basing until I have enough stuff for a little production line (including some more Russians for Phil). So far I have finished the figures for Pack's brigade, the Brunswick cavalry brigade and the 1st & 3rd DB Carabiniers.

Next up is a brigade of hanoverian landwehr, for these I am using British infantry in stovepipe shako, but British in belgic shako for command figures (if the post office ever deliver them!).

No painting tommorrow though, I'm off to Cadburyworld

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Painting re-starts

Hurrah. I actually managed to get an hours painting done last night. I returned to the 6mm napoleonic British and got a battalion half-painted. Might get them finished tonight before turning to the Black Watch.

At some point soon I'll do a step-by-step on the waterloo british for Pete Berry's Baccus site. This will slow the painting a bit, but should be worth doing in the end.

I'm also keen to paint up some Dutch Belgians soon too.

Should get in a game at the club last night to test those early C20th rules I'm working on.

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Still here!!

Progress has been slow!

Work has be a bit intense since August and I have been battling an eye infection that would not go away.

My eye now feels a lot better and a couple of work things have been resolved. I also passed my Psychiatric Pharmacy Diploma so I can havea short breather from studying too.

Hopefully I'll get a bit of painting done this weekend and I can get back to all that re-basing I had planned too.

I have been working on my interwar rules in the last few weeks and am more convinced that I have the basis of a good infantry game, that now needs some vehicle rules adding on.

cheers all!