Matakishi's Tea House
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My Napoleonic Skirmish Project
The Plan
About twelve years ago when Flintloque came out we used to have large multiplayer games using the Guernsey Foundry black powder rules. Often we would have six to eight players around the table with upwards of 150 miniatures doing battle. They were great games; fast, furious and fun.
The Napoleonic bug has bitten me again and so I'm going to recreate my old Flintloque armies using historical figures. The first of these figures have started arriving on the Tea House doorstep and are shown below.
This first set are from Front Rank Figurines except for Sharpe and Harper who come from Chiltern Miniatures. I'm sticking to groups of around 6-8 figures of each type with no doubles as each figure has his own activation card and needs to be easily identifiable without having to look under bases etc. Obviously I'm not going to disfigure my little chaps by painting numbers on them or anything like that either.
This second assortment are more of a mixed bag. The Spanish are Front Rank again but the Naval crew and Marines are from Britannia Miniatures. The ladies are old Falkenstein figures.
Here's a repesentative selection lined up so you can see the relative sizes. No problems here as far as I'm concerned.
I'm awaiting an order of some Perry Miniatures which will add a further 18 French and 6 more British Rifles. I plan to have the Front Rank Rifles as the 60th and the Perries as the 95th. I will need to order a Rifles officer and sergeant from Front Rank this month as well.
Here are the Perry figures, they're nice and big which is a relief. 2 were missing from the pack of Voltigeurs in great coats but I'm sure they'll be replaced soon. Just waiting on some cavalry and the Rifles officer from Front Rank and then I'll be all set to go.
The cavalry from Redoubt:
The final total is 105 figures, a nice manageable amount. The cost works out as follows:
Front Rank (including 3 lots of P&P because I ordered in dribs and drabs) 46 Infantry, 7 Cavalry, £74.86
Britannia (including one lot of P&P)17 Infantry, £19.80
Chiltern 2 Infantry, (with P&P) £5.45
Perry 30 Infantry (with P&P) £33.60
Total: £133.71
I found this hand built wooden ship on eBay too, not 100% right on the scale but it should look good against a quayside as scenery.
About twelve years ago when Flintloque came out we used to have large multiplayer games using the Guernsey Foundry black powder rules. Often we would have six to eight players around the table with upwards of 150 miniatures doing battle. They were great games; fast, furious and fun.
The Napoleonic bug has bitten me again and so I'm going to recreate my old Flintloque armies using historical figures. The first of these figures have started arriving on the Tea House doorstep and are shown below.
This first set are from Front Rank Figurines except for Sharpe and Harper who come from Chiltern Miniatures. I'm sticking to groups of around 6-8 figures of each type with no doubles as each figure has his own activation card and needs to be easily identifiable without having to look under bases etc. Obviously I'm not going to disfigure my little chaps by painting numbers on them or anything like that either.
This second assortment are more of a mixed bag. The Spanish are Front Rank again but the Naval crew and Marines are from Britannia Miniatures. The ladies are old Falkenstein figures.
Here's a repesentative selection lined up so you can see the relative sizes. No problems here as far as I'm concerned.
I'm awaiting an order of some Perry Miniatures which will add a further 18 French and 6 more British Rifles. I plan to have the Front Rank Rifles as the 60th and the Perries as the 95th. I will need to order a Rifles officer and sergeant from Front Rank this month as well.
Here are the Perry figures, they're nice and big which is a relief. 2 were missing from the pack of Voltigeurs in great coats but I'm sure they'll be replaced soon. Just waiting on some cavalry and the Rifles officer from Front Rank and then I'll be all set to go.
The cavalry from Redoubt:
The final total is 105 figures, a nice manageable amount. The cost works out as follows:
Front Rank (including 3 lots of P&P because I ordered in dribs and drabs) 46 Infantry, 7 Cavalry, £74.86
Britannia (including one lot of P&P)17 Infantry, £19.80
Chiltern 2 Infantry, (with P&P) £5.45
Perry 30 Infantry (with P&P) £33.60
Total: £133.71
I found this hand built wooden ship on eBay too, not 100% right on the scale but it should look good against a quayside as scenery.
