Perry Miniatures Carlist War Generals

In preparation for our Carlist Wars game on Sunday I thought I had better finish off some generals. The game will be around 20 battalions per side plus guns and horse so will need a minimum of 6 generals per side so these latest should come in handy.


I have finished off 4 command bases. One Carlist and 3 liberal. First of all apologies, hardly action shots, taken on a blanket in the spare room! Still you get the idea.


First up is a Carlist officer. This is the second use of this figure, the first time I added him to my Battalion of Navarese Guides, giving him a red beret and grey coat. Most of my officers have red berets so a white one makes a colourful change.

The next officer is a Liberal. starting life as the British General De Lancy Evans, no modifications here just a slightly different paint job to the British General. I like how the dappled grey has come out.

 Thirdly another liberal, this chap I already have as a staff officer in grey trousers, I think he makes an excellent generic mounted officer.

 Lastl is a two figure command base. Both of these are Foundry Napoleonic officers sculpted by the Perry's. I picked them both up at a show from a spares box and removed the large plumes in their hats and buttoned gaiters. I think they started life as Russian or Prussian mounted officers but they do very nice as a pair of Liberal officers.

So these will be on table for our game on Sunday and a battle report is expected as a follow up next week some time. In the mean time as usual thank you for reading.

The First Swedish Brigade

So having completed my first Swedish General I now have a complete brigade. No idea who this general is based on so I will refer to him as Carl Piper, one of the infantry column commanders at Poltava and a favourite of King Charles.

This is probably the simplest of the two Generals I have to paint for the Swedes at the moment. Another Ebor figure and very easy to paint.

The brigade itself is made of three battalions all of which were actually in Roos infantry column at Poltava. This was the column of 6 Indelta battalions which became separated from the main army and was eventually forced to surrender.

Ypu can see from the above I have added the Smalands cavalry and the brigade gun.

The Below gives a good view from the side of a srtanding unit showing the three ranks quite clearly

This does give a good idea of how these will look on table and the sort of space they will use. However with the Swedes having nearly 50% cavalry I will need to get my skates on with the horse.

That's it for now folks. Hope you like how they look. I am really happy with how these are coming along.


Thanks for reading.


#greatnorthernwar  #Swedish #Poltava

Swedish Regiment Sodermanland

Back to the Swedes this week.


This is the first regiment using mainly Ebor Miniatures Swedes. I have to say I am definitely a fan.

Sodermanland was another of the regional Regiments that formed the backbone of the Swedish army and fought in most of the major engagements including Poltava.. The uniform is typically Swedish with the Blue jacket faced yellow, with the slight difference of white leggings to set them apart slightly

Above is the right hand base with the two nearer figures being Grenadiers, you cant tell from this but they have two cartridge pouches, the second one being for the grenades and being coloured with the royal cipher on. The rearmost figures is a Warfare Drummer.

 In the above picture of the left hand base the much taller figures of the Warfare Seargent is very apparent. In the second rank is a foundry musketeer who fits in very well with the slightly smaller Ebor figures.

The command base with those huge and colourful Warfare flags, All Ebor with the exception of the ensign at rear right who is Warfare, slightly less apparent in this picture.

 

The above picture gives you an idea of the depth of the bases, I do like how this looks and it gives a lot more protection to the figures, particularly those vulnerable bayonets we all loose. The idea impression of three ranks is more apparent in this photo as well.

And a last shot of the whole unit to finish. On the whole a very nice unit, the Ebor figures have lovely animation and I find that Paul Hicks sculpting suits my style of painting very well. The uniforms are simple so easy and quick to paint, which is a god send to me with my limited ability to paint.


I hope you like these, I have a general to share next and then I should have an after action report of next weeks Carlist War game.


Have a great weekend.

The Saxon Guard

The first battalion Saxon Guard are now ready to take the field against the Swedes, I intend to do 2 battalions for each regiment including the Saxon and Polish Guard. One of the reasons for doing this is that my Wargaming colleague Steve Shann already has an army for the slightly earlier period with units having 5 bases each, if I remove two bases from the second battalion and add to the first this will allow me to create 5 base units to fight Steve's armies.


The Saxons are particularly useful having sent battalions to fight for the Anglo Dutch under Marlborough as well as simultaniously  fighting the Swedes. The Guard like other units had battalions fighting the French in the War of the Spanish Succession at the same time as the Swedes in the Great Northern War. So really useful troops to have.





You can see from the above plate that the early Saxon units had floppy hats rather than tricorns for the first couple of years of the Great Northern War. However as this is 2-3 years out of 21 I figured units in Tricorn would be more useful.

The majority of the figures are wargames factory with just 6 being Ebor, officer, ensigns, drummer, seargent and casualty figures.


I have found these figures to be really nice for the basic foot soldier. The command figures though were fiddly and did not come out as well so the excellent Ebor filled this role.

In this picture we see the right hand as with a casualty at extreme right and Ebor Seargent at the back. Wargames Factory provide enough flexibility that each of the musketeers looks like an individual.

The Ebor officer is excellent, the flags are so large that the picture doesn't do the Ensigns justice.

This provides a slightly better view of the Ensigns, then again maybe not.......

In this left hand base we see the usefulness of the Wargames Factory separate heads for the Grenadiers. The drummer again is Ebor and the Gabion adds a nice little touch too I think.


These were the most persistent of Charles of Sweden's foes and I intend to have at least eight battalions of Saxons to fight alongside Marks Danes or Dave's Russians.


We have a largish Carlist Wars game upcoming so I may have pictures from that next.


Big thank you to Steve Shann who kindly did the base coats on these gents. Mucly appreciated Steve.




Cheers for reading.