tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33564634372079072842024-03-13T14:55:27.088+00:00From Matchlock to Dog LockWargames armies from 1618-1714legatus hedliushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078980742683576345noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356463437207907284.post-63344605322621844922016-04-24T21:51:00.000+01:002017-04-15T23:08:59.241+01:00The Sealed Knot in Mayfair 1970<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Here from the October 1970 issue of <i>Mayfair </i>magazine is an article on the, then, relatively new English Civil War re-enactment society The Sealed Knot. I have reproduced it in full and if you click on the images they should be readable!</div>
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The pictures in this article were taken by American photographer Philip O Stearns who was a Sealed Knot member himself. He also took the pictures for my favourite wargaming book <i>The War Game, </i>which dates from the same year. </div>
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Philip Olcott Stearns was born in Detroit in February 1917. The rather patrician Stearns attended the private Brooks School, in North Andover Massachusets, and then Princeton, where he was a successful rower. It was during his time at Princeton that he developed an interest in sculpting. He graduated with a degree in art and archaeology. During World War 2 he was based in the UK as a Captain in in the OSS (Office of Strategic Services; the precursor of the CIA) working with the French Resistance for which he was awarded the Croix de Guerre. He was a great collector of model soldiers and was also very involved in the early days of The Sealed Knot; the English Civil War re-enactment organisation.
He took the photographs for many books on model soldiers and even wrote his own: <i>How to Make Model Soldiers</i> (1974). He was a successful photographer; taking a cover picture for<i> Sports Illustrated</i> in the 1950s, for example.
Another of his books<i> Six Nymphets</i> (1966), is more appropriate to the work he did in the mid sixties and early seventies as Director of Photography for Bob Guccione's <i>Penthouse </i>and, indeed, many other mens' magazines in London, where he lived in a lavish flat in Mayfair. After he left<i> Penthouse</i> he went on to be editor of military history magazine <i>Campaign</i>. He died in February 2000, two days past his 83rd birthday, in Vermont. Interestingly, his death notice (paid for by his family) mentioned his interest in military miniatures and historical societies but didn't mention his photography at all!</div>
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After <i>Penthouse</i> he moved on to work for <i>Mayfair</i> and took the cover photograph and centrefold pictorial for the very same issue in which the article on the Sealed Knot appears.</div>
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He even managed to combine his two interests when he photographed the first ever <i>Penthouse </i>Pet of the Year, Amber Dean Smith (who appeared as Warren Mitchell's girlfriend in Hammer's curious SF western <i>Moon Zero Two</i> (1969)) in a seventeenth century setting and period clothes for <i>Mayfair</i> in 1969.</div>
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legatus hedliushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078980742683576345noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356463437207907284.post-34671148936532795812013-01-14T21:51:00.000+00:002017-04-15T23:09:10.333+01:00Empress Miniatures ECW cavalry 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I already have a lot of Renegade's ECW cavalry but haven't painted anything except a unit of cuirassiers. For the English Civil War this is obviously a major omission. When I saw Empress Miniatures new ECW figures I wasn't going to get any as I thought they would be too small (they're not) and not really add anything to the figures I had. However, when I saw them at Warfare I could not resist them because they are, quite simply, the nicest 28mm cavalry figures I have ever seen. You have to see them up close because they, essentially, have an extra level of detail I haven't seen in figures for this period.</div>
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Firstly, the horses themselves are lovely and, er, very obviously male! The heads and bodies of the horses also have the large veins sculpted on them which I have never seen in another horse in this scale. The reigns are separate rather than that odd all in one metal band you get in other manufacturers horses. The pistol handles are also much finer than the Renegade ones with nice detailing on the saddles, even though most of it won't be seen! The buckles on the bridles are also accurately reproduced. The only downside to them is that the horses legs are very fine so you have to be careful not to bend them when putting them on bases or, worse, still breaking them off their metal bases completely when you try to cut some of the supporting metal away, as I did. An email to Empress asking to buy a new one saw a response within the hour and a replacement is on its way. I also took the opportunity to order some pike men!</div>
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The riders are either in one main casting or some have a separate right arm. Again, the detail on these is extraordinary. The spurs, rather than being a simple spike are fully detailed including the rowels at the end. The buffcoat sleeves have seams, there is piercing in the helmet ear flaps and the sabres have a fuller and a basket hilt. The scabbard is a separate piece and so, amazingly is the helmet faceguard, allowing for a proper representation of the lobster pot helmet for the first time. The only concern with the rider is that the swords are very thin (as they should be) and seem impossible to get really straight and flat</div>
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There have been a few complaints on The Miniatures Page that these are expensive but they really are little works of art. The only concern I have is trying to get my painting to do justice to the quality of the sculpting ,but over the next few weeks I am going to try to complete an initial three or four models.</div>
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<i>Empress (left, Renegade (right)</i></div>
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I bought some of the marvellous new Empress ECW cavalry figures even though I suspected that they wouldn't go with my existing Renegade figures. Renegade are big figures and the Perry's I bought to go with them were much smaller and I sold them on (except the cuirassiers (see blog title picture) where I kept the riders and remounted them on Renegade horses so they look fine in the same unit.</div>
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<i> Empress (right), Renegade (left)</i></div>
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<i>Empress (top) Renegade (bottom)</i></div>
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Given my Swedish connections it was inevitable that I should return to the Thirty Years War at some point and a year or so ago I bought some of the amazingly comprehensive The Assault Group range which are also sculpted by Nick Collier who did such a great job on the Renegade figures. However, I don't really like them because they are a throw-back anatomy wise with, to my mind, overly large heads.</div>
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When the Warlord figures came out I thought they were lovely and anatomically excvellent but by this point I'd painted two big 48 man ECW regiments using Renegade figures and realised that the two ranges were completely incompatible. The new Warlord Thirty Years War figures use their ECW sprues with a few metal bits (particularly helmets). Now fashions for the Thirty Years War and the ECW were not the same but I guess they are close enough and they are packaged beautifully.</div>
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My biggest problem with the Warlord box (apart from the fact that you really need to buy seperate metal pikemen in tassets) is the number of components in the box and the fact that there are no instructions as to which arms produce which pose (something the Perries tell you, in contrast). So I have been put off starting them as they aren't that easy to work out. Fortunately several of the pikemen are one piece castings (except for the helmet) so it is simple to compare them to TAG and Renegade figures. I, personally, don't think they are compatible but the latest TAG command figures on TMP look a little better anatomy wise. Renegade are beefier than Warlord but could work in the same unit.</div>
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Well, although the last thing I need is another wargames period I have just given in and ordered a couple of packs from Galloping Major's French Indian War range. Some Canadian Militia and some Mohawks (or, rather, Kanienkehaka, as my Canadian First Nations Aboriginal contacts would no doubt prefer).<br />
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A year or two ago I bought from someone at Guildford all of Conquest Miniatures superb French and Indian War figures, <a href="http://www.conquestminiatures.com/french&indianwar.htm">http://www.conquestminiatures.com/french&indianwar.htm</a> although new releases for this range seem to have, sadly, dried up. I am very pleased to see, therefore, that a new company called Galloping Major Wargames <a href="http://www.gallopingmajorwargames.com/index.htm">http://www.gallopingmajorwargames.com/index.htm</a> is looking to do the French and Indian War in depth. I don't have any of the GMW figures yet so can't compare them to Conquest but they look pretty good whilst perhaps not reaching Conquest's standard (which really are superb). All I want from a firm doing this period are Indians, regulars and irregulars but no one out there has achieved this yet in an acceptable (to me) style. </div>
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The two things I remember about the show were Philip Madoc's brooding Magua the Huron: one of the great villains of 1970s British TV (up there with Anthony Valentine's Major Horst Mohn in <em>Colditz</em> (1972)) and the title music; which, nearly forty years later I can still sing and always comes into my head if I am walking in forests in Canada!<br />
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The third influence, which the Galloping Major site didn't mention was seeing the excellent Spencer Tracy film North West Passage (1940) on colour TV for the first time back in about 1970. Sadly, the latter is not available on DVD (and the book is out of print too) so I am very glad I managed to tape it off the TV a few years ago. In fact, the film's full title was <em>North West Passage Book 1: Rogers Rangers</em> but the sequel based on the second part of Kenneth Roberts 1937 novel was never made. Largely, I suspect, this was becuase the tone of the latter part of the book becomes increasingly critcal of Britain as Rogers, as a loyalist, and his friends disagree on the way the colony is run.</div>
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I started these just over a month ago but, due to being in Canada for two weeks and my daughter monopolising my desk for the last fortnight for her revision, I have only just finished them. They came out OK although it makes me realise that pale grey is a tricky colour to shade correctly. I based the uniform on a plate from Wargamnes Illustrated (I think -it was kindly sent to me by Dave from the Guildford Club). </div>
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I chose the Languedoc regiment purely because we used to holiday in the region when I was small. Our house was very old and I remember being very excited by the fact that the stairs to the top floor were on the outside, like the biblical houses we had studied at school. </div>
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One thing I also remember was how dreadful the wine was. Yes, I am afraid that even at the age of seven or eight I used to drink wine, at least when we were at our holiday home there. I remember that my father bought a plastic litre bottle of wine (I think it cost 50 centimes) and it was horrible. The wine from the Corbieres was particularly nasty and so was the Cotes du Roussillion. The only decent wine was the fortified stuff from Banyuls which was just up the coast from our house. I am afraid that I used to drink it with lemonade! The wines have improved hugely since then (the late 1960s) and wines like Minervois have gone from being cheap party wine in the seventies to £8.00 a bottle stuff now. Languedoc is now the biggest wine region in the world.</div>
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The food was always good, however, and the region is famous for Cassoulet, of which we used to eat enormous quantities when we were down there as my father strove to discover the best Cassoulet in the region. We found it, eventually, in a little restaurant in Castelnaudary. The town is now famous for the dish to the extent that TV chef Rick Stein did a programme from there. We would spend the summer there and we never saw any other British people and it's still less popular with British tourists than the Dordogne or the Cote D'Azur. I must go back sometime.</div>
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I was thinking about finishing these two figures a couple of weeks ago whilst wandering through Vielle Montreal one evening when, lo and behold, I came across a restaurant called Les Pyrenees. It turned out to be a Catalan restaurant and I had one of the best Cassoulets I have had for years. Well worth going to if you are ever in Montreal. <a href="http://www.pyrenees.ca/">http://www.pyrenees.ca/</a></div>
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They are a generic Blue Regiment; probably also a London Trained Band. These regiments are from the early war period when tassets were still worn. There are several factors that have made me go for an early look for my armies. </div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-1V8FtyVa9UagFwUwjVpDb1BM7bJaiVKpBzcNT8i5Umayior5DZeQgfbf2bclf76drt9TbE1X9jz8VuhWBN4336xdOxgBoxiZpXYFjz1L5KeQ_5FyliktOksSGkL0pf6bBxfkAht7ZgA/s1600-h/eng331.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342469044237507986" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 285px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-1V8FtyVa9UagFwUwjVpDb1BM7bJaiVKpBzcNT8i5Umayior5DZeQgfbf2bclf76drt9TbE1X9jz8VuhWBN4336xdOxgBoxiZpXYFjz1L5KeQ_5FyliktOksSGkL0pf6bBxfkAht7ZgA/s400/eng331.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="justify">Firstly, the influence of my first wargame book, <em>The Wargame,</em> edited by Peter Young, which had a piece on Edgehill in it, written by Young. As with the whole book there were evocative photographs by Philip O Stearns of Peter Gilder figures and scenery. </div><br /><br /><div align="justify"></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgnmwV3kWaQHpSVQysuurwoLeNl4sR5xZWX-g3obCV41Gt2LbyFRFtsZTTrztAYSSnR3-nH-n7mJcZucBIvjpt6PLCq1U0VxxWGmamCzzFl6aIV7idsaSLTpcYnk0a7Fu4KF5OMGOpMkk/s1600-h/eng330.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342469270933310082" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 279px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgnmwV3kWaQHpSVQysuurwoLeNl4sR5xZWX-g3obCV41Gt2LbyFRFtsZTTrztAYSSnR3-nH-n7mJcZucBIvjpt6PLCq1U0VxxWGmamCzzFl6aIV7idsaSLTpcYnk0a7Fu4KF5OMGOpMkk/s400/eng330.jpg" border="0" /></a><em> One of the excellent pages from The War Game featuring Edgehill</em><br /><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify">Stearns was also a member of the Sealed Knot as well as being a photograper and Art Director for Penthouse magazine when it started in 1965! He also took this photograph of Amber Dean Smith, Penthouse's first ever Pet of the Year, for Mayfair Magazine in the August 1969 edition. I am sure the 17th Century costume and background was not an accident (not that she kept the costume on very long). </div><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl05HbPzsIrLNMawvPDvJkyIOFOdztkYKh2vgY9OJJNm0QM0esggIUzB8X71-z-psf0OxM9BIyC18PjKjdKS0G8z9Y0ADdplblOHnk4DcZbfaQnbhWXSPdaJWVEWWV2_bs4PymzYF6-OE/s1600-h/amb+1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342469758053455570" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl05HbPzsIrLNMawvPDvJkyIOFOdztkYKh2vgY9OJJNm0QM0esggIUzB8X71-z-psf0OxM9BIyC18PjKjdKS0G8z9Y0ADdplblOHnk4DcZbfaQnbhWXSPdaJWVEWWV2_bs4PymzYF6-OE/s400/amb+1.jpg" border="0" /></a><em> Amber does 17th Century</em><br /><br /><div align="justify">My second influence was the Nicholas Carter novels about the ECW from the late nineties. He wrote five and then the series abruptly stopped for some reason. He wrote a couple of novels set at the time of Henry VIII and then disappeared. A shame, as his Shadow in the Crown ECW series was really enjoyable and focussed (at least initially) on the Hopton and Waller clashes in the West featuring battles like Roundway Down and Landsdown. One of my best friends lives in Bath and you have to drive across the Landsdown battlefield to get there. Carter's description of the different groups wandering around in the dark before Landsdown and taking pot shots at the glow from burning matches gives a great feeling of what warfare must have been like at ground level. Like Stearns he was also a member of the Sealed Knot so had some feeling for being involved in a big push of pike. </div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9jf4Wboc8YE5RlvglqOdu8BKcEfmnZpfE4fgwr90-_N_2UCZ53Zsjhh72Q06AwJdSOrpms57KkifXojCTMBeVBgTldbaVCPL5iw7YQtok2BaE66nd_7aFIDPLSTjznrMCchXFYdHmWuM/s1600-h/P1000465.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342470136182261106" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 374px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9jf4Wboc8YE5RlvglqOdu8BKcEfmnZpfE4fgwr90-_N_2UCZ53Zsjhh72Q06AwJdSOrpms57KkifXojCTMBeVBgTldbaVCPL5iw7YQtok2BaE66nd_7aFIDPLSTjznrMCchXFYdHmWuM/s400/P1000465.JPG" border="0" /></a><em> The flag is by Body's Banners</em><br /><br /><div align="justify">I have a few figures painted for my next two regiments: the Earl of Essex's and Hampden's Regiment who wore orange and green respectively. I then ought to paint some smaller (than the 48 figures of my first two) units who look a bit tattier. The units at the recent Loseley Park re-enactment were very much on the scruffy side. Coat colours seldom matched and breeches were usually a different colour from jackets. My units by contrast are very smart. This is justifiable as they are early war Parliamentarians and, thus, better equipped. Also I can't help thinking that there are many examples of Colonels buying large amounts of a particular coloured cloth for their men. Surely it is likely that at least in some cases this would have been sourced from the same place and therfore jackets and trousers would have been the same colour and there would have been considerable uniformity. Later in the war you would expect more of a patchwork, perhaps. </div><br /><div align="justify">In the meantime I have started on my second unit of horse; a straight cavalry unit to join my painted cuirassiers (another early war unit).</div></div>legatus hedliushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078980742683576345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356463437207907284.post-68746909931576138992009-05-26T10:55:00.001+01:002009-05-26T10:55:53.494+01:00First Foote Guardes<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDpMmvDEfDGoVhgTMHXSnhc5P266mOEFp2UGejWZ1hSzmeqfQcLHt2G6aN2LxLH0_vZyj6KGZFZ8RLpj3UwtUbpS2qP926SXWIP468MNycNdh-rYlwpx8IzLPqgPO0vMKxVZJEz4B1pg/s1600-h/ecw+9.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339893652098554530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 252px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDpMmvDEfDGoVhgTMHXSnhc5P266mOEFp2UGejWZ1hSzmeqfQcLHt2G6aN2LxLH0_vZyj6KGZFZ8RLpj3UwtUbpS2qP926SXWIP468MNycNdh-rYlwpx8IzLPqgPO0vMKxVZJEz4B1pg/s400/ecw+9.jpg" border="0" /></a><em> Pikeman</em> (no armour, helmets or gloves by this period)<br /><br /><div align="justify">I actually managed to get some painting done today for the first time in a month. What with being in Canada for two weeks (and all the follow up) then having to deal with a domestic Swine Flu crisis (I spend two weeks avoiding anyone who speaks Spanish on my trip and someone on my daughter's school coach infects everyone!). This resulted in my daughter's subsequent homework/revision crisis so that she needed the internet a lot hence no access to my desk. Then the new bolier saga meant that huge amounts of stuff had to be temporarily shifted about. I feel shattered!</div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDoGe7sRzHxsHc0DxVRSEDjFszEzl18-6l_6lcyPglY95ezrgKdQPqg-CBvRq5CZqbt8CeAt0mmDTVqgfXzeYDgOSGB_ovdUBQowTye2BzV5f9zh-TFWIgh2ob6naiuXz-k8a_-Av6wg/s1600-h/ECW+22.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339895159434514114" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDoGe7sRzHxsHc0DxVRSEDjFszEzl18-6l_6lcyPglY95ezrgKdQPqg-CBvRq5CZqbt8CeAt0mmDTVqgfXzeYDgOSGB_ovdUBQowTye2BzV5f9zh-TFWIgh2ob6naiuXz-k8a_-Av6wg/s400/ECW+22.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="justify">So, it was good to get out to Loseley Park yesterday for the Sealed Knot day and it has enthused me enough to actually pick up a paintbrush again. I got up early and did some work on four Renegade ECW Musketmen who have been on the work bench for a year. I just need to complete them to finish my second ECW Foot regiment and got well on the way today. I also did a bit on my Musketeer GNW Russians and have ordered some of the new pikemen.</div></p><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">Then it will be back to the Louis XIV figures from Mr Copplestone. From the same period (OK slightly later) were a Sealed Knot unit at Loseley yesterday; the 1st Foote Guards who represent a British force from the period of the Monmouth Rebellion and, therefore, the last pitched battle fought on English soil Sedgemoor (1685). I have always been interested in this battle as I used to have a girlfriend who lived in Somerset and I had to drive past the battlefield at Westonzoyland to get to her house. I have always been a fan of Pirate books and films and, of course, in Rafael Sabatini's Captain Blood Dr Peter Blood is sent to the Caribbean sugar cane fields as a slave by the Bloody Assizes for tending to one of the rebel soldiers at Sedgemoor.</div></div><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdy2WIo0MkdiI9DTHcjwek6JYPJ-IU9n6XEIe1TmRps9YZcJ8A4LWVpw0yKskL6OQhcVOQ3xkBoXN7AHyYkdjq4BR41X3DyBc0xUcyjnapmv6njE1rO6eJayUk3uBERZiojdbcvrkq_Q/s1600-h/ECW+8.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339893479640035730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdy2WIo0MkdiI9DTHcjwek6JYPJ-IU9n6XEIe1TmRps9YZcJ8A4LWVpw0yKskL6OQhcVOQ3xkBoXN7AHyYkdjq4BR41X3DyBc0xUcyjnapmv6njE1rO6eJayUk3uBERZiojdbcvrkq_Q/s400/ECW+8.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><p>The grenadiers already have flintlocks and plug bayonets whilst the "hatmen" still have the old matchlocks.</p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicSsskZRC3iQ-huwAKnHi0HViDpsayx_41X4cOXf9kfO6ZJFVyxypgjRDmkHVQ4vZP2wT4DCbh3rt4YGos9DPJ0IyTi_a3x1THAmyuHuhMak8fL9my-gKMq8g6FjbQFfV_MuksVtjAoQ/s1600-h/EcW+7.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339893334456286322" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicSsskZRC3iQ-huwAKnHi0HViDpsayx_41X4cOXf9kfO6ZJFVyxypgjRDmkHVQ4vZP2wT4DCbh3rt4YGos9DPJ0IyTi_a3x1THAmyuHuhMak8fL9my-gKMq8g6FjbQFfV_MuksVtjAoQ/s400/EcW+7.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="justify">These are the sort of figures I need for government troops for my pirate games so let's hope Copplestone come out with something like this as nice late 17th/early 18th century are in very short supply for this purpose (in fact I can't think of any).</div>legatus hedliushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078980742683576345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356463437207907284.post-48105427019204608322009-05-26T10:53:00.000+01:002012-04-01T10:01:47.222+01:00Painted: Régiment de Carignan-Salières 1665<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Next I think I will do a couple of figures from a more traditionally uniformed unit. I've still no idea what to actually use these figures for and am contemplating something I don't usually do which is having a non-historical historical approach. These means the uniforms are right but the units I paint may never have engaged each other.</div>
</div>legatus hedliushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078980742683576345noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356463437207907284.post-37907980075722469572009-05-26T10:51:00.001+01:002009-05-27T22:39:24.106+01:00Régiment de Carignan-Salières 1665<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3N02wxbzimtcgEwU8BVJrE008fl93kekeHx7Lcz-q54fYM7NBdqZpzB-nH8mpmMvX9GN7J6aYtOINw_vT4EmzyH70PVjRPMBG9iuEUnkkZjQ7vcdik0g9Cvxss3PuYHRRW_Le9EKP9w/s1600-h/musketeer.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319071612279836594" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 348px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3N02wxbzimtcgEwU8BVJrE008fl93kekeHx7Lcz-q54fYM7NBdqZpzB-nH8mpmMvX9GN7J6aYtOINw_vT4EmzyH70PVjRPMBG9iuEUnkkZjQ7vcdik0g9Cvxss3PuYHRRW_Le9EKP9w/s400/musketeer.jpg" border="0" /></a><em> New Copplestone Castings French Musketeer</em><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0VQppl8PZclo9n4tlLWewVUQX6HZpDlx9hsq-1XWDZ4pwGcn0WboiYtUnkW10GcJzqhP-sP1FDByMod-s-DCUrpy2XXWZqDaW2Iq6VqvrDUDbmj96YhZ9pTVZNVvBtpT4S9jvTE5NbQ/s1600-h/carig.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319061739142218050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 272px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0VQppl8PZclo9n4tlLWewVUQX6HZpDlx9hsq-1XWDZ4pwGcn0WboiYtUnkW10GcJzqhP-sP1FDByMod-s-DCUrpy2XXWZqDaW2Iq6VqvrDUDbmj96YhZ9pTVZNVvBtpT4S9jvTE5NbQ/s400/carig.jpg" border="0" /></a><em>Régiment de Carignan-Salières musketeer 1665</em><br /><br /><br /><div align="justify">I just found this great blog with lots of stuff for the period of Louis XIV which will no doubt help me with my new Copplestone figures. <a href="http://warsoflouisxiv.blogspot.com/">http://warsoflouisxiv.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br /><br /></div><div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDFHW1-k5QhkjHFN42lvamhECaIw8aGTrg7QJt-jyHzAoPG-HamurKt26RZFlJRY2gcsFEbRQKsSGsohuVdkOrQ94K9cajxQNoRPXktkIZJ5Tokuh-8iJF3pPqdQ-wSYT-_mtJ3QPPHQ/s1600-h/carig2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319061848144923298" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 256px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDFHW1-k5QhkjHFN42lvamhECaIw8aGTrg7QJt-jyHzAoPG-HamurKt26RZFlJRY2gcsFEbRQKsSGsohuVdkOrQ94K9cajxQNoRPXktkIZJ5Tokuh-8iJF3pPqdQ-wSYT-_mtJ3QPPHQ/s400/carig2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />One of the many pictures on the blog shows a soldier of the régiment de Carignan-Salières by Francis Back who did the pictures for the Osprey on the armies of Louis XIV, which I will try to pick up tomorrow from Foyles (although Foyles no longer seem to keep the complete range of Ospreys as they used to).</div><div align="justify"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZpHyQ1Hla84RsuwVzNtM-0u1qE2uI_QIBu8IYDaXFuDT71AYB9uMHFJKANJnT2C72DkgLKyYSoX8OK2kyGPNJlJm6EgMjzwnh3xEpYy-8i_6gp7OX4LtDBSDL63z2x5SYL-1eDllswg/s1600-h/couleurs.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319062152529864658" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 262px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZpHyQ1Hla84RsuwVzNtM-0u1qE2uI_QIBu8IYDaXFuDT71AYB9uMHFJKANJnT2C72DkgLKyYSoX8OK2kyGPNJlJm6EgMjzwnh3xEpYy-8i_6gp7OX4LtDBSDL63z2x5SYL-1eDllswg/s400/couleurs.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div align="justify">Formed by a merger of the Carignan Regiment and the Salières Regiment in 1659 they first saw action against the Ottomans. In 1665 1200 men of the regiment were sent to Quebec City in New France (Canada) to protect settlers from the depredations of the Iroquois. </div><br /><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWuVBWh05I4TyUEwjtBLqTqVZYwW2zPYT61VL3w7aBXfMDjGnvUM7H0_KKwS4P2fdXfDc-QM3bf3-21J5PgADcHrzn9J6pp8R1T-wzXpaBFmWafJhg81ee3J7cm9lhjf01XLvRh789_Q/s1600-h/C-SChambly.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319062275602170434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 269px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWuVBWh05I4TyUEwjtBLqTqVZYwW2zPYT61VL3w7aBXfMDjGnvUM7H0_KKwS4P2fdXfDc-QM3bf3-21J5PgADcHrzn9J6pp8R1T-wzXpaBFmWafJhg81ee3J7cm9lhjf01XLvRh789_Q/s400/C-SChambly.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="justify">The Iroquois were the dominant nation at that time with over 2,000 warriors compared with only 3,200 French settlers in the whole of New France. </div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVPiJmVTulDddFn_3jUyCLdsr-7vGrtZj0wwGnVzjCiQ2SnBCSfjceJhRZhmOooU_rD_X8zBTwVW1DHpoK6L1d-mFX95CW4cV6R3LCn-Ov0zxZ4pJ-3p-a7EEJm8VRTnOFEcD2jsjR-g/s1600-h/regiment+carignan+salieres.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319062670778475762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 185px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVPiJmVTulDddFn_3jUyCLdsr-7vGrtZj0wwGnVzjCiQ2SnBCSfjceJhRZhmOooU_rD_X8zBTwVW1DHpoK6L1d-mFX95CW4cV6R3LCn-Ov0zxZ4pJ-3p-a7EEJm8VRTnOFEcD2jsjR-g/s400/regiment+carignan+salieres.bmp" border="0" /></a></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="justify">However, despite expeditions to seek out their foe the regiment found little sign of them, other than a few skirmishes, as they had been badly hit by a smallpox epidemic. </div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVlG-MQSoXGeqohK9amOTPkj4hykysNlB8HUvObk_-jaR0YvyeqYQ8bJgOZBM1-rN-XjDIamoOlXRfan-L6Ht8PBiX-pfv_atow4VKeQUm8-RsA1sGZv4pagwqlMBpzuQyAHC14ZDY0Q/s1600-h/Carignan1665BattlePlan.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319061965049655746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 368px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVlG-MQSoXGeqohK9amOTPkj4hykysNlB8HUvObk_-jaR0YvyeqYQ8bJgOZBM1-rN-XjDIamoOlXRfan-L6Ht8PBiX-pfv_atow4VKeQUm8-RsA1sGZv4pagwqlMBpzuQyAHC14ZDY0Q/s400/Carignan1665BattlePlan.jpg" border="0" /></a><em> The route of the September 1666 expedition</em></div><div align="justify"><br />Given a determined expedition by the regiment in September 1666 the Iroquois, rather than fight, signed a treaty with the French. The regiment was disbanded in 1794. </div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtK9SMY0O_dKlybx4rWU-jnjXo-aWgW1kgmYU8v3aCgw8Uco4sSbrzuv5fEZ-5lu30ScBjdEJR0Uy1JO-gEcefo3xm53iIsFbadqPkDrhhU76iEVkPFlKR6DmIFNGjVc-1Jvs1SjMphA/s1600-h/JourneeDesMusees1999.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319062433275110770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 305px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtK9SMY0O_dKlybx4rWU-jnjXo-aWgW1kgmYU8v3aCgw8Uco4sSbrzuv5fEZ-5lu30ScBjdEJR0Uy1JO-gEcefo3xm53iIsFbadqPkDrhhU76iEVkPFlKR6DmIFNGjVc-1Jvs1SjMphA/s400/JourneeDesMusees1999.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />The regiment returned to France in 1668 but King Louis XIV encouraged soldiers to remain in New France to boost the colonial population by granting estates to the officers and land and livestock subsidies to the men. </div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWRwbIZ8c4zwaxAYamnAgYf21kQC9Sl0DjGFS7kqfsO_9s7jCqhXio3XFtaXagboAXwnfhqfWtq7SoBSxAO54It8JQs8Ac7ne6wCPTvS6h8qBYDnc5PRx8PYgD1aFoygcbcMPROt6_Kg/s1600-h/Militaire_rapide.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319062532049688914" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 165px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 247px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWRwbIZ8c4zwaxAYamnAgYf21kQC9Sl0DjGFS7kqfsO_9s7jCqhXio3XFtaXagboAXwnfhqfWtq7SoBSxAO54It8JQs8Ac7ne6wCPTvS6h8qBYDnc5PRx8PYgD1aFoygcbcMPROt6_Kg/s400/Militaire_rapide.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="justify">450 of them did so and, as a result, many French Canadians of today can trace their ancestry to someone in the regiment, to the extent that Quebecois holiday agents offer holidays to trace the areas where the officers of the regiment came from.</div><div align="center"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtjKpPiz7jAS9Pf4sXMzYJlqVDxIBdD-pl3h0YHoeqgf_FoMLWgjCKE-wFqjCXC9xc95qmE98lfq3Si11cJ1QVqsk6LzSnGaHDmk6m7N6ERvgnOMLbGpMEccbG99buY0hXPtlOnFj2QA/s1600-h/24-Officier_CarSal.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319066284732755874" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 161px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 360px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtjKpPiz7jAS9Pf4sXMzYJlqVDxIBdD-pl3h0YHoeqgf_FoMLWgjCKE-wFqjCXC9xc95qmE98lfq3Si11cJ1QVqsk6LzSnGaHDmk6m7N6ERvgnOMLbGpMEccbG99buY0hXPtlOnFj2QA/s400/24-Officier_CarSal.jpg" border="0" /></a> <em>Officer</em> </div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify">The regiment was one of the first in the French army to wear a uniform and I think it is a very attractive one; the muted browns, grey and buffs being ideal to chase Iroqouis in the forest. </div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfv2focP04H9HwoHro1ZQKB7f79SEhyphenhyphen3xP_egFIvtRXHVYKps3DGKhb2zZNtjnO5lRpnZZU30U0SphA3gHTh96goWdQzmGkcR4Ljc3Mb6TA9IDHv6kedMN7-fgQJX_OA3fdGVmjmxl4w/s1600-h/v1_c4_s01_ss00_01drummer+carignan.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319062781327718994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 183px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 339px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfv2focP04H9HwoHro1ZQKB7f79SEhyphenhyphen3xP_egFIvtRXHVYKps3DGKhb2zZNtjnO5lRpnZZU30U0SphA3gHTh96goWdQzmGkcR4Ljc3Mb6TA9IDHv6kedMN7-fgQJX_OA3fdGVmjmxl4w/s400/v1_c4_s01_ss00_01drummer+carignan.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify">The troops left their pikes in France but carried the new bayonet. The drummers wore a much brighter uniform based on the livery of the Prince de Carignan. </div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoUYp3ve715XVobfrhKwk2zADobOQL1e4f-oREXNryeTrM1hH4N4-hS9GArRvRqkoyTpHovd_q1pI3CP-MzuW4rrn3SEkjnJawBASF8eMsU-kCooYjluv3colZVU4C5CRZXox36osxpA/s1600-h/CarignanRegimentalColors.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319062049662798866" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 230px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoUYp3ve715XVobfrhKwk2zADobOQL1e4f-oREXNryeTrM1hH4N4-hS9GArRvRqkoyTpHovd_q1pI3CP-MzuW4rrn3SEkjnJawBASF8eMsU-kCooYjluv3colZVU4C5CRZXox36osxpA/s400/CarignanRegimentalColors.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div align="justify"><br /></div></div><p align="center"><em>The regiment's standard</em></p><p align="justify">So I think I will paint this figure as above ready to fight the Iroquois. Conquest miniatures make Iroquois but most of them have flintlock muskets. I suspect bows would have been more likely at this time and they do a woodlands indian pack with bows if I paint enough for a skirmish but, as others have observed, the Copplestone figures aren't really animated enough for skirmish wargaming. Nevertheless I travel to Canada a lot and may even have to go to Quebec City again in May so a few figures from this historically important unit would not go amiss I think!</p>legatus hedliushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078980742683576345noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356463437207907284.post-72283290565754406612009-05-26T10:47:00.000+01:002009-05-26T10:50:37.172+01:00The Thirty Years War<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNixEJwggcvIh71kvlpopFfQoL2UGdaK_pNudvlmZ9EaAl2Hv-iKXdPsAWK6UIQVQSEUpr2yFKsDk9RacBypsEY4oiboDfQW8hu5kNsCOcsMacduC8XOefJ-HgMgm-z8CM4crpPyd-nQ/s1600-h/pikemen.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304427787924712530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 305px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNixEJwggcvIh71kvlpopFfQoL2UGdaK_pNudvlmZ9EaAl2Hv-iKXdPsAWK6UIQVQSEUpr2yFKsDk9RacBypsEY4oiboDfQW8hu5kNsCOcsMacduC8XOefJ-HgMgm-z8CM4crpPyd-nQ/s400/pikemen.jpg" border="0" /></a><em> I took this picture of some model Thirty Years War Swedish Pikemen in the Army Museum in Stockholm on my last visit. The figures are 1/6th scale, hence the amazing detail.</em></div><p align="justify"><br />I was initially attracted to the Great Northern War by the striking blue and yellow uniforms. Some years ago for the same reason, I bought a lot of the Revell Thirty Years War plastics. As a set they probably remain the best plastic figures ever produced. I painted quite a few and even started to buy some of the Tumbling Dice 20mm ECW metals to fill the gaps (especially as regards pike men).<br /></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304428498192276802" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 296px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnVTsT5uusHsgLxkfjnXvLbjWAMOWAUbh5t4uqGsIwM0PV2IsQXrJ-IxwbbZupOqH-U5tcGTEP0ZG7M8BhKxaT2CpufHgAnrN_gd7YrlnaVOSmKn8jzzy3rKhScBl7gRjNn4mM3MC-uA/s400/revell+30+years+war.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="justify"><br />I started thinking about the Thirty Years War again with the announcement of the new Warlord plastic ECW figures. They claim that they are suitable for both ECW and Thirty Years War but, in fact, there are quite a few differences in the fashions of the period not least of which is headgear, baggier trousers and the length of jackets. Recently, however, The Assault Group have released some proper Thirty Years War Swedes and I have just ordered a couple of packs to see what they are like. They are sculpted by Nick Collier who did the wonderful Renegade ECW figures. I expect them to be slightly smaller than the latter as, apparently, he wasn’t that happy in being asked to sculpt them so large. I gather that the Warlord figures will be compatible with the Perry ECW figures which are much smaller than the Renegade ones. For ECW I will stay with Renegade and Bicorne, I think. I am trying to finish some of the part-painted figures on my workbench and have four Renegade Musketeers to do to complete my second ECW Regiment.<br /><br /></p><p align="justify"></p>legatus hedliushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078980742683576345noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356463437207907284.post-28114583851798959462009-05-26T10:44:00.000+01:002012-04-01T09:59:08.532+01:00The Battle of Farnham Castle<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In the morning there was a skirmish between a small Royalist and Parliamentarian force. They used the oportunity to demonstrate (rather well I thought) the roles of the different troops and weapons. One of the things that struck me straight away was how many women were in the different units. Not just wandering around in the background in 17th century frocks (although there were plenty of those) but with muskets and even pikes.<br />
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I was delighted to see that one of the units there represented The Tower Hamlets trained band with their distinctive colour bearing their motto 'Jehova Providebit' (God Will Provide). This is one of the two units of Civil War infantry I have painted so far and although they only saw action at Cropredy Bridge they can be used to represent any of the London trained bands, such as the three regiments which were present with Sir William Waller's force at Farnham Castle.</div>
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n American reader commented on the Louis XIV site that some American Civil War re-enactors had been banned from using gunpowder as it scared the "gentle-folk", or some such politically correct nonsense. No shortage of gunpowder today, however, and Guy's grandmother didn't seem at all phased ("I lived through the Blitz this is just fireworks!"). </div>
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By this time we were enjoying our hottest day of the year and it reached 25 degrees, meaning a lot of hard work for those members of the forces that had to supply on-field water. It started with a Royalist force marching down the hill to approach what were supposed to be the walls of Farnham Castle, Wallers HQ in 1643. <br />
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<em style="text-align: left;">The view from "Farnham Castle" up the hill where the Royalist army assembles</em><br />
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It wasn't long before there were hundreds of re-enactors on the field. Well over a thousand, I believe. Battle commenced and went on for over an hour.</div>
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</div>legatus hedliushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078980742683576345noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356463437207907284.post-12908478762104491882009-05-26T10:42:00.000+01:002009-05-26T10:43:30.597+01:00The Earl of Essex<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGS1cwHyBs6ERWW8Xo97y_SVI0Kr62M6aRdjAulMTlmHYXCs8iDZGM94mSqiKGPSfDZahz-8jfHj_YIpGCiiFCRGjc2_0aBgGg-FyCqWxco-4J2Tbx503idM_5tVvk-sIBhiQ_TwjwPQ/s1600-h/Earl+of+Essesx.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164133010147351378" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGS1cwHyBs6ERWW8Xo97y_SVI0Kr62M6aRdjAulMTlmHYXCs8iDZGM94mSqiKGPSfDZahz-8jfHj_YIpGCiiFCRGjc2_0aBgGg-FyCqWxco-4J2Tbx503idM_5tVvk-sIBhiQ_TwjwPQ/s400/Earl+of+Essesx.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />This is my Bicorne Miniatures model of Robert Devereaux, The Third Earl of Essex, (January 11, 1591 – 14 September 1646) who acts as General of my rather small ECW Army of two units of foot and one of cuirassiers. <p></p></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">The Earl of Essex's father, also named Robert, had been executed for treason in 1604 and his mother, Frances Walsingham, was the daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth I's head of intelligence. <p></p><br /></div><p align="justify"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTaOQZof1Z7JXLw8A9AxKGsRGXp2pVSFkMhG7n9qYogXGgNRd143n3-8-zQKyzgTnPcKajnFCLB1S6ZfLMfhc6juPWbw0sGQNeWWzDprzrYIaeGIuHbMHR4Tpn2i90xdY151sCYmLNiw/s1600-h/Bust_of_RobertDevereux_3rd_Earl_of_Essex.jpg"><span style="font-size:85%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164206316649159570" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTaOQZof1Z7JXLw8A9AxKGsRGXp2pVSFkMhG7n9qYogXGgNRd143n3-8-zQKyzgTnPcKajnFCLB1S6ZfLMfhc6juPWbw0sGQNeWWzDprzrYIaeGIuHbMHR4Tpn2i90xdY151sCYmLNiw/s400/Bust_of_RobertDevereux_3rd_Earl_of_Essex.jpg" border="0" /> </span></a><br />Following the accession of King Charles I, Essex became a Parliamentarian and led the Roundhead army at the beginning of the English Civil War in 1642, notably at Edgehill. He then commanded the forces at Turnham Green, which blocked the far smaller Royalist army from entering London; the Earl's forces having been boosted by the presence of the London Trained Bands and the Royalist's not being prepared at this stage, to force battle on a large group of, essentially, civilian Londoners. </p><p align="justify"><br />His campaign in Cornwall was largely disastrous and his forces were pummelled at Lostwithiel, much to Cromwell's annoyance. He resigned his position in 1646 and died the same year. So why do I have him as my army general? Firstly, because we share a birthday and secondly his colours were orange, which was my favourite colour when I was little!</p>legatus hedliushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078980742683576345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356463437207907284.post-23947307862562014182009-05-26T10:32:00.000+01:002012-04-01T10:00:32.465+01:00The Tower Hamlets Trained band<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I've actually used them in four games now but it is only as of this weekend, when I painted seven more, that they got up to their full strength of 48 figures; very old school!<br />
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Now there is, however, a fundamental flaw with my unit and that is that they are armed with normal matchlock muskets, whereas the THTB had firelocks. These they used to great effect at Cropredy Bridge (their only action) when they put lit matches on poles on the bridge for the Royalists to shoot at at night whilst they shot back from below the bridge with their firelocks. At the time I painted most of the unit you couldn't get figures with firelocks but now Bicorne do them so at some point I will replace all the musketeers with firelock men and use the musketeers as the basis of a new unit. </div>
</div>legatus hedliushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078980742683576345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3356463437207907284.post-2350650075514407802009-05-26T10:28:00.000+01:002009-05-26T10:30:56.223+01:001644 Rules<div align="justify">I actually got along to the club last night for the first time since last April! We played an ECW game using 1644 rules by Wargames Foundry, which I haven't played before. They are by Rick Priestley and so some of it is familiar from Warhammer ECW but there are some differences; notably the fact that you need markers to show the status of the morale of units and also to show intention to do things like charge. </div><div align="justify"><br /> </div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghjO_3NMSvoXEjwMUYmwcZ9yy0M6HnGOTUitNr88AR4DkWdYPBlX6L4xf7YL2Bz9Elg_J7i3kDnTOWeeqO3BXPv6vE8cb0TWZQgu8dBq2MM9f9URghPuklGg0FcRSSUwV3RiaBCzvA0g/s1600-h/ECW48%2520Casualties.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5163796057078078274" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghjO_3NMSvoXEjwMUYmwcZ9yy0M6HnGOTUitNr88AR4DkWdYPBlX6L4xf7YL2Bz9Elg_J7i3kDnTOWeeqO3BXPv6vE8cb0TWZQgu8dBq2MM9f9URghPuklGg0FcRSSUwV3RiaBCzvA0g/s400/ECW48%2520Casualties.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center"></a> <em>Bicorne's ECW casualty pack<br /></em><br /></p><div align="justify"><br />Personally, I don't like little signs on the wargames board so I might think about getting some wounded and dead figures to act as morale markers. Most of my figures are Renegade, with the rest being Bicorne. Bicorne do a nice casualty pack so I will pick this up and do some casulaties in the colours of my two completed regiments. The only problem we had with the rules was that we ran out of time. We played for about three hours but probably needed another hour to bring things to a conclusion. Part of this is the fact that foot only move four inches a move and cavalry eight and so take ages to come into contact. I didn't help by deploying behind a nice hedge and staying there, making Nick trudge across what seemed like miles of fields to get into contact.<br /></div><br /><div align="justify"><br />Unlike WECW, casualties are small, with only one or two figures lost per unit for each round of firing or melee. Given that we had 36 man units, and loss of figures itself does not seem to trigger morale tests, the engagements turned into slogging matches. Actually, I quite like this and if we had been more familiar with the rules we would probably have gotten along faster. Other peculiarities we found were the ineffectiveness of cavalry against infantry. Because the infantry units were so much bigger they could just pound away at the cavalry and reduce their numbers move by move (or at least until they are hit in the flank by a charging unit of Dragoons, which was the fate of my cuirassiers.<br /></div><div align="justify"></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdRzFv5CV7j1mYKJO4Sn0DhDdKvzf0buxSgOWFmhomD2Ch5LsJx2fFyfRN1FtXvwTx-VVRufXFhwZO4SxfLNgO0jkKAFYZAAbfhlkdUlKM9FHfQPEyAsibbN4GRp9jTFOYDB2cWgRU7g/s1600-h/cuirasssiers.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5163793630421556018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdRzFv5CV7j1mYKJO4Sn0DhDdKvzf0buxSgOWFmhomD2Ch5LsJx2fFyfRN1FtXvwTx-VVRufXFhwZO4SxfLNgO0jkKAFYZAAbfhlkdUlKM9FHfQPEyAsibbN4GRp9jTFOYDB2cWgRU7g/s400/cuirasssiers.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center"></a> <em>Sir Arthur Hesilrige's Cuirassiers: destroyed by some motley Dragoons. It's enough to make you jump off a cliff</em> </p><p align="justify"><br />Cavalry, to be effective against infantry needs to have a wide frontage and get another unit to pile in in support. The other issue was that we had quite a lot of units on the table. For Parliament, Adrian and I had seven Infantry units and four cavalry units, plus four light guns. We are going to have another go in a few weeks, which would be good. In the meantime, I might fight a few test skirmishes against my little boy to get a feel for the best size for units etc. This is important as having more figures firing makes such a small difference to the hits you might have that it may be best, for example, to have three smaller units that one big one. It was nice to play a game again and has got me keen on ECW once more, so I might try to paint another unit of cavalry in the next few months.</p>legatus hedliushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17078980742683576345noreply@blogger.com0