Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

The gang sat round the cozy fire, snacking, toasting chestnuts and reminiscing about the latest fight. "Three gangs, that was heavy." muttered the new hedgehog Prickles. "The two of the main Royalists and a new gang in the neighbourhood, Pi-rats, they had a lot of style" Martyn the mouse mage added. "Bien to 'ave a new target," giggled Arimouse the mouseketeer with a grin. Nibble McPhee, the new mouse highlander in teh gang, lived up to his name with his chestnut, "Seven rats, unusual. Coming in from our right." "The Royalists were opposite us, those two birds, Bobby the hound and Bucky the hare, a new weasel with a nasty club, plus Rackness the racoon hunter." "Sir Oliphant's warband on our left, all ten, and Syd and Synthia nearest to us" Pebbles added from her chair, one leg strapped up and on a stool. Straight away, Flash looked up from his drink, "Derek the archer moved up quickly, glad I got a shot off at ...

Mark got his rematch ! We stayed at 700 points, but went for a four brigade encounter. This changes the game a lot, as a sizable amount of troops are now in reserve, but with the same points, it means you have to pick your forces carefully, as the points now have to stretch a long way. He tweaked his French force a little, and I tweaked my Anglo-Allied A LOT! I chose to keep only four of my British units, the Veteran foot, two units of line infantry, and British foot artillery twin gun battery with cassions (although I swapped one gun for a Congreve Rocket Launcher team, just because it's insane, not sure it was legal, but it was fun, I only used the cassion rules for the artillery). I added two stands of the 95th Rifles to the line units to increase their firepower in skirmish. I took a two unit brigade of Nassau infantry , made up of the Veteran light infantry and the light infantry, supported by a twin battery of 9lbers with cassions. It was their first time ever on table (bulke...

Mark and I met up for my third game of Soldiers of Napoleon. I was using my Anglo-Allied (or just Anglo) again, with three bridgades at 700 points. One had a vet line, one light infantry, two line infantry and a battery of 9lbers. Second brigade was two line battalions and a verteran, with another 9lber battery, both with full cassions. My cavalry was two units of Hussars with an attached 6lber horse artillery battery. I also thought I would give British Rifle attachements a try, which promptly put me on +6 to initiative rolls (+1 for British, +2 for two Hussar units, +3 for 3 rifles attachments)  This would drop to +4 with losses, but Mark never beat it, it also gave me +1 reroll for my CinC and the choice of deployment. Mark was using a pure French force, with three freshly painted dragoon regiments with attached artillery, and two infantry brigades with one seasoned, one trained and two units of militia, plus a battery each. What was going to be telling was my morale value was ...