Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

 Marjk and I got together for another fun scrap of Soldiers of Napoleon. This time I took my 10mm 1813-15 Prussians, while Mark dug out his 15mm French. A stream crossed the battlefield. A large wood sat left, a small copse right, with a hill on the right. My cavalry sat on the hill, menacing. Two hussars a unit of dragoons ans an uhlan. In the centre a brigade of infantry (2 musketeers,  a fusilier, and a landwher, with extra artillery and full caissons) To either side of the stream the rught hand brigade, with one artillery battery with a landwher cavalry unit. Mark's elite Hussars cavalry swings left, his infantry masses in the centre, and two dragoons with artillery hold the right. Mark's first card was 'Senior Commander Injured', leaving me down a command card for the whole game, and no access to rerolls. Plus this gives Mark a bunch of Victory Points. That made life somewhat difficult as Mark would always have the final say each round after playing alternate cards...

"Op Ewig Ungedeilt"  A Schleswig-Holstein saying in Plattdeutsch,(we shall never be divided again).on many a stone in many Hamlets up north.(Thanks Juergen Olk for the quote)  We gathered at the Leighton Buzzard club and I get out my 1864 Danes and Prussians in winter garb, last seen in action during lockdown . All figures are from Pendraken 10mm ranges. The scenario was simple. A Prussian division, supported by cavalry needed to break through to take the three roads the other side of Bierborstal (made up village, not a historical event, made up generals). Blocking their way was a division of Danes, with two Napoleonic era redoubts holding the road into the settlement and the Prussians could see one regiment on the hill behind ancient earthworks. However, I never like to make things too simple, I let Mark, Ralph and Clive from Shrewsbury reprise their roles as von Modelmacher, von Marmalise and Brigadier Friedrich von Tegetthoff, write the orders for their brigades, which ...