Piedmont, Cavalry de Sully, Light Gun and another Commander

 More forces for my TYW French Army

First, the Piedmont Infantry Regiment. 

Next, the Cavalry Regiment de Sully. Lovely 1898 Minituras figures. Great animation.

A light cannon, from Empress. I like the limber being included as well.

And the third of my commanders for Rocroi. I'll use him as Baron de Sirot, commander of the Reserve at Rocroi.

Le Grande Condé

 Here is the main commander for the French at Rocroi, Louis de Bourbon, Duke d'Enghien, known as "The Grande Conde"

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The figure is from Warlord Games. The banner is home made.

TYW Cuirassiers and Commander

 Some more photos for your delectation - TYW Cuirassiers and a Commander.

Khalkin Gol - the game(s)!

 With my blogging hiatus, I realised that I never posted any links to the culmination of the Khalkin Gol project - the game(s) themselves!

I ran two games at club for this, firstly the short attack by the Japanese at the start of the campaign, the attack of the Azuma detachment which served as a preliminary battle in the campaign.

Khalkin Gol - Azuma

and next, the main battle itself!

Khalkin Gol - main

It reminded me that I never did refight the final battle at club, what with moving and packing.....looks like I will have to refight the other two again then!

(Rapid Fire 2 rules used)

Royal Navy Ships of the Line

I was kindly asked by a friend of mine, who has been inspired by some recent games of Blood, Bilge and Iron Balls at the club, if I could paint and rig some ships for him. 

Of course I said yes and we looked at one of the Langton's starter sets. It comprises of the 100 gun Royal Sovereign, the 80 gun Caesar, a 74 gun and a 64 gun.

These were the first ships I have done for about 8 years(!) so I was a little nervous about getting back in to the swing of the rigging! I was actually really pleased with how they came out, I have better lighting these days and also magnifying specs which really helped.

Here are some close up shots of them:

100 gun HMS Royal Sovereign - this includes a little jolly boat from NavWar of which I had a few going spare.

80 gun HMS Caesar

74 gun 'Common'

64 gun 

Naval wargame

 Good to get my collection out at club last week!

Naval game at NBHW

TYW Harquebusiers

 Another unit for my late war French TYW army for Rocroi.

This is a Weimarian unit, as the troops of Bernard de Saxe-Weimar went over to the French after his death.

A unit of Harquebusiers.

See them in action here, at our recent club refight of Lutzen 1632.

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