Wednesday, 25 October 2023

Light guns and Commanded Shotte

Despite progress beginning to slow this week, I did manage to get the bases of some light guns completed. I have deliberately left these as fairly generic. That way I can use them for either side. They are just the light guns that come with the cavalry sprue.



The other completed work is a unit of commanded shotte for Rupert's Royalists. For these I went with red coats, purely to add a little colour to the army. The figures for these are all plastic from Warlord games. They seem to have come out ok.



On the painting table are a couple of units of dragoons. Made a good start on one of the units and hope to get it finished for the weekend. I've also ordered a copy of Wargames Illustrated to get my hands on one of the plastic sprues of Scots Covenanters. I will just need another 11 for the project.


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  1. When you are mustering out artillery and commanded shotte, you must be close to Game Time. Great additions, Neil!

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    1. Very hopeful of getting a game in,hopefully in the next couple of weeks

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  2. Nicely done Neil…generic artillery is good. I’ll be interested to see what the Scot’s are like so will likely get WI next month

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    1. Cheers Matt. I've ordered a copy so hopefully it's here soon

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  3. The guns and commanded shotte look good Scotty and in truth, all the artillery would have been "generic" in real life at this period - probably, the New Modekl Army had a specific uniform for gunners, but prior to that they weren't even actually soldiers I don't think... more skilled tradesmen employed to handle the guns?
    I received an email from Warlord recently, touting their Covenanters - they looked pretty good! How many units will you be building - if I am not mistaken, the Scots provided the majority of the infantry in "Parliaments" army at Marston Moor, and a not insignificant portion of the cavalry too, despite Cromwell's dismissive remarks about " a few Scots horse".... !

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    1. It works out at 6 regiments of horse and 12 regiments of foot I need. Thankfully plenty of time to get them done

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  4. Excellent guns and commanded shot. Things must be in an advanced stage.

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    1. Cheers Richard, getting very near to meaningful forces for a game

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