French Napoleonic infantry

 

I just finished a unit of line infantry for my Napoleonic french.
The miniatures are are Victrix. I just love the older bicorne hats.

I painted them rather rugged, with different colours on their pants and some with patches to really emphasize the dirty feel of troops on campaign.

The grenadiers and voltigeurs are based on single bases for skirmishing play and the fusiliers are based on multibases for easier movement on a larger battlefield. A sort of mix of both worlds.

The infantry officer on foot is newly painted but the mounted officer is painted previously but have been given a new base.

Voltigeurs

Grenadiers

The officer is joined by a small white cat.

And combined with the previously painted Voltigeurs I now got this small force to field. And its only growing...

Alpha Legion marines

With a new edition of Horus Heresy just released and me cleaning up and repackaging my hobby area i felt it was time to give these bolter pigs some more love...

The miniatures are not new, previously built and painted but not to this level. I added some white markings, an dark blue oilwash and some more work on the bases.
I felt previously these were a bit boring, being only painted to bare minimum but with the added details they are much better.

Battlegroup AAR, WW2 British vs German

 
We had a great game of Battlegroup https://www.battlegroup.uk/

I had almost forgotten how good these rules are and it was nice to play another game of it.

In this game we had the British facing of the Germans where I would be commanding the British side.

In the first scouting face I had an armoured car and the german had a sniper and a halftrack mounting an 2cm autocannon..
Their luftwaffe troops had deployed a 88 anti air cannon in the village so I had to try to sneak my way forward.

I tried to hide my armoured car behind a house. But the halftrack had spotted me and engaged.

The gunfight must have scared the luftwaffe troops and the fled the field after I pulled a "Confused" marker. Abandoning their mighty 88 gun when they got spooked I felt a big relief. 

The gun fight continues, neither of us manages to strike penetrating hit.

But eventually the German half track finds a weak point in the armour and my armoured scout car is destroyed.

German panzer forces have arrived. The mighty Panzer V, Panthers...
But I had a timed airstrike from an Typhon closing in...

I tried to get closer to the enemy by crossing the bocage. 

Infantry with lots of wounded pulls back, geting some much needed rest on the other side of the bocage.

The timed airstrike with the Typhon takes out a Panther.

Trying to use the terrain I try to close in on the mighty Panthers, seeing no point in engaging them from the front.

One of my half tracks gets stuck trying to cross some bocage.

A Sherman is taken out by a Panther at close range.

What a blast.
I really like the Battlegroup rules and have always had lots of fun with it.

We didn't have time to play it till the end and had to cut it
It was a close game but in the end the Germans had taken less casualties. Counting how much moral was left of each force I think it was something like 90 vs 95 points left. So it was a close game but I couldn't inflict enough damage on those big cats.