#Napoleonic Wargaming

[corvidous]

Finally done with my holiday break. And what did I DO on said break you ask? Loads of stuff, but these are my first painted miniatures of 2024! A unit for Silver Bayonet, the Napoleonic gothic horror skirmish game.

I present to you the crew of the Nancy, ably led by Captain Mackintosh, semi-reluctantly roped into supernatural horror-hunting by the reactivation of his naval officer's commission, and his crew of definitely stalwart and upright seamen (as well as a couple Royal Marines on loan from the Admiralty. Just to make sure none of the Navy's orders are mysteriously lost in transit and that all the financials stay present and correct.) These lads are mostly Perry Miniatures with a single representative from North Star along with various conversion bits sourced from all over, as well as my first foray into simple sculpting with green stuff epoxy resin. Also the most intensive basing that I've tried yet, to look like ship's planking. I'm quite happy with how they turned out.

The individual shots of figures and descriptions are under the cut:

He's Alexander Mackintosh, nephew to the laird, and he does disdain men who are vain, the men with powdered hair!

Mr Stanhope, the Marine Officer is the captain's right hand man. As mandated by the orders of the Admiralty. But he's a demon with a sword in his hand and that's quite welcome, given that there might be some actual literal demons to fight at some point or another. (He's dispensed with his normal hat plume in deference to the Captain's insistence that despite being dragooned into the King's service this IS ultimately a civilian ship.)

Mr Gatkins the Royal Marine. A taciturn fellow, he shoots first and asks questions only when specifically ordered to do so by his officers.

Mister Lannis is the ship's master gunner (Artillerist, in game terms) and his jaunty straw hat is very nice, thank you! (I included a chest of powder and shot from Mantic Games because I had to come up with something to denote who he is during gameplay)

Dr Phillips the ship's Doctor/surgeon, and a quick and dirty sculpt of my own for his bonesaw (again, had to differentiate this guy on the tabletop. I think it's a decent job. Bonesaw with a cutlass hilt, he's a real combat medic this chap.)

The venerable and curmudgeonly Mr Elms, the ship's carpenter (a Sapper, in game terms). This was the most intensive work of this whole lot: I started with a metal Perry Miniatures sailor figure, lopped his arms and head off, grabbed a pair of arms from the Oathmark Dwarf Light Infantry box and a head from the regular Dwarf Infantry box, then I sculpted an apron (luckily for me aprons are just flat sheets so it's not THAT hard) and then I grabbed a free musket from the Wargames Atlantic Afghan Tribesmen box. Whew. I think it ended up looking quite nice. Very characterful.

Able Seaman MacWhorter is along for the ride and excited to show off his swordsmanship against all manner of supernatural toffs.

And last but not least we've got Mr Harris, the local guide and scout. He's a crack shot and he's worth his weight in gold when the shore party is trying to keep themselves oriented on land. (This model is from North Star Military Figures and I have to say I love that most of their native american models are like this: this is just a guy, not a fantasy cowboys and indians pastiche.)

Issues with this team are that the vast majority are using pistols, we've only got three muskets in the unit, that's not a lot of long range shooting, might make things difficult vs a more musket heavy warband. But ah well, it just calls for a bit of aggression, doesn't it? Get in on 'em, as I always say!

[maniakminis]

He likes to be tall

This is the Toff for my Old Guard Turnip28 army. Really happy with how he came out!

[ultima-waffle]

Turnip28 is fucken cool. Cant wait to start playing some games. Praise the Root!

[skuffsy]

Large collection of

Boys ✨

From my WIP Turnip28 regiment

The 48th Schnoz and Soil

[oldschoolfrp]

Dragon magazine 26, June 1979, featured GDW's wargame System 7 Napoleonics on the cover and in 4 articles -- a review, system analysis, designer's comments, and Q&A with designer Rich Banner. System 7 was a hybrid of board and miniature wargames, played on a table without a board but using cardboard counters to represent the formations of units. The aim was to get players playing immediately without spending weeks painting miniatures.

Other articles covered TSR's William the Conqueror: 1066 board game, D&D, Boot Hill, Empire of the Petal Throne, FGU's Lords & Wizards, and Avalon Hill's Starship Troopers.

The origins of D&D were rooted deeply in historical miniatures campaigns, and TSR originally catered to the wargaming community as a core part of its audience. TSR was founded to sell D&D but its first publications were historical miniatures rules, and Dragon magazine continued to include historical gaming topics for years, gradually reducing its coverage in favor of more D&D content and other TSR RPGs.

[swedebeast]

Redcoats yeeee baybeeee

[cromwell300]

15mm Riflemen

#miniaturewargaming #napoleonic

[retrocgads]

USA 1997

[mortallyminiaturewerewolf]

November Mini Challenge 1/30

So I'm gonna try and complete* 1 mini a day for all of October. First up is this ""French"" Officer for Silver Bayonet, the Gothic Horror Napoleonic Wargame

He's painted up in something vaguely resembling the colours Légion Irlandaise (Irish Legion) This is somewhat a cheat as I had him basecoated for millennia, just had to finish the sword and give him a wash. Silver Bayonet seems like a fun system too, I will have to give it a go when I have these minis painted

*not counting basing or varnishing, I like to do those in large batches anyways

[eggman91]

OK listen here did you ever wanted to play a miniature game that is basically fantasy Napoleonic wars boy do we have a game for you

Also, we have Richard sharpe aka Sean Bean but he a orc

[enkinaru]

Played some napoleonics

[wolf-woflie]

It’s been awhile, since I posted on here, this is my turnip28 army so far, they have had there first game of sharpes practice last weekend, fantastic game, theses will also be used for black powder and pike and shotte, as well as turnip28 most of theses are up on my twitter account

[phatburd]

💥

[skuffsy]

A sn00t br00t

[rnsulentic]

Italy 1796 again. French attack driven off with loss.

[alienbastelt]

2mm scale Napoleonic Russians for Blücher by Sam Mustafa