Mainly due to the storage situation, I have never got round to sorting out any buildings.  Then David Gale put me onto Total Battle Miniatures (http://www.totalbattleminiatures.com/bigbattalions/15mm/blackpowdereurope.html)

The key thing about these buildings, are the footprints, either 50mm x 50mm or 100mm x 50mm.  This I realised was ideal for my requirements in so many ways.

For ITGM I needed both “villages” (18cm x 18cm bases) and isolated houses.  By not attaching buildings to village bases I could:

• swap and change buildings on village bases for variety
• store village bases flat in a box file
• use buildings as isoloated buildings as/when

So off I went and bought a town set, painted for £100.

So I should get 3 village bases, 1 church base (figured that would look better on its own) and they all will fit into 2 box files.  Next step is to actually get them based up.  May need a 15mm graveyard.

Having just posted on the basing of the Horse Battery, reminded me that after a couple of months or so of waiting, the Heavy Cavalry Division is finally completed  

Nice paint job Jason!

The Yound Guard hold on as the Grenadiers arrive to stabilise the centre

Another European Bash in 28mm.  A French attacking force managed to get the Young Guard, Guard Cavalry and Prussians, attacking hoards of Russians (hiding behind a village).

Early Russian reinforcements gave the Russians a numerical advantage, which lead the sneaky French to setting up firing lines and hiding behind hills in a very British like manner.

The Elites and Veterans of the Yound Guard held of spirited attack by the Russian Division of Keith’ov whilst David’ov tried to make a numerical advantage of cavalry pay off in the centre. 

The Old Guard arrive to show the Ruskis how to shoot

Timely French arrivals saw the Grenadiers arrive, and finally the line infantry and cavalry Divisions to turn the numbers finally in favour of the French. A slow paced battle fought over a weekend.  Now we just need more 15mm stuff!

With our Divisional cards we never really knew what would turn up when, and a French attacking army was on the defensive for much of the game, with small number of good quality troops. 

French line troops finally start to arrive

Eventually though David got to see all of his French forces deployed against him.

Saturday saw me venture into the wilds of North Devon to play with the really big 28mm stuff of David Gale.  I stayed away from the realy realy really big 54mm stuff, though I was assured it was entertaining for hooking the youngsters.

As previous games needed a couple of more turns to complete, we decided to try a game with no Cavalry.  David has a Grand Redoubt, so I suggested we refight part of Borodino (as per the WHC) and set about having Davout attack a small Russian Force, defending the major earthwork.

The Army list we eventually laid our hands on had 17 battalions under Davouts command.  Eventually, with a few British and Prussian reinforcements, David could deploy a large number of his collection.

Eventually the hoardes of French got close enough, with enough troops to take the battery.

A fun day

Regiment of Carabiniers started to base up, along with their new Ebayed commander

FoW bases turned up so can start basing work on the Tigers too