Long Service Award

A bit of a late blog but with getting the game ready for Legionary I have let the update slip.

Ten days to the day from placing the order, over 25kgs of metal arrived.

Like a kid in a sweet shop I dived straight in and found the following:

 3 off American Infantry, Leather Shako March Attack

2 off American Infantry, Summer Field Dress March Attack

4 off American Command, Leather Shako

2 off American Militia

1 off Artillery Crew in Shako 

1 off 7th New York Dragoons with Command

1 off  5th Maryland Volunteers

1 off Mounted High Command incl. Jackson

2 off New Orleans Freed Men of Color

1 off Light Dragoons with Command

1 off Canadian Voltigeurs

1 off West Indian Regiments

1 off British Marines

1 off Glengarry Light Infantry Skirmishing

1 off Deployed Rocket Troop

1 off 6lb Guns

I also ordered a few packs to bolster my Scottish Wars of Independence armies. These will bulk out my schiltrons which are currently made up of EBOB and early Citadel/Ral Partha miniatures. 

2 off Scottish Spearmen

1 off Scottish Dismounted Knights

1 off Scottish Highlanders & Isle men

and

1 off English bowmen

I must say that I am very impressed with the 1812 figures, have not opened any Scottish War of Independence packs yet. The pose variations and detail is great. From the packs I have opened there seems to be about 5 poses on average, excluding command if included. Then each pose will also have a number of head variations.

While unpacking, I discovered the British rockets crews and I had to open, prime and start painting. These are very animated and I just love the faces. I will finish the rockets in the next couple of weeks hopefully, so will update when they are all based.

Old Glory Rocket Crew 28mm

I also started to paint some of the Canadian Voltigeurs. With there being 30 in a pack and using my KGCAWO rules they will only fight in a skirmish formation. Therefore I can get 3 figures to a base and have 5 bases to a unit. Here are the first couple of bases.

Old Glory War of 1812 Canadian Voltigeurs

Old Glory War of 1812 Canadian Voltigeurs

Here is a picture of old glory compared against the foundry 1812 range and Knuckle Duster. I think old glory and knuckle duster are fully interchangeable. Foundry are a little smoother in style than the angled edges of Old Glory and Knuckleduster but all have great facial detail. Foundry are smaller and slimmer but I suppose the old figure intermingled would not matter or you could have whole units of them. The only issue with that is the lack of pose variation.

28mm War of 1812
Old Glory/Foundry/Knuckleduster

Here is a picture of some foundry painted.

Foundry American War of 1812 range.

I guess that next years demo game for Legionary 15 will be the War of 1812 and probably Crysler’s Farm.

Hope you enjoy the pictures.