1809 Allies - Not-Kickstarter! - Pledging closed, Naps getting sculpted!

[sultanbev]

There's no plans for Italians I'm afraid, but you can use the existing French as Zippee's going to do?

Never mind the Italians, what about Neapolitans? Okay, apart from standards I can use French infantry, but the cavalry are fairly unique.

Mark

[Zippee]

There's no plans for Italians I'm afraid, but you can use the existing French as Zippee's going to do?

Never mind the Italians, what about Neapolitans? Okay, apart from standards I can use French infantry, but the cavalry are fairly unique.

Mark

Please itemise their commitment to the 1809 campaign 

[sultanbev]

Please itemise their commitment to the 1809 campaign 

They were defending France's southern borders from a joint Spanish-British-Portuguese invasion to take pressure off the Austrians......

[sultanbev]

Damn, I posted a pledge and some questions and it's disappeared 

[sultanbev]

Okay, here's some thoughts if I can remember what I tried to post.

Kneeling skirmishers - no, I don't use kneeling figures, so yes, replace them with stood/running figures is fine.
Artillery - I prefer the 2 guns, 8 crew, 2x 4-horse limbers in one set as this is how I field my batteries. So don't leave out limbers where they are not currently available.

I'm doing my Napoleonics at 1:10 so most battalions are 50-90 figures, and cavalry regiments 40-100 ish. I tend to build entire corps too, so over time will be buyng lots of troops.

Some Polish Legions c1800 will be coming up on my to-do list next year, so I'll be after some Poles. The Hesse-Darmstadt range would be good, as you can never have enough infantry in bicornes for doing earlier armies.

As I'm no longer building lead mountains, but buying units as I paint the previous bought ones*, my initial pledge is
4x NDW1    Line/fusiliers, march attack   £5.25
1x NDW3    Line/fusiliers command   £5.25
2x NDW4    Line Elites (Volt/Gren), march attack NO COMMAND (16)    £2.80
1x NDW7    Mounted officer (5)    £1.75


* it's worked so far, I have a brigade of 1812 Austrians painted in a month, with 2 batteries and 2 ammo wagons, and you know how big those Austrian battalions are!

Mark

[Chris Pringle]

Dammit! I'm never going to get the Korean War finished.

I don't think the Koreans have finished it either, have they?

[Leon]

Kneeling skirmishers - no, I don't use kneeling figures, so yes, replace them with stood/running figures is fine.
Artillery - I prefer the 2 guns, 8 crew, 2x 4-horse limbers in one set as this is how I field my batteries. So don't leave out limbers where they are not currently available.

We'll make sure the skirmishers are in standing/firing/running type poses, no worries there.  The artillery will be in packs of 3 guns + crew as standard, but we can sort out your 2 gun / 2 limber packs once everything is done.  We'll just need to hit our targets and add those to the list!

4x NDW1    Line/fusiliers, march attack   £5.25
1x NDW3    Line/fusiliers command   £5.25
2x NDW5    Line Elites (Volt/Gren), firing line, NO COMMAND (16)    £2.80
1x NDW6    Mounted officer (5)    £1.75

Thanks for that, added to the list!

[sultanbev]

Oh yes, I remember what else I posted. Ahem

if all 2155 members of the forum go and buy $10 of MicroMark lists over at the Wargames Vault by this deadline, I can fund the other £2K of pledges and pay for the missing 1812 Russian light cavalry as well..... 

Mark

[Zippee]

They were defending France's southern borders from a joint Spanish-British-Portuguese invasion to take pressure off the Austrians......

I thought they were garrisoning Italian coastal defences (those that existed by 1809) in order to free up the northern Italian field army and French units stationed there but same end effect. 


Neapolitans are only really needed for 1812-13 and their real moment of glory in 1815 I felt it was a stretch to push them as part of the core 1809 range 

[Zippee]

Oh yes, I remember what else I posted. Ahem

if all 2155 members of the forum go and buy $10 of MicroMark lists over at the Wargames Vault by this deadline, I can fund the other £2K of pledges and pay for the missing 1812 Russian light cavalry as well..... 

Mark

So what are MicroMark lists and why do we need them [apart from fulfilling this pledge?]

[sultanbev]

They are A4 downloadable organisation charts, covering Napoleonics through to modern. Not tied to any rules set, include:
Revolutionary Wars
Napoleonics (including mainstream stuff such as Indians, Ghurkas, US militia, Turks, Mexicans, Omanis, Chinese, Persians...)
random 19th Century conflicts
Franco-Prussian War
Russo-Japanese War
Satsuma Rebellion
Balkans Wars
Mexican war c1912 (forget what it's called)
WW1
RCW
SCW
WW2 (including some nuetrals)
Cold War 1950s-1989
Vietnam
Korean War
India-Pakistan Wars
Gulf War 1
Balkans 1990s
Arab-Israeli wars
Post-Cold War modern

There's over 3000 in the catalogue, most a quid each, and always more to come, and I do sometimes do requests. A free sample list is A1A US Armoured Division 1944-45 is available:
https://www.wargamevault.com/product/84467/A1A-American-Armoured-Division-19441945?cPath=5776_5890

The idea being to give you enough data to buy the figures and vehicles you need for wargaming purposes. A lot of the early lists are generic divisions, but these days I write specific units with all their individual variations where they can be found. And once purchased, you get free updates for as long as the internet exists, as and when lists are corrected and/or updated.

https://www.wargamevault.com/browse/pub/3426/MicroMark-Army-Lists?src=browse3426

Mark

[sultanbev]

I thought they were garrisoning Italian coastal defences (those that existed by 1809) in order to free up the northern Italian field army and French units stationed there but same end effect. 


Neapolitans are only really needed for 1812-13 and their real moment of glory in 1815 I felt it was a stretch to push them as part of the core 1809 range 

Yes, true, some regiments were in Spain, the rest glaring at the Royal Navy in the Med, and biffing rebels and bandits in various places. The only unique figures they really need is a standard bearer with the prancing pony instead of an eagle, and 2-3 cavalry types (lancers in shako, cuirassiers in plain bearskin, hussars in shako I think), the rest are pretty much the same as French figures. But yes, an idle digression for now, 1812 Russian light cavalry and Opelchenie are far more glaring omissions that need filling first.

Mark

[Orcs]

Good luck with this. Looks like another excellent range.

I am afraid it's not my period, so I will decline.

Had it been biblical armies  I would have ordered a couple of armies

[Sandyfalkirk]

Hi

We need to get the word out.

I don't have time yet to check this all but I know I'm going to rant everything at some point so....


Count me in for 200 as a certainty.

I play GdB and like big battalions.... So will need hugels brigade, saxons, hessians, plus i want poles, especially lancers

Need to work this out later but at worst, simply add my £200 to what's most common

Let's do this


Just realised... You only need 50% by end of month.

So that's actually better. Put me down for £300

As you only need half now so all good.

[jaztez]

"We need to get the word out. "

Then do it lol.

Has anyone posted on the miniatures page yet?

[toxicpixie]

I've stuck it on my FaceAche painting page, but as about the only people who watch it are all on here it's probably redundant! I recently got some Risk figures for generic 10mm Nappies, but if/when I might supplement them with a few bits and bobs...

[Leon]

So that's actually better. Put me down for £300

Excellent, thanks for that!

Has anyone posted on the miniatures page yet?

There's a News Story going off to them tonight, as well as Wargames Website and then posts on a few of the other forums.  We've hit Facebook on our own page which then got shared about quite extensively by Womble67 which was great.  I'll be doing another round of shares this weekend as well.  And then finally I'll be popping it through to the magazines and asking them to put it on their sites/pages.

We sent a mailshot out to all the Forum members last night, so that should generate some interest over the coming days.

[Jesus]

Hello.
NSA1 8
NSA2 1
NSA3 1
NSA4 2
NSA7 1
NSA8 1
NSA9 2
NSA11 2
NSA12 2
NSA13 1
NDW1 8
NDW2 1
NDW3 1
NDW6 1
NDW7 1
NDW8 2
NDW9 2
NDW10 2
NDW12 1

[Zippee]

They are A4 downloadable organisation charts, covering Napoleonics through to modern. Not tied to any rules set, include:
Revolutionary Wars
Napoleonics (including mainstream stuff such as Indians, Ghurkas, US militia, Turks, Mexicans, Omanis, Chinese, Persians...)
random 19th Century conflicts
Franco-Prussian War
Russo-Japanese War
Satsuma Rebellion
Balkans Wars
Mexican war c1912 (forget what it's called)
WW1
RCW
SCW
WW2 (including some nuetrals)
Cold War 1950s-1989
Vietnam
Korean War
India-Pakistan Wars
Gulf War 1
Balkans 1990s
Arab-Israeli wars
Post-Cold War modern

There's over 3000 in the catalogue, most a quid each, and always more to come, and I do sometimes do requests. A free sample list is A1A US Armoured Division 1944-45 is available:
https://www.wargamevault.com/product/84467/A1A-American-Armoured-Division-19441945?cPath=5776_5890

The idea being to give you enough data to buy the figures and vehicles you need for wargaming purposes. A lot of the early lists are generic divisions, but these days I write specific units with all their individual variations where they can be found. And once purchased, you get free updates for as long as the internet exists, as and when lists are corrected and/or updated.

https://www.wargamevault.com/browse/pub/3426/MicroMark-Army-Lists?src=browse3426

Mark

Sounds interesting, I'm off to take a look . . .

[Zippee]

Yes, true, some regiments were in Spain, the rest glaring at the Royal Navy in the Med, and biffing rebels and bandits in various places. The only unique figures they really need is a standard bearer with the prancing pony instead of an eagle, and 2-3 cavalry types (lancers in shako, cuirassiers in plain bearskin, hussars in shako I think), the rest are pretty much the same as French figures. But yes, an idle digression for now, 1812 Russian light cavalry and Opelchenie are far more glaring omissions that need filling first.

Mark

LOL and there was me thinking that 1805-10 era Russians were vastly more vital 

along with backwards expansion of the Austrian and French ranges to suit 1800-05 and expansion of the Hessian/Saxon range into 1806-07 Prussian.

At that point I might concede that 1812 is due* 

*even I will accept that 1807 era Wurttembergers et al are fairly niche