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Wider Wargaming => Batreps => Topic started by: FierceKitty on 14 August 2023, 08:54:14 AM

Title: Drake goes west...
Post by: FierceKitty on 14 August 2023, 08:54:14 AM
...in every sense. The English-Cimaroon-Hugenot-Jirajara allied force caused some damage to the settlement of San Miguel, but the Spanish clearly held the field by the end of the game. All figures Pendraken, church Leven.
Title: Re: Drake goes west...
Post by: FierceKitty on 14 August 2023, 08:57:29 AM
I think the runaway slaves who made a go of it had long enough to accumulate a few horses, but must have been sadly short of instructors. Anyway, the Spanish horse rode right through them. And the supporting archers. And a unit of calivermen under Drake himself....
Title: Re: Drake goes west...
Post by: FierceKitty on 14 August 2023, 08:59:53 AM
The pinnace Envy. I'm stretching credulity a trifle with the Jolly Roger, but there IS a reference to an English promise to the Cimaroons that they'd return, with the call to action being a black flag.
Navwar ship.
Title: Re: Drake goes west...
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 14 August 2023, 09:57:21 AM
Take it Lee was the Spaniards ?
Title: Re: Drake goes west...
Post by: FierceKitty on 14 August 2023, 10:13:13 AM
Of course.  :(
Title: Re: Drake goes west...
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 14 August 2023, 10:53:05 AM
Oops
Title: Re: Drake goes west...
Post by: paulr on 15 August 2023, 07:06:32 AM
QuoteTake it Lee was the Spaniards ?
QuoteOf course.  :(
:D
Title: Re: Drake goes west...
Post by: fred. on 15 August 2023, 07:09:09 AM
Good stuff. 

I recognise some but not all of the figures you have used for Drake's force, I will do a bit more digging through ranges as I have an English force for broadly this era.
Title: Re: Drake goes west...
Post by: FierceKitty on 15 August 2023, 07:27:37 AM
The Cimaroon foot - not photographed here - are largely from the pirate range, with a few Irregular Miniatures included. Some ancient Indians mixed with Plains Wars figures for American troops. Cavalry in sombrero from Pendraken 19th-century stuff. The rest are from the Elizabethan range. Pinnace Navwar.
Title: Re: Drake goes west...
Post by: fred. on 15 August 2023, 11:16:27 AM
QuoteThe Cimaroon foot - not photographed here - are largely from the pirate range, with a few Irregular Miniatures included. Some ancient Indians mixed with Plains Wars figures for American troops. Cavalry in sombrero from Pendraken 19th-century stuff. The rest are from the Elizabethan range. Pinnace Navwar.
Cheers. 

I've got a fair few of those in the lead pile - so will do a bit of rummaging.