Start of Napoleonic French

[Apoc]

Excellent, thanks so much both – ill stick with the Pendraken French limber then (in a lighter blue) for my next pendraken order.

[John Cook]

On page 11, there is another illustration with both Garde train and HA crew in their respective uniforms on a limber. But this slightly puzzles me as I didn't know that French HA limbers had provision for seated crew members. Fortunately, the Pendraken 1809 range limbers don't either so this shouldn't be an issue.
http://www.planete-napoleon.com/docs/Artillerie_de_la_Garde.pdf

I'm confident that picture is wrong.  There is a photo of, what purports to be, a French Napoleonic horse artillery limber with provision for seated crew, in the old Osprey booklet on Napoleonic artillery.  There has been quite a lot of discussion about this limber on various forums over the years and as I remember it was established that it is not Napoleonic limber and the inclusion of the photo was a mistake.  The French Gribeauval system limber, and used by the Year XI pieces, was of A-frame construction with a pintle to which the trail of the piece was attached.  It had no provision for either an ammunition chest, that was carried between the trail of the piece, or for seated gunners.  During the Napoleonic period, French horse artillery gunners were all individually mounted and foot artillery crews marched.  There was also a long two-wheeled ammunition caisson, towed by a similar A-frame limber but Pendraken don't make one of those yet. 

[Westmarcher]

Good stuff! 

[Apoc]

Been a while, picked up a few extra figures from Pendraken in person at Fiasco recently and have made progress on more line inf:



Cuirassiers almost done and working on hussars.

[fred.]

Welcome back!

Those figures look fantastic - great painting and a great a photo too, the black basing (which I assume is temporary) sets them off really well. 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Those are superb! 

[pierre the shy]

Lovely work Apoc, I'm sure they will serve well - en avant! 

[Techno 3]

Very nice !

[paulr]

      

[Corso]

Must not be tempted, must finish 6mm project first...

[toxicpixie]

They're great, really colourful but not over done, and pop nicely

[Roy]

Wow. Those look nice. 

[Orcs]

Warmaster had been rewritten as Warmaster revolution, by the fan base. they incorporated some of the rule principles from Warmaster Ancients. eg Close combat only lasts for two bouts within a turn. So if you destroy a unit you cannot keep charging onto the next unit again and again and roll up your opponent in one turn   

[Last Hussar]

I've got loads of the original Warmaster elves. Don't fancy doing them for me   

[Szymon]

Lovely Napoleonic figures!