The second regiment of the Napoleonic Spanish collection has exited the uniform store.
The regiment, along with the previously displayed Toledo Regiment and the Numancia Dragoons, have been presented with their colours that were beautifully drawn and supplied by Adolfo Ramos.
There remains only one regiment of three battalions left to complete this first (1805-1808) phase of the Spanish Napoleonic Army.
The second phase that will carry the army through to 1810 by adding another nine battalions, a regiment of cavalry and maybe a couple more guns, will continue in February.
Terrific work again. Another nine battalions will turn this into quite a sizeable collection. Will you be using them as a stand-alone army, or in conjunction with your British? They are quite a challenge under most rule sets.
ReplyDeleteIt may even creep up another 10 battalions. The problem is that the Perrys make such a broad range and it is so tempting to do the part civilian dress figures, the Castopol regiment, then a light battalion, and the top hats...in goes on. The goal is to use them against the British prior to 1808, then with them 1808 to 1812. I have some ideas for costal operations - that will require the purchase of one or two of those flat boats of course.
DeleteExcellent work Mark, will be a lovely looking army :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Mark. The Spanish have been much easier than I anticipated. I have done a lot of Perry Napoleonics in the last year or two...you may have noticed...(mind you, you have punched through a few yourself) and I have struggled with some, but these are so elegant that they are a joy to work with.
DeleteGreat stuff Mark - I hope one day soon to be able to pit my Peninsular Brits against these guys - then have them as allies against the French! The coastal ops would be great - I am just reading a book called Actives's Measure by John Danielski where the hero is a British Marine officer and the first half of the book is a raid on a Spanish coastal town, defeat of the local French coscripts and the seizure of a French convoy of merchantmen - very inspiring ideas for a wargames scenario!
ReplyDeleteI have an idea fir a scenario based around an assault on a coastal fort that I am targeting for February or March next year.
Delete¡Gran trabajo, viva la España!
ReplyDeleteMuchas gracias, Phil!
DeleteMark, your Spaniards are beautiful! Smart looking army.
ReplyDeleteThank you Jonathan. They certainly were a smartly dressed army - although I suspect in reality the uniforms were patchy. Sad to dat but I have a feeling that common view on the table I will be their fronts as they retreat towards me rather than their backs as they advance toward the enemy.
DeleteSplendid Mark...
ReplyDeleteThe standards really bring the units to life...
It’s alwat the last thing I do...and to me it says finished.
All the best Aly.
I agree that flags maketh the unit. These are actually the first flags I have ever bought. In the past I have either used what is available on the web or drawn them myself. But this time I couldn't find good enough versions on the web and didn't have the references to draw all those fiddly provinicial coats of arms.
DeleteLovely looking unit, the white uniform and bicorne is very elegant and the flag is great,its funny but I also held out on printing/painting my own flags until I came to the Spanish (for the great Italian wars) when I succumbed to buying them!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Thanks Iain. I drew up all my flags for the ACW, Russo-Japanese, Franco-Prussian, Austro-Prussians, Ottoman and French in Egypt from scratch, but most of those are pretty straightforward object based designs. Those complex coats of arms are just too time consuming.
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