Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Vendee Rebels completed

The Lancashire Vendee Rebels have been painted, varnished (gloss and matte) and based. Here they are, with their older Minifigs/GFI mates. A couple units of Blue Moon settler militia have been added as possible skirmish units. The skirmishers in the Vendee seem to have been taller, 18mm instead of the regular 15mm. This force, taken as normal units, would total 29 points as per the following list.

1 large unit of "Natives"  5 points
5 units of "Natives"         4 points each
2 units of  skirmishers     2 points each
total                               29 points

The "Native" troop type is fast, not great at shooting but tough in a hand-to-hand fight. This seems to represent the peasants of the Vendee, with their superior local knowledge of terrain, their mix of muskets, pikes and farm implements and their elan. I think this is a better troop type for them than the intended North American woodland Indians, often depicted in cinema and some war games as ferocious with tomahawks but poor shooters. The skirmisher troop type is a better depiction of the way they are said to have fought in historical accounts of period battles. But I digress. Some time in October we'll see how the Vendee "Natives" fare in the hedges of the bocage. And now for the Royalist Rebel peasants:




Thursday will see a rash of DBA games based on the swan song of the western Roman Empire. Stay tuned.

5 comments:

Jonathan Freitag said...

The Lancashire figures look a lot larger than true 15mm. Is that assumption correct?

vtsaogames said...

They match up well with the Minifigs/GFI and are smaller than the Blue Moon figures. Lancashire is coming out with a new line of Vendee rebels in 18mm. These are the old figures and I was lucky to get them before the new ones came out.

vtsaogames said...

I should say that other Lancashire figures I have for 1866 are indeed 18mm. That seems to be the way they are going. These are older figures.

Jonathan Freitag said...

I don't much care for the more recent 18mm figures (Napoleon in Egpyt, for example) but love the 1859/1866/1870 15mm figures. The infantry are some of my favorite 15/18mm figures for this period.

uiduach OB said...

Well done Vincent they are looking great.