WW1 French summer 1917

A nice contrast to my Germans and British for the same era. These are all Strelets figures


The infantry are all in summer uniform, organised in a platoon of 41 men, 2 sections of 9 men (including 2 bombers, but there was no one throwing grenades in the set!!) and 2 sections of 9 men (each with 1 chauchat and 3 VB)


The heavier support a Scheider 105mm


and a 155mm GPF


The artillery lacks detail, but is good enough for wargames purposes, the figures provided enough for the crews some loader teams and a couple of OP teams


I really had to have one of these after I found one at the Batterie Moltke on Jersey

WMMS 2020

Another great day out at WMMS and Andy and I ran a SOTCW game set as a German raid on the Imaginary state of Andrevia in 1943. I was heavily involved in the game and took very few pictures.




Thanks to Richard P, who made the harbour and port buildings some more pictures of the game
































Some pictures of the other games at the show.


































My booty.

Prussian & Lithuanian skirmishers

I sorted these out at the same time as the Polish commanders for Tannenberg, The Teutonic Prussian skirmishers came in small numbers along with the Zvezda Livonian Knights so I had to add a couple of others to make up the numbers. The Lithuanian archers are generic eastern European skirmishers based on the Zvezda Russian Knights, which also donated a commander.

English Men at Arms and Longbowmen

From the Strelets sets of the same names


The Men at Arms are the less useful set, but I found enough for two units. The rest will be mixed in with Levy, etc.


The Longbowmen are really nice and by adding a few figures from the Men at Arms, there is enough for four units, although I have only painted a couple

On the Workbench March-2020

Well, I'm behind on plan, but there's a lot almost finished, here's a picture.


I decided to get some of my medievals out of the way at the same time as the Teutonics, so I would spend less time overall spreading random colours across their costumes. So I will be working on

• 2 units of 16 WOTR Archers (almost finished)
• 2 units of 16 WOTR Billmen (almost finished)
• 1 unit of 8 Teutonic skirmishers (almost finished)
• 1 unit of 8 Lithuanian skirmishers (almost finished)
• 1 unit of 16 late Achaemenid Persian Kardakes (started)
To be started
• WW1 French infantry and gunners
• A brace of Russian T26 with antennae
• More late Achaemenid Persian

Plus I have to sort out forces/terrain etc for the SOTCW game at WMMS, hence the T26s

Teutonic order - commanders

Some commanders for Tannenberg, from Left to Right Von Wallenrod, Lichtenstein and Schwartzburg


Although I have found the banners for the commanders and their coats-of-arms there is nothing on the caparisons, so I have used a generic version with their coat-of arms paired with a black cross.