Epic Revolution, Part 14: British Army Command Base

The British Army commander inspects the position of his light infantry.

I initially planned to have all of my commanders mounted the same and decided - nah. I now will have an army commander for the British and the Americans mounted on a circular base with some extra figures. I am really surprised at myself for not doing this earlier as I have done this will all of my other massed battle collections.

One of the nice things about the Epic Revolution range is that most of the packs and boxes come with a few extra figures which give some options of the presentation of the units. For the above I've added an extra figure from the 71st Regiment (Frasier's Highlanders) and (see below) and extra infantryman from one of the sprues. The mounted general is the Warlord resin figure of Cornwallis and was painted based on Cornwallis.

The Army commander discusses the situation with the Hessian general.

Epic Revolution, Part 13: Continental Army Command Base

 I don't know what I was thinking when I was going to originally mount all of my commanders on the same type base. In games and collections where there is an army commander, 99.9% of the time I make the stands different sizes and different amount of figures for two reasons; too make them easily recognizable on the gaming table and because it looks cool.

The original basing.

The army commander is my interpretation of MG Nathaniel Greene. I've added a rifleman based on a display at the National Museum of the United States Army and a flag bearer based on specifically the reconstituted 2nd Maryland of the Continental Line.

General officers at this time did not have a personal flag; but heck, I needed to add one. The flag is Gostelowe standard #2. The Gostelowe Standard refers to a series of flags created by Major Jonathan Gostelowe for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, specifically a set of thirteen standards that included various designs and symbols representing the colonies. Whether all of the standards were issued the Continental Army is unknown but a fact is that Standard #7 belonged to the 3rd Virginia Regiment which was captured by Tarleton's forces after the Battle of Waxhaw, South Carolina, on May 29, 1780.

I sketched out the flag, scanned it and reduced it using PowerPoint. I had painted it by thinning out acrylic hobby paint to give it a weathered look but you can see that there are some black lines that I may have to repaint. I believe in the 3 foot rule or what does it look like at gaming distance and I do think it looks great at that distance.

I've been painting the commanders while I do the units. For the American War of Independence Division commanders (no such organization yet!) so all of the other commanders will be Brigade commanders.

Epic Revolution, Part 12: Light Company, 71st (Frasier's Highlanders) Regiment of Foot

A light company of the 71st (Frasier's Highlanders) Regiment of Foot lead the way and harass the Continental Infantry.

During the American War for Independence, the 71st (Frasier's Highlanders) was unique in that two battalions served in North America. It is a great unit to have on the tabletop as they fought in many major battles both in the Northern and Southern theaters.

Since the 71st had two battalions, they also had a two light infantry companies. It is rare to see light troops of the Highland units on the AWI tabletops and I, for one will remedy this! In fact, half of the converged light infantry unit at Cowpens were from the light companies of the 1/71st and the 2/71st.

The Highlander unit pack from Warlord Games Epic Revolution comes with 10 light infantry figures that are molder individually instead of the normal strips. My unit has 9 figures as one of the figures fell from a great height and was stepped on by a giant during recovery operations. Sad to say, repair was impossible. The figures are "Warlord Resin" which is superior to Warlord Games' first attempt with resin figures. They needed just a little bit of clean up with a hobby knife. I primed them (of course!) and attached them to old bottle caps for the painting process.

For figures this small, I anticipated that the diced band on the bonnet and their wings would be a challenge. Fortunately both are molded on the figures making this stage of the process doable. The unit pack also comes with six wood bases that are 60mm x 20 mm.

I will be also using the figures for One Hour Wargames and this is how they will deploy with stands back to back.

Now it's time for me to decide what unit to do next. Currently the American's have one Continental Line unit and one artillery gun while the forces of the Crown have one Hessian Musketeer unit and the now competed light company from Frasier's Highlander. I'm either going to do the 33rd Regiment of Foot or a unit of militia.