Okay I'm going to do it. I'll post later why. I was able to get the Continental Army Brigade from eBay for $5 (USD) below retail and free shipping (BWAH HAH HAH!). So what do you get? Per the Warlord Games website:
4 mounted Continental commanders
2 Continental small Militia regiment (120 soldiers)
1 Continental standard Militia regiment (80 soldiers)
1 Continental small Regulars regiment (60 soldiers)
1 Continental Artillery piece (1 cannon)
2 Continental tiny Cavalry regiments (8 cavalry)
1 Continental small Riflemen regiment skirmishing (15 soldiers)
Plus:
Plastic bases
Full colour British & Continental flag leaflet
Assembly & Painting guide leaflet
Did I mention a flag sheet?
British Colors: King's Color and Regimental Color for the 23rd (Royal Welch Fusiliers), 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot, 33rd (West Riding) Regiment of Foot, 44th Regiment of Foot, 63rd Regiment of Foot, and the 64th Regiment of Foot. A nice selection of Colors as it represents units that did a lot of fighting and gives you essentially one facing color each which at this scale can just represent generic units.
Hessian: Leibfahne (Colonel's Colors) and Ordinärfahne (Regimental Colors) of Fusilier Regiment von Knyphausen, Musketeer Regiment von Donop, Regiment von Mirbach, Grenadier Regiment von Rall, Musketeer Leib Regiment (Erbprinz) and Musketeer Regiment von Bose.
French: Colonel's Flag and Regimental Flag for the Regiment de Gatinais.
Americans: The Betsy Ross Flag, the Grand Union flag, General Washington's Headquarters Flag and five flags with the Striped Canton and a colored field. I think we got a little lazy with the American flags; then again, it is really hard to pin down which flags were actually carried. Washington's HQ flag is perplexing as there are no "HQ units" in the range but I look at it as a vignette project.
You get one frame of the Infantry sprue which can be used either for the British or the Americans. It gives you a nice mixture of very formal looking soldiers and some that are more less(!) uniformed. In addition you have options for how many standard bearers you want if you paint them as British.
Sigh. I told you I was catching up on water colors.
You get one artillery piece; note the extra heads for the British artillery that wore that type of helmet.
Uniformed infantry.
Less uniformed Infantry.
Here are the Militia sprues that include a mounted officer, 4 riflemen, 1 Continental dragoon, and 1 mounted infantry/militia cavalry. You get 4 frames in the box.
And of course enough base frames for all of the figures; here is what the frame looks like:
Yep. I now have three gaming projects to keep me quite busy.
What a steal Neil, must be the bargain of the year! Lot of goodies there, should make quite an impressive brigade when painted up.
ReplyDeleteAs mentioned previously, I can see the attraction although if I did get into the Epics, I would be reducing the footprint of the units - what they call one large regiment, I would turn into a brigade I think - and if needs be, add in extra command figures from another 15mm range (I know, Warlord claim to have invented a new 13.5mm scale all of their own, but I have seen the Napoleonic versions and they are near as dammit 15mm - and people are not all a uniform height, anyway!)
ReplyDeleteLook forward to seeing you get some of these painted up, Neil.
That’s one of the interesting aspects of the period as one “battalion” may be 300 men and another is 60. My units will be representative of forces; i.e, a militia unit will and can be several units. I have some old Minifigs and though chunkier seem to be the same height as the 13.5 mm!
DeleteSounds like an interesting story, and what a great project to have on the go!
ReplyDeleteThanks!
DeleteI bought the starter set, extra Hessians, British brigade, and guards. Almost finished painting them too! They look fantastic even with my ordinary painting. Flags go on next then I hope to be rolling dice next weekend. It *IS* a bargain way to get troops on the table in short order.
ReplyDeleteI concur and I’m having a blast rediscovering the period.
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