28mm French & Indian War Sharp Practice game 1

After a long wait for me I finally ,with all this isolation time , got down to a game of French Indian Sharp Practice...now I have adapted the rules slightly to accommodate my small 4x2 set up but nothing major and I really have been waiting ages to give this a go. Above you can see the set up ready for play.. The British deployment point is on the road to the very left of the picture and the French is in the trees to the very right. The scenario is a British position with block house defence and a French attack to take the position.

Below are the two sides and their relevant forces and deployment markers.

The game starts with the blockhouse garrison actually in position and the only troops actually on the board.

The first to deploy were the French skirmishers closely followed by the Marine s Canadian under control of their Officers...The British closely followed with both the Rangers and the Regulars deploying , but before anything could really happen we were all out for tiffin...

The next several rounds flew by quite quickly with both sides taking up positions and the final troops deployed , a good fire fight ensued with both sides witling each other down. The Marine Canadians seemed to be adding up the points of shock but never lost a single man.

Unfortunately for the British their regulars found themselves under heavy fire from two sides and had to rotate away from cover which was a bad move and saw hem really take a pounding . Also with some amazing dice numbers the blockhouse founds is numbers dwindling. Then suddenly the Rangers routed as the Marines moved in for the kill. The Marines finally lost their first casualties but it was too late for the British , who, at least managed a fighting retreat.

A really enjoyable game with some great game play. I think next time I will really get into the swing maybe and name the characters as it says in the rules. And maybe give the British a better chance...lol

More 28mm WWII Early French

Here we have some of the early war French sets that I have recently done for my friend John to add to his growing collection of WWII.

Below are shown some of the Warlord games Cavalry both mounted and dismounted. I have done these figures in the olive drab greatcoats of the period as apposed to the usual Brown as a distinction on the battle field for John and it seems to have worked ok.

These net set of pictures show the light artillery piece along with the Char B tank with markings from a Cuirassiers battalion supported by infantry. Again the figures I believe are from Warlord Games growing collection.

28mm French & Indian Wars Project ...update 1

Finally managed to have a look at the French Indian stuff that I have slowly bin adding to over the last year.

I cant believe that I didn't see the Sharp Practice rules earlier and I wouldn't have sold the lovely 1st Corp collection of stuff that I already had...but I suppose that's the way of the world. Above are some of the figures on the movement bases that I adapted for them.

Below are the British comprising of a 3 section unit of regulars with yellow facings and relevant Colonel ,Officers and Sgt. and a group of Ranger skirmishers. The figures for the regulars were some that I bought from e-bay and actually I don't know who makes them but I really liked the poses and they match in beautifully with my 1st Corps stuff, of which the units are finished off. The Rangers are a number of base campaign figures mixed with some simple conversions of 1st Corps figures with Front rank highlander heads which seem to work great. The Mounted Colonel is a Foundry Dragoon officer I had .but works OK for me.

Next, below we have our French regulars all done from the 1st Corps figure range including campaign look apart from the Colonel which again is an officer that I had ...and I think he's from Foundry's Seven Years War stuff. hey are done with blue facings. Along with them I have done two sections of Marine Canadian in all blue undress campaign look and these are done using figures from 1st Corps "courier de bois" set.

Others I have ready to add to these are British 60th Royal American , British Local Militia. French Regt. Dillon (don't care if not necessarily accurate I want French in red), a unit of Huron Indians and French local militia.