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BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Mon May 24, 2021 8:36 am Have you 3-D printed a Bonnie Prince Charlie yet?

I want a Boney Prince Charlie to lead an undead army

cannot do any worse than the the real one did.

I don't think that he has that bad. He invaded England, got as far as Derby, where he realised that things were actually worse than in Scotland so he went home.

Yes, home to Italy leaving his supporters to be massacred while he lived in wealth and privilege.

Poncey little toad.

I need some more SYW British, Hanoverian, Hessian, Brunswicker and Prussian generals. The Eureka Prussian General selection (for the Hessians, Brunswickers and Prussians) is very limited, as they only do four mounted generals and two of those are Fred the Big and Zieten (who are essentially useless). I've therefore stuck an order in to Blue Moon for some generals. I've not bought any of their figures before. I hear good things about them, but their website only has unzoomable thumbnail photos, so it's hard to tell. I expect there will be another bloody Fred figure in the mix...

Nah, I already have two of them... One is one more than enough, but I also have a Fat Billy the Butcher. In fact I drilled a rather large hole up him this morning and impaled him on a piece of wire for painting.

Strictly speaking both are not necessary in a small scale skirmish like most of the rules I currently play, but then, it's a kickstarter, and the figures are really really nice... so I think I pretty much got everything other than the Irish Piquets.

Buff Redux wrote: ↑Mon May 24, 2021 1:01 pm I don't think that he has that bad. He invaded England, got as far as Derby, where he realised that things were actually worse than in Scotland so he went home.

Weak, entitled and indecisive. Militarily, you would say he had very little chance anyway, but vacillating between French, Irish and Scottish military advisers was never going to end well. A lot of deaths in a cause that never had enough active support, however many toasted over the water or drank to a mole.

I wonder whether the 1715 wasn't actually more feasible militarily. In 1745, with France fighting in continental Europe there simply wasn't enough support available, or no will to provide adequate support. Just a few romantics in the Ecossais and the Irish regiments. It makes you wonder if it would ever have been feasible to land a couple of regular French battalions at Leith.

It's the usual pattern - England (or in this case Great Britain) vs France, so the French stir up Scotland, promise aid that is never quite forthcoming in sufficient quantities, and sit back while the Scots mismanage the whole quixotic affair.

But it pulled cumberland and chunks of the british back from the continent, it was a win win for france.

Yep. That was the point I suspect, enough support to keep the British busy, not so much that it became embarrassing.

Anyway, the Flags of War figures are really lovely. Hopefully will post something about them as I get paint applied. But I have two platoons for Chain of Command 75% finished, so I'm trying to discipline myself to finish them first...

Buff Redux wrote: ↑Mon May 24, 2021 1:01 pm I don't think that he has that bad. He invaded England, got as far as Derby, where he realised that things were actually worse than in Scotland so he went home.

Stopped by a toll bridge, so the story goes.....