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As a plan it works, I have 3 groups of Ebor wss Austrians painted and based, and will need to buy more as that is all I have.

Just finished off Merlin, Guinevere and Sitric Curse-spitter. Next up are some Saxon Warriors. 4 Groups of 6 required.

Shahbahraz wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 12:12 pm I can see they would be usable. But in the meantime, I will stick with the Flags ones, and I am going to NOT do what I did with AWI & Napoleonics, which was to buy four times more figures than I could ever use in a SP game. So a few groups a side is quite adequate. (Ha!)

Of course there are fewer troop types in the '45, compared to AWI and Napoleonics, so that probably helps.

Unfortunately, once you start researching, you find more and more different types on the Jacobite side. Royal Ecossais, Bagots Hussars, Fitzjames' Horse, etc. I am going to keep it simple to start with though.

I did the ‘45 using the High Bridge scenario a while back using Front Rank Jacobites and Foundry AWI/Pirates as newly recruited and therefore un-uniformed English recruits. Then I added a couple of units of Front Rank dragoons just because I could. And their pretty civilians because, well why not?

They lay in a box for a few years, then FoW launched their Jacobite KS and I thought ‘I don’t technically need more Jacobites but I would like more uniformed English and I find the Front Rank, while nice, a bit staid in pose for the Sharp Practice level of game and I’d like to encourage FoW to move onto the forces of repression so I’ll buy some more Jacobites’.

Then the English KS appeared and I ordered it and they are lovely figures but I didn’t think through the order properly so I’ll have to buy some more to fill out the units plus I’d also forgotten that Highlanders are in 12’s not 8’s so I need to buy more of them.

And this is how a project grows kids. I’m going to need a bigger box.

And of course, you will accidentally over buy Government forces, so then need more jacobites until you end up with more figures than troops that actually took part.

I am not going to overbuy on this one. It is going to be done using the FoW figs, SP scale and limited to a maximum of about 8 groups per side. That's enough for a decent SP game, and you can have a reasonable mix, plus the actual force sizes were tiny. It wouldn't feel right having loads of figures.

Shahbahraz wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 10:38 pm Unfortunately, once you start researching, you find more and more different types on the Jacobite side. Royal Ecossais, Bagots Hussars, Fitzjames' Horse, etc. I am going to keep it simple to start with though.

Well, if you're going to let all those foreigners join in, have a look at this, which I came across in completely unrelated research on the Clan MacLeod, who managed to be on both sides in the '45 (I'd never heard of Inverurie before, but it seems the sort of action that yours and LT's forces are ideal for):-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of ... rie_(1745)

Les Higgins British painted as the 3rd Bttn of the 9th Prussian Reserve Infantry Regiment.



I hope to get the rest of the unit finished by the end of the month.

MacLeods on both sides, despicable behaviour, they normally left such shenanigans to the McGregors!