July 2011 - Page 3 of 4 - War Games Holiday Centre

People who play Napoleonics often tend to overlook the plentiful troop types in any particular army in my opinion. The French Chasseurs a Cheval of the line are one such unit. These were the largest formation of light cavalry in the French army with as many as thirty one regiments listed by 1811, although this had shrunk to fifteen by 1815. Even at this time they still far outnumbered the Hussars and lancers of the line, their light cavalry counterparts.

Chasseur a Cheval from the Connoisseur Miniatures range, a good solid figure, with plenty of detail.

These particular figues have been with the Wargames Holiday Centre for many years, originally painted by Doug Mason I believe with a hand painted standard, which can be seen just in the background.

Close up for the detail level.

I hope to bring more images to you over the coming months, with more cavalry of the Line.

Until tomorrow.

Important notice, the following weekends have been fully booked or have had the battle originally featured changed.

Shiloh – 22nd July, Fully Booked by the Austrian contingent, however they want to play…yes you guessed it, Waterloo.

Talavera – 7th October, has been fully booked and the featured battle changed to Goodwood in 54mm, (yes you read that right, 54mm all 420 square feet will be used, including the gaps, as the head Good ol’ Boy is creating board to go in the gaps) by the Good ol’ boys.

Borodino – 21st October, the weekend has been booked by the Loughton Strike Force members only. The weekend will feature the General de Brigade ruleset.

Recent game of our Waterloo anniversary.

That’s it for now.

More work from Doug Mason.

Belgian light Dragoons, from the Doug Mason stable, figures are heavily converted Connoisseur miniatures.

These are new additions to the Wargames Holiday Centre, there has been an enormous amount of interest in the Waterloo battle, fully booked for both official dates in our calendar, not too mention the weekend where the group wanted to play Waterloo instead of the scheduled battle! So these will prove to be a worthy addition.

British Life Guards connoisseur figures, painted and based by Doug Mason.

These were painted by Doug quite a few years ago, however you can see the layers here in the close up, helping create the fantastic view when they’re on the table top.

Great colours, still good after twenty years.

‘Til tomorrow

Well I decided to show off the new SHQ Mini’s I got for the France 1940 game. A German Staff HQ set.

We used this HQ set by SHQ Miniatures as the divisonal high command for the Panzer divisions for our 1940 game

They come with all the figures on the main base and also include the table oil drums to rest on and the map, the truck is from another range.

The set blends in nicely along with these anti-air 88’s all by SHQ Miniatures.

The crews for the 88’s are all SHQ Miniatures as is the equipment on the bases. Spent shells, wicker basket casing’s and ammo boxes. The HQ fits in nicely with the whole scene. I like the way each base has taken on it’s own appeal as it’s own small diorama.

More from our recent Vitoria game, this time one of the Guards battalions, fording the Zadorra in order to get to grips with the French quicker.

British Guards, painted and based by Dave Docherty of “One man and his brushes” fame.

These were originally done for the Waterloo anniversary, a finer addition to the Guards brigade, you’ll rarely find!

More tomorrow.