From Miles: 28mm French Line Infantry Battalion (151 Points)

As hinted at with my "Cold" bonus theme submission, my next entry is a 36 figure French Line Infantry Battalion in 28mm Scale.  The figures are Perry plastics and are all in a March attack pose. These figures are very easy to paint and I find them to work really well on the table.

This will be the 9th French Infantry battalion added to my little army.  Sadly it's been a few years since any of the lads have seen the table top.

Each figure is based on a 20mm square metal base which are then grouped into companies using magnetic 60x40mm bases.  I try to base all my 28's on single metal bases to make rebasing easy.

I base my French in three ranks of 12 and only allow the first two to fire, which given the rules advantages the french in melee but limits their musketry capability.  Their usual foes, the Brits are consist of 40 figure battalions in two ranks which advantages their musketry but limits melee.

As six of these figures were submitted as part of my "Cold" entry there are only 30 score-able figures here so this entry should net me 150 points.

My French force now consists on 9 Infantry battalions (8 line, 1 Guard), 5 calvary regiments and only 3 artillery batteries.  Hopefully the lack of Artillery will be remedied later on in this year's Challenge.

From Curt:
Ah, 'the beautiful game'... What a stonking unit of French Ligne - wonderful work, Miles. By your current count, I think you've gathered a fairly respectable French force over the past few years . Actually I've found that there comes saturation point in gaming in this scale as most tables can only accommodate so many 28mm units. I subscribe to Jim Purky's 'the rule of fours' in that a typical player can comfortably command four units within any game system (four battalions for a Brigade level game, four brigades for a Divisional level scenario, etc.) and after that it often starts to become a muddle as there is simply too much to process.  Miles, what rules do you use for playing Napoleonics? Black Powder? Lasalle?  There's so many titles out now that players are spoiled for choice (and Sam Mustafa's much anticipated 'Blucher' is due to be released in a few months, I think - my fingers twitch eagerly to get at copy of those) .