From PeterD Bridges and 28mm SYW Battalion Gun 36points

Grenadiers de France and Nassau Prince Louis meet at a river crossing. 

After nearly three weeks of not posting, I finally have a couple of small items ready to go.  I've been distracted by the return of my wife after she spent a few weeks looking after her mum post surgery and then by the man flu.  The annoying thing is that I've got a number of figures and units almost complete but just didn't have the energy to get to them.

First up are two wooden railed bridges from Sarissa Precision.  These have been finished and in my terrain box for about a month.  Originally the plan was to post these as part of a larger group for the Water Feature bonus round.  But the rest of the larger group is still bare arse to the world without a lick of paint.  I could have posted these as a points grab with the bonus round but got hit with a case of self respect so figured they could go today,

As with all of the Sarissa kits I've assemble, these went together nicely and look like they'll work well on the table.  I went with a simple heavy wash paint job and some terraforming around the ends.

After working on Front Rank figures all challenge, these Perry's seemed very fine boned.  However, there is good precedent for slightly built French artillery corporals

Newly finished is this Perry gun and crew for my French SYW project.  Perry doesn't do any SYW stuff, but I've morphed and fudged several SYW units out of their AWI range (which is gorgeous).  These guys are sold as a French gun crew in fatigues with "Swedish" 4 pounder.  A quick check on the references showed that the Swedish 4 lber was used by the French as a battalion gun in the SYW complete, with the big crochet hook rammer/loader tool carried by the crew.  I've already got one serving as a Hessian battalion gun in the opposing army (this appeared in challenge 7 or 8), again there's history on the use of captured peices.  Also the fatigues look a lot like a SYW gun crew who've discarded their coats and are fighting in the sleeved waistcoats, complete with "pokalem" forage caps.  Three of the crew are artillerymen in their red waist coats and breeches, with the fourth being a borrowed infantryman from Tourraine regiment (featured in challenge 8) in blue waistcoat and white breeches.

It took me a while to work out that the bent back bit on the bottom of the rammer was not a heavy bit of Perry flash!

Battalion guns are an interesting problem for Lace Wars gamers, and various approaches exist to handle them.  In Honours of War for instance, no battalion guns are fielded but the infantry firing ranges and factors vary according to the presence of battalion guns.  These seems like a good idea for larger battles, but I'm more likely to field smaller forces and want to retain these guns.  The best treatment that I've seen so far comes from a set of BP scenarios available from Wargames Vault, where one piece is fielded per 3 battalions but they are "small" BP units with lesser firepower and stamina.  

I do love the movement in some of these Perry figures.  I almost want to block my ears against the upcoming boom.

Points wise the gun crew is pretty easy to tote up - 4 foot figures and a gun = 30  points.  Using the dimensions from Sarissa, my math puts each bridge at 15% of a 6" cube so two of them make  whopping 6 points.  I'm inching towards my 500 point goal with enough in progress to get me past the tape next week.

Nice looking bridges! You can never have enough,I really like your battalion gun and am entirely convinced by your sleight of hand, substituting AWI for SYW!
I agree on your points total,36 points it is!
All the best Iain