Tuesday 7 February 2023

From MartinC: The Siege of Vienna [Historical Drama] (235 points)

 The Pitch

Imagine the wagon train have circled the wagons and the massed hordes of the Sioux Nation are swarming all over the settlers. As then reach their last round of ammo a bugle sounds in the distance and the 7th cavalry charges down the hill and routs the Sioux.

Now imagine that the battle takes place in 1683 and settlers are the Holy Roman Emperor and the citizens of Vienna. The massed Sioux hordes are massed Ottoman hordes. As the city is about the fall over the hill streams the Polish army of Jan III Sobieski, lead by the Polish Winged Hussars. They smash through the Ottoman army and end all Ottoman invasions, for ever. If you want we can stick in some love interest.

And so to the 10mm Polish Army


Polish Dragoons

Brightly coloured and tooled up

Cossacks

Some more Cossacks

The glorious winged hussars

And some more


side view to show the wings

3 artillery pieces

3 command stands

Finally a unit of Tartars, usually the enemy 

light cavalry so only 3 per stand

Scores on the doors

100 x 10mm cavalry = 200pts
3 x crewed cannon = 15pts
Historical Drama = 20
Total = 235pts


Hmmm, another 10mm project. Lovely stuff, Martin! 

Tamsin

24 comments:

  1. I was on the very hill they charged down last year . Nice job Martin

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  2. Very nice work. Small but beautifully painted

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  3. Great stuff Martin! We need an AAR of these lads at work.

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  4. Very nice, these! Looking forward to the Ottomans.

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  5. Very well done Martin what's not to love about Polish winged Hussars, Pendraken do some great stuff and you've shown them off nicely

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  6. Not sure I can be happy for this post being married to a descendant of the Ottomans here.. not sure I will survive that attack if I did 😅 But lovely work all around mate. And again always amazed at painting such small scale so well! Might have to give it a go again one day!

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    1. highly recommend 10mm, it's fun and cheap and you can play massive battles. Invaders should always be repelled. In defence of Ottomans and have a massive WW1 Turkish army that wins alot

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  7. Great stuff Martin, I look forward to the Ottomans!
    TomC

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  8. Love the cavalry, Martin! They look brilliant and colorful as only the Polish cavalry can pull off! The winged hussars are gorgeous!

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  9. Got to love any army with Polish winged hussars!
    Best Iain

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