KenR - 28mm Prussian Landwehr - 161 points

 

These just missed the finish line last week, a little break from the Italian Wars sees me add another unit to my long term Plancenoit Project.

This is the 1st Battalion of the 3rd Neumark Landwehr forming part of the 13th Brigade of the 4th Corps at Waterloo. This is the 8th unit so far for that group, Prussian Brigades are not for the faint hearted !

The figures are of course 28mm and are from the Perry Miniatures metal range, a lot more expensive than plastics but the available options are shockingly bad compared to these, so I'd rather spend the extra brass on quality (in figures not tabletop performance 😉)

So the vital statistics are 32 figure unit on 4 x 8 figure bases, each base is 60 x 60 mm. 32 figures at 5 pts each give me 160 more plus one for the flag.

This is likely the last Napoleonic unit of the Challenge, I really want to get the Swiss Pike done before we close and I still have 96 to do, so that's priority. Last of the Spanish Cavalry next.

Nice looking Landwehr unit Ken, they have a suitably shabby campaign appearance to them.  My understanding is that by 1815 some Landwehr units had ben in the field long enough to become decent quality infantry.  I also remember hearing that a Landwehr unit was the first Prussian unit on the field at Waterloo.

KenR - 28mm Prussian Napoleonic Fusiliers (180 points)

 

Just to keep Curt busy, I've snuk another entry in during the free fire phase, the varnish is probably still not fully dry yet ! I've been working on a 28mm Plancenoit Project for a demo game (probably a couple of years away). All my existing Napoleonics are 15mm so I'm effectively starting from scratch.

This unit represents the Fusilier Battalion of the 10th Regiment of the Line (1st Silesian) and finishes off the Regiment with two other Musketeer Battalions. The unit has 32 x 28mm figures and are a mix of Perry Miniatures plastic and metal ranges. They are based 8 figures on a 60 x 60 base.

I started this unit with a single test figure prior to the Challenge beginning so I'll claim the First Circle of the Abyss for 20 points plus 31 figures at 5 points each for a grand total of 175.

I will be alternating between French and Prussian units during the Challenge and next up with be some French Foot Artillery.

Hope everyone has a great New Year and I'll see you in 2025 as part of team Thursday.

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An fine battalion of Prussians to put the boots to Old Boney and holiday in Paris. Great work Ken! 

(BTW, we count the figure plus the theme bonus so I've topped you up to 180 for this lot. It's all a part of the service here at Analogue Hobbies. :) )

- Curt

From DennisC 28mm Colonial British and 18mm Prussian Jagers (113pts)

Work has been keeping me from my usual pace (no longer WFH), but I've managed to finish off 2 units of 16 Prussian Jagers (64 pts 48 pts), and then switched gears and painted some more Colonial British (Hollywood british with the white pith helmets like in Zulu) 

10 regulars (50pts), 1 foot officer (5 pts, Michael Caine in his cape coming off the Cheetah hunt) and a mounted officer (10 points)

Nice work here Dennis. Some lovely painting overall here. Maybe a better/wider shot of everything would be helpful to see the full group of models, but some great close ups here on the Officers there! 

Also, I had to adjust the points slightly here. As we don't have a 18mm, just a 28mm and a 15mm section. So I put them closer to the 15mm, with an extra point per model for now as a compromise. As you had them set at 4pts, vs the 2pts that 15mm gives. So middle ground this time for 3 pts a model. 

113 pts for you here

Kyle

From MattW: Prussian Landwehr and skirmishers 200 points

 Prussian Napoleonic Landwehr and skirmishers

More additions to my Prussian army, a Silesian Landwehr battalion for my 1813 Prussian army collection along with a commander for my current WIP Landwehr regiment. Another regimental commander for next weeks entry another line regiment and finally some Prussian line skirmisher command which missed last week. The 28mm miniatures are from the elite miniatures range, as per most of my Prussian collection. 

 

Silesian Landwehr battalion, flag is somewhere in the post......

Landwehr regimental commander

Line battalion commander

line battalion skirmisher command

28mm miniatures x 36 foot @ 5 points =  180 points

28mm miniatures x 2 mounted @ 10 points = 20 points 

Total 200 points.

Cheers

Matt

Smashing work on these Landwehr and skirmishers, Matt. I'll look forward to next week's continuation of this project.

Tamsin

From MattW: Napoleonic Prussians (40 points)

 Napoleonic Prussian Landwehr and Fusiliers

As the current flavour at the club is Napoleonics' I have commenced the completion of my stash of Prussian Miniatures. These figures were from the Elite Miniature range which has a lot of character and I like when they are in big units as they have that movement and character of ranked units. I have two more battalions, a dragoon regimen, two hussar regiments and two batteries of guns to complete the stash. I do need to purchase another brigade so I can have a full division but they will be Calpe I think. 

Skirmish Fusiliers

Prussian fusilier skirmishers 

28mm miniatures x 8 @ 5 points = 40 points

total points = 40 points

cheers

MattW

OK, this is Matt's third entry of the day - there may be one more to come. Nice Prussians, mate!

Tamsin

From GrahameH: More of the same - 15mm Midianites & Prussian Napoleonics (940 Points)

 More of the same I am afraid but I have now finished the Midianites (Essex Miniatures)

The Midianites 

So first up the last of the Midianite Warbands. Two units, each of 30 figures. I have no idea why but I have always wanted this army and have had the figures for years. So really pleased that the Challenge has given me the opportunity to paint them. I do try to paint a small army for the Challenge each year, so this is this years army. 

Some bowmen (3 units each containing 18 figures)

Two units of skirmishing slingers (9 figures each)

And finally, for the Midianites my last camels (Hurrah!!). These will be added to the baggage

Midianites Points 

Warband (60 Figures) = 120pts

Bowmen (54 Figures) = 108pts

Slingers (18 Figures) = 36pts

Camels (7 Figures) = 14pts 

Total = 278pts

Napoleonic Prussian 

I thought I had nearly finished this army, but I have just purchased 32 more cavalry, purely because I liked the uniform! As they say armies are never finished. 

So, I have painted some cannon for the army. I painted the crew about a year ago, but the thought of painting some many cannons was rather off putting. However, all done now. 25 cannons of various calibre. 

 

Also five Limbers (AB Miniatures)

And of course more cavalry (all AB miniatures)

Cuirassier Regt.

A Uhlan Regt.

Finally, my favourite, the 2nd (Leib) Hussars. 

That is it for the Prussians. I need to decide which Napoleonics to do next. I dare say it will involve cavalry. 

Points 

25 Cannon at 4pts = 100pts

5 Limbers 9 Figures = 110pts ed:58pts

Cuirassiers = 32 Cavalry figures = 128pts

Uhlans = 32 Cavalry figures = 128pts

Hussars = 32 Cavalry figures = 128pts 

Total 594pts 

LOTR Men of Gondor 

24 Gondor Infantry 

Pts for Gondor = 120

I think that this brings this entries total to 992pts 

Friday Minion: Wow, awesome points bomb once again Grahame. The hordes of Prussian cavalry, magnificent, and your basing is most effective on them. 

On points, I think your tallies were right, except the limbers, that I scored as 15mm vehicles at 8 points a piece then added 2 points for each rider. I arrived at 940 points.

From MattW: Prussian Jagers and Schutzen (60 points)

Prussian Schutzen and Jägers

lacking in my Napoleonic Prussian army are my schutzen companies and Jagers, rectified this week with the addition of 24 figures. We have been playing Napoleonics at the club playtesting the new Perry Rules, the Prussian Napoleonic Jagers and schutzen will help combat the French hordes…. The miniatures are 28mm Elite Miniatures which gave a certain character and make up the majority of my Prussian 1813 army. More to come over the next five weeks 

Prussian Schutzen 

Prussian Freiwilliger Jäger from the 1st Silesian Regiment.

Points 28mm x 12 @ 5 points 

cheers

MattW

Brief, but beautiful! Nice work, Matt!

Tamsin

From GrahameH: Mixture of Stuff, but mainly 15mm (1447 Points)

Made it. My first post just in time (again). I am always impressed by the challengers who plan for this event every year, knowing exactly what they are going to paint, and have everything ready to go on the starting date. Although, I say every year that this time it will be different, I am going to plan etc, I never do. It may be because I always seem to be painting, having more opportunity to paint and collect rather than game. This, and I get bored easily, it seems every year, I am already in the middle of painting a number of armies. So it was this year, therefore, my first entry is a bit of a mish-mash. 

Early Republican Roman

These are 15mm Chariot Miniatures figures. This is not a new army but having watched the Yorkshire Gamers You Tube video I decided my army was too small. I am now down to the last few units, but below are some of the units I have managed to complete during the challenge.

These are Roman Hastati. There are 16 figures to a unit as I wanted to make them smaller than my usual units of 24 figures. Total Points = 64pts 

Next some Velites. I was really short of these as the army expanded, so I had to paint a further 39. Points = 78 

15mm Galatians (Museum Miniatures)

This wasn't a complete army, and I was going to get rid of it as I already had a Ancient Briton army, but I hate selling painted soldiers so I thought I just buy a few more units and use it as Galatians. I think that what the figures are supposed to be anyhow. 

Each unit is made up of 30 figures, as they warbands, so I add a few extra figures and put them on deeper bases. There are four units, the ones with white shields are naked fanatics (I have taken the picture of them at an angle to save their modesty and to try not offend anyone). Points 240

15mm Midianites (Essex Miniatures)

I decided that regardless of how much is currently I have on my painting table, I need something new to give my the feeling I had achieved something extra during this challenge. So having spent a couple of days going through my metal mountain (yes it is that bad), I decided that some camels could be fun. They weren't and I still have a few more units to paint. 

Anyhow the camels. Currently, I have painted one Scout unit (12 X Camels). These are camels with single rider (48 points). Then four units of 16 camels with 2 riders (although 3 on the units have a leader who is mounted on a camel by himself  (so that's 3 units at 94 pts and one unit at 96 pts). Points total 378 pts. Sorry about the pictures but surprisingly the sun came out in the UK and I didn't notice. 

The Foot Warriors. There are three warbands (30 figures each), a bow unit (18 figures) and a skirmish unit (9 figures). Points = 234

WW2 Italian Paratroopers . The "Folgore" Brigade (Battle Front Miniatures, and some 3D printed vehicles)

I really enjoy putting Rapid Fire units together in 15mm so below is part of the "Folgore" Brigade in North Africa. I had already painted the first Parachute Battalion so I have added another two Battalions, an Engineer Battalion, an HQ (vehicles are 3D prints) and 2 20mm AA vehicles (Battle Front), during the challenge. 

Para Battalion X 2 = each of 34 figures = 136pts

Para Engineers = 36 figures and 1 gun = 76pts

2 AA Vehicles, each with 2 crew = 24pts

HQ 2 vehicles and 3 figures 22pts 

Grand Total = 258pts 

Photos of the two Para Bns are first, which are much the same and the Engineer Bn at the end (has more flamethrowers).

Prussian Napoleonic (AB Figures)

I couldn't do the challenge without painting figures for my favourite period, Napoleonic. Not sure I made the right deciding a few years back to base my figures on General de Brigade units. They take ages to paint and are expensive to collect. However, once done I do like the look of them in their big units. Anyhow two Prussian Cavalry Units completed each of 32 figures. 

The first is the 3rd Brandenburg Uhlan Regiment and, the ones in a lighter blue coat, the 2nd Neumark Landwehr Cavalry (I had to replace some of the lances that broke off - the only problem I have with AB figures is lances, swords and bayonets are very delicate). 128 Pts 

Finally something different for me - Games Workshop Gondor Infantry 

Just fancied something different and these have been sitting on the shelves for years. A quick paint job, and another sneaky 60 points 

                            

Nearly forgot I also painted 3 tents for the Midianites (5pts)

So really finally I think that works out at 1205 points and a very big apology to the Friday Minion. SORRY. 

Friday Minion: Holy Smokes Batman, what have we here? This seems like waaaay too much maths for first thing in the morning, but I think we got there. 

It would be super helpful to my Friday morning minion brain to get the number of figures per scoring category claimed as a summary at the end of the post, because I came out with quite a different points tally. You can also break up your post into more than entry. 

I make this out to be:

15mm infantry 359 models x 2 points each = 718

15mm cavalry and gun: 141 x 4 points each = 564

15mm vehicles 4 x 8 points each = 32

28mm infantry 12 x 5 points each = 60

Half a terrain cube for another 10 points

=1384

That leave us to deal with the extra 63 camel riders, at say 1 point each, for another 63.

I make that a grand total of 1447 points.

Of these, I particular appreciated the desert war Italians, with excellent definition, colour choices and groundwork they're a great looking force. The ancients hordes are very nice too, particualrly those Galatians with their jaunty shields and those Prussian cavalry with all their fluttering pennants look wonderful. 

You may not have had a plan for the challenge, but you've made astounding progress this past month - what's next?