Battle near Ziegenfeldt...

Saxe-Jarlsberg have sent a small probing force through the hills into the Hoflandt, their presence was detected and a similar sized force of Wittenberg troops now faces them near the town of Ziegenfeldt.

The Wittenberg commander examines the deployment of the Saxe-Jarlsberg troops and gives the order to advance...

Both sides advance slowly....

As they close the artillery opens fire with little effect

As the infantry move into musket range, the cavalry engage on both flanks....

The advancing Saxe-Jarlsberg infantry receive fire and men go down...

They return fire and then slowly move forward to push of pike...

The Wittenberg cavalry win on one flank........

The Saxe-Jarlsberg cavalry have the edge on the other flank .....

The infantry are now fully engaged in the centre..... neither side can gain an advantage...

The winning Wittenberg cavalry don't pursue and move round the back of the engaged infantry ...

The Wittenberg cavalry lose on the other flank .....

however the Saxe-Jarlsberg cavalry pursue them and then move on to pillage the baggage....

The Wittenberg cavalry attack the Saxe-Jarlsberg infantry in the rear.....

Its all over, the remaining Saxe-Jarslberg infantry run for it .....

A victory for Wittenberg

More Registered Cossacks ....

Recently completed another unit of registered cossacks ..

Cossack War Wagons (WIP)

Finished building 6 cossack war wagons for my 40mm collection (made from cardboard, hibachi skewers and Lego wheels). Finished off with mounts for swivel guns made out of plasticard. 

I have enough Lego wheels 

Cossack Artillery...

some artillery crew for the cossacks, with a couple of small field pieces

Registered Cossacks ....

Dug out some cossacks I cast in June this year; these are now painted as some registered cossacks to join the Polish army ...

Another unit of cossacks in progress on the painting desk...

Regiment of foot for Wittenberg ...

 A 'yellow' regiment of foot for Wittenberg, using the flags shown in the previous post. 

Next in the painting queue are some registered cossacks for my Polish army.

Making flags....

 I needed some flags for the next foot regiment I'm working on, I've been using some from a booklet on the Saxon TYW army - the chosen flags did not scan very well so I printed them out on 160gm paper to use as templates to paint over.  An afternoon of something like 'painting by numbers', very therapeutic.

The large versions will be scanned in, cropped, reduced and flags made to printed about a third of the size of the painted originals.