Recently completed.....Foot Regiment, Cossacks and Polish Dragoons

Regiment of foot..

Cossack Moloitsy...

Polish Dragoons....

Reworking Pike & Shot foot regiments. (5).. the last batch.

 The fifth and final batch of three refurbished and reworked foot regiments completed...

Cavalry Engagement... Polish V Swedes

The deployment....

The Swedish...

the view of the approaching Polish...

The Polish.....

Action.... 

The polish move forward 

They charge and the Swedish counter charge....

The Swedish first line is engaged...

the centre Swedish regiment gets a drubbing and is finished and they rout..

the same things happens to the regiment on their left and they too rout...

The Swedish regiment on the right flank have seen off both the Polish light cavalry units, it falls back to re-group while supporting unit moves up to flank the Polish...

The Polish having disposed of the Swedish first line are now into the 2nd line...

A supporting Pancerni unit blocks the Swedish flanking movement...

One of the Swedish second line regiments is done for....

The Swedish second line collapses and the Polish pancerni pursue...

---oXo---

Notes:

Play testing some home-baked rules.

• Swedish cavalry could take on the Polish pancerni and easily deal with the Polish light horse.
• The Winged Hussars smashed their way through; a third line of Swedish may have given them problems, but the supporting pancerni would maybe make it difficult.
• I may need to reconsider some aspects of the rules.

Reworking Pike & Shot foot regiments. (4).. the fourth batch..

 Another three regiments finished (only three left to do ...)

Reworking Pike & Shot foot regiments. (3).. the third batch..

 The third batch of 3 units completed....

Reworking Pike & Shot foot regiments. (2).. the second batch..

 The second batch of three regiments finished. Two regiments of mostly my own home-cast figures; plus one comprising Sash&Sabre.

Reworking Pike & Shot foot regiments...

 The reworking of the Pike & Shot foot regiments is progressing well, 4 figures per base and extra musketeers.  I've finished three units so far ....

Re-organising and re-basing (2)... Dragoons and ....

 Some Sash&Sabre figurespainted up to fill the gaps; the new look for the dragoon regiments now completed....

Next out of the boxes for looking at is the artillery...

I could do with some more field guns, lego wheels and WSS plastic cannon parts

just the ticket 😀

I think I'll have enough now. I need to make a couple more limbers though....

Re-organising and re-basing...

I'm going through an exercise in re-organising my 17C collection; I'm re-basing some units as well and checking the storage used is properly labelled and uses the minimum number of boxes as possible.

Cavalry Basing

I have a number of cavalry units either singly based, or a mix of single and two figure bases. For simplicity I decided to make some movement trays for them out of thick cardboard...

The Croats are the first to benefit...

Pike&shot dragoons

Looking at what I'd done for dragoons I had mounted and dismounted versions; the dismounted getting some horse holders and the dragoons on single bases.

With my small game table, the mounted dragoons are hardly ever used; most games they are deployed. So I've scrapped the mounted units - some riders and all the horses will be used for some new units; the rest will head to the melty-pot of doom to be cast into some new figures. The new scheme is a small horse holder base and twelve dragoons on 2 figure bases (a few figures needed to fill the gaps are on order).

Pike&shot foot regiments

The existing scheme for foot regiment; its based in ones' and twos'; the number of musketeers is OK but would better with more...

I decided to have 4 figures per base and adding a couple of extra musketeers; the new look scheme

I've 15 regiments of foot to alter to the new scheme. I've cut all the cardboard bases ready for big foot shuffle.

Tatars - some more added ....plus reorganised...

 While doing some trial casts of new moulds for my Samurai,  I cats a few more horses and riders to make up 8 additional Tatars; some converted with green stuff for variety plus some new standards.

The new additions painted...

I revisited the large Tatar segban unit I had , and made them into a unit of 12 to be some sort of generic musket armed dragoon

I've reorganised the Tatars in to 4 units of 12 figures plus a command stand.