Manor House ?

Out for a bit of exercise this morning at the local 'car boot' sale, first table we came to had a rather nice pottery building for £1, so for that price it was off the table and into my bag. The roof is very well done, the timbering well set out -

After a little work it will make a nice addition to my wargame buildings stock. I think it would do as a village manor house.

Raid on the Pewsey Vale

'Scenario'

In order to build up his supplies ready for the siege of Wardour castle, Sir Warwick Hunt (parliamentarian commander); organises a raid on the rich farm land of the Pewsey Vale. The raiders will have to deal with a royalist outpost and hope they get away without the nearby royalist garrison at Pewsey arriving to intervene.

For Parliament: 2 regiments of dragoons; 1 regiment of horse; 1 commanded shot (musketeers)

For Ye King:
Outpost: 1 regiment of horse; 1 regiment of foot;
Reinforcements: 1 regiment of horse; 1 regiment of foot; 1 commanded shot (musketeers)

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'Battle Report'

The parliamentarian raiding force arrives on the edge of the rich farming area ....

Meanwhile the royalist outpost has been mustered for a review by the local garrison commander.

The royalists patrol the farmland area; its is a lovely day and they are not expecting anything

The parliamentarian raiding force fords the river with the wagons going over the bridge

The royalist patrol reports the presence of the raiding force; they are then told to ride off to alert the local garrison to send reinforcements.

The raiding force deploys to their forward positions, the carts move up towards the farms.

The royalists try to cross the bridge, they force back some dragoons only to come under fire from some musketeers and the other dragoon regiment.

The supplies are being loaded up from the first farm

The royalists now reinforced, attempt to cross the river for a second time ...

The raiding party continues loading up the supplies from the farms, one loaded cart is already on it way back..

The royalists are across the river, their superior numbers forcing back the parliamentarians

The parliamentarian musketeers after fighting the first royalist regiment of horse have broken and are being pursued, the rest of the raiding force is starting its withdrawal.

The royalist horse are in hot pursuit, their second regiment of horse starts to move to prevent the loading of supplies by the raiders.

One of the wagons crosses the bridge to safety, meanwhile another wagon is on its way to the bridge, the third is still being loaded

Its all over, the raiders make a run for it crossing the river, the royalist horse stop the third cart from getting away.

The royalist horse is blown after its pursuit and pulls up to rest; the parliamentarians move back towards Amesbury (and then on to Sarisbury) having captured enough supplies for their purposes.

A little update

The dismounted horse figure conversions are coming along rather slowly. I've done gauntlets, and delineated the back&breast. Belts and boots to do.

Have played a raid for supplies scenario, I've got to sort through the photos then I'll do a post, hopefully in a couple of days time.

Mortar

I saw a picture of the Drabant mortar on the OG UK website, well really need to have one if you are doing a siege. Nice little model for £9, castings were crisp and it fitted together quite nicely. Here it is painted up shown with some of my artillery crew figures.

Dismounted Horse (5) - 'Troopers' initial conversions

Two sets of 6 troopers, one set for each dismounted horse regiment. I have done two of each 'pose' with slight differences, such as heads. Figs are a mix of Irregular Miniatures and Romanoff with an assortment of heads, mostly Sash & Sabre. Next stage is green stuff for boots, belts etc.

More Dragoons ...

The second of my planned dragoon regiments is now finished. I had my table setup for a 18C 40mm game, so I thought I'd re-use the setup to pose the dragoons getting into position. Riding down the road ...

And deployed in front of the church ...

[figs: All Irregular Miniatures, some of the dismounted dragoons are converted musketeers.]

Dismounted Horse (4) - 'Officers on Foot'

To keep my dismounted troopers under control, officers are required. I started with the Irregular Miniatures pikeman without tassets figure; the heads have been replaced with S&S ones; then a sword (cast from a Prince August mould) was added to the open hand; finally sashes and boots added with green stuff.

Then a little painting session, and here they are ...