Tuesday 28 December 2010

British artillery (5)


This is my second batch of Saratoga campaign British artillery. This gives me 3 gun crews and the command stand shown here. The Royal Artllery crews engaged at Freemans Farm suffered at the hands of American riflemen. Lieutenant Hadden's detachment of 6-pounders was caught in open ground. Of the 22 men in the detachment only Hadden and 3 others remained unknotted by the time reinforcements under Captain Thomas Jones arrived. Jones and the 11 men who had arrived with him were soon casualties and the remnants of Hadden's battery had to retire, leaving the guns themselves to the Americans. Had den himself carried Jones to a log hut that was full of wounded, but Jones had been mortally wounded and died shortly thereafter. The officer and drummer are taken from the Perry standing Saratoga line command pack.

At the recent Freemans Farm game I played with Eclaireur we used a rule that prevented Hadden's battery from rallying off disruption points by virtue of remaining stationary in a game turn. The point behind this was to replicate the conditions in which the battery found itself on the day. Sure enough, the battery quickly took casualties from Morgan's riflemen without causing much damage itself. The deliberate targeting by the Americans of officers and specialists is something that rules should take account of. If British regulars receive plus modifiers on bayonet charges and firing etc, there seems no reason why they should not be disadvantaged by American targeting...

6 figures. Painted December 2010.



8 comments:

Christopher(aka Axebreaker) said...

Very nice Giles!

Cheers
Christopher

WSTKS-FM Worldwide said...

Hello there Giles,

Good looking figures! The gun carriage, in particular, is really eye catching.

Best Regards,

Stokes

Furt said...

Beautiful! Agreed the gun carriage puts our own ones to shame.

Frank
http://adventuresinlead.blogspot.com/

Ray Rousell said...

Very nice and very well painted!!

Doc Smith said...

Ah yes Giles, been waiting for some more of your sublime figure painting and you have not disappointed!

I love the gun carriages and the effect you got on them - really nice and defined.

Cheers,
Doc

JM said...

Very nice! Ditto on the gun carriage.

Bob Courtney said...

I'm loving the gun carriages! A color I cannot get right!
On another note,how many figures do you paint in one sitting?

Bob

Giles said...

Thanks for the kind comments, chaps.

Bob, I paint 6 or 7 figures at a time - I used to do that twice over the course of 1 week, but with young Hugo I can one only manage one lot.

Giles