Sharpes -a story of a football hooligans rise through the ranks

Managed to get a lot of my Peninsular war British finished ,based on a certain TV series to take part

Harper & Sharpe leaving the pub

  in the Too Fat Lardies sharp practice rules .Figures amix of Brigade ,warlord and perrys ,building and movement trays by charlie foxtrot ,just need to add the name tags .

The Chosen Men -Hagman ,cooper,Harris,Tongue,Perkins and Kelly 

Sweet William and his Royal American Rifles

Hawkswill and a few of the South Essex

Hogan mounted and dismounted

Teresa

Major Dunnett

 A few more 95th 

Charlie Foxtrot -Pantile Hermitage

Finished the second building ,this time a hermitage and this one was easier  to build than the first ,fitted together in a few minutes (plus drying time) so easy as everything just fits together so easily .Probably buy a lot more of these I can see a full village making an appearance .

Charlie Foxtrot Pantile Buildings

In the past i have purchased lots of counters ,movement trays etc from Charlie Foxtrot and have sseen their buildings but thought they looked complicated,well I purchased 2 recently to use in my planned Sharps Practice games set in the peninsular .I started one last night and finished it today ,what asimple task it was ,the parts fitted together really well and following the instructions on the web site I think I made it look fairly nice . The kit is MDF and resin and includes aouple of optional bits and replacents for the fiddly mdd shutters .Will be making the second one this weekend and hopefully show them off together . 10/10

Pantile Building 3 with brigade figures for comparison

A return to the Peninsular

A nice Napoleonic game at a very busy   Sheffield wargames society , French v Spanish usung Brown Bess rules .Nice simple rules that allowed a big battle to be fought to completion in a couple of hours a French victory with lots of excuses from the spanish .

a trip to the peninsular

Tim Gow put on a excellent Matrix game  at Sheffield Wargames Society last night ,7 players taking the parts of famous or infamous characters from Napoleons excursion into Spain .Really good fun with us all having our own victory conditions whilst trying to capture ,keep and recapture Madrid ,an objective eventually won by the Spanish Iregulars ,with probably Wellington coming off worst .Myself I did ok as Murat my victory condition was staying a live with my reputation and hat collection intact ,which I did the small fact that I left Madrid in a hurry stopped me winning . Matrix games may not be for everyone but I advise everyone to try it once  , a bit like Marmite .

The Emperor keeps track of the seasons

while his stunt double inspires the troops 

My Victory conditions

The fabled city of Madrid

No that is not photoshopped its real and John was wearing it

95th Rifles

Another couple of test figures this time Brigade Models 95th riflemen again these will be used for Sharp Practice this time replaying the Sharpes TV series set in the peninsular ,I have the Brigade figures of Sharp ,Harper and the chosen men stored away in my lead pile .