Historical Miniature Wargames
This is a list of the uniform colours of Spanish Militia and Provincial Grenadier battalions in May 1808. It is based on a scan of a primary document I found on the website of the Ciudad Real tourist board, and I have translated (imperfectly, I’m sure) the main table here. Most of the battalions are dressed (at least temporarily) in brown …
Since our sponsor, Fantasiapelit, moved to a new location last month we lost our club space. Luckily we were able to band up with another band of like minded gentlemen gamers, Stadin Strategit and with the increased membership, together we were able to rent a twice as big club room than what they had previously. Certainly a change of pace …
My Spanish 1808 army has many small one-off units. One of these intriguing formations is the lancers that fought at Bailen “Los Garrochistas de Utrera”. This unit is fascinating as it was raised from the mounted bull-fighters, and they wore their normal work-gear into battle. I ordered a bag of Battle Honors Spanish Lancers BSP9 for these troops, but unfortunately …
In my earlier posts I’ve shown pics of the units built around the excellent 15 mm Battle Honours figures by Tony Barton. This post covers some of the Old Glory and Blue Moon figures I use for my 1808 Spanish.
My latest project has been a 15 mm Spanish Army for the early years of the Peninsular War, and I hope you find these notes useful. You can read about my infantry here, this post is a brief note about the cavalry figures I’ve used. The paintwork is still lacking some details – especially the hussars would benefit from having …
15mm Finnish Artillery. The smaller bronze guns up front are Navwar Austrian 3pdrs and the crew as well as the 6pdrs in the back are from Old Glory with the exception that the Savo Artillery Company (the ones in grey uniform) are from Essex.
A 1808 yard base (and separate loose buildings) that PetriH did with a 15mm command base to show scale.